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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A new paper in the Congressional Budget Office’s Working Paper Series, authored by Randall Akee—Director of the Project on Indigenous Governance and Development and Julie Johnson Kidd Professor at Harvard Kennedy School—along with his co-authors, draws on long-term administrative data to examine how immigrant workers’ earnings in the United States evolved between 1981 and 2021.
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Why did regime change take place in only four Arab countries and why has democratic change proved so elusive in the countries that made attempts? This book attempts to answer those questions.
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In this study, Archon Fung and Stephen Kosack assess the current state of transparency initiatives across the globe. Honing in on interventions with a focus on “transparency for accountability”—which show mixed results—they develop a framework of five “worlds” that helps account for the variation in outcomes.
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