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Through our books, case studies, journal articles, papers, and surveys, the Ash Center is home to some of the world’s most advanced research and publications on issues related to democratic governance and self-governance.

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Policy Brief

Paradise Revisited: Technology Has Enriched the Lives of Americans with Novel Communication Choices. It Has Also Made It More Difficult to Reach Everyone in Emergencies.

A new policy brief by Mary W. Graham, senior fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, assesses the weaknesses in the emergency warning systems during Paradise, California’s 2018 wildfire and explores the strategies employed in the aftermath to strengthen information dissemination within the community.

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Bridging-Based Ranking
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Policy Brief

Bridging-Based Ranking

This report explores the potential of bridging and discusses some of the most common objections, addressing questions around legitimacy and practicality.

PROTESTS UNDER TRUMP, 2017–2021
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PROTESTS UNDER TRUMP, 2017–2021

The Trump presidency featured a high volume of contentious mobilization. In this research article, the authors describe the collection and aggregation of protest mobilization data from 2017 to 2021 and offer five observations.

How AI Fails Us
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Policy Brief

How AI Fails Us

Researchers and funders should redirect focus from centralized autonomous general intelligence to a plurality of established and emerging approaches that extend cooperative and augmentative traditions as seen in successes such as Taiwan’s digital democracy project to collective intelligence platforms like Wikipedia.