Join Manfred Elfstrom, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow, AY16-18, for a discussion about how rising labor activism is transforming the Chinese state in a contradictory manner. Specifically, Elfstrom will show how, under sustained pressure from below, the government is increasing its ability to control citizens, while at the same time saddling itself with new social commitments.

Lunch will be served.  

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Join the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy's Inequality and Social Policy program for a discussion with Maya Sen, Associate Professor, Harvard Kennedy School. This event is co-sponsored by the Race and American Politics series. 

Race and American Politics is a multidisciplinary series of seminars and roundtable conversations led by ...

Join the Ash Center and Center for Public Leadership for a discussion with Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of How Democracies Die. HKS Academic Dean Archon Fung, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, will moderate. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies, will provide an introduction.... Read more about Book Talk: How Democracies Die

Join us for a discussion with Jargal Dambadarjaa, economist and media personality, about the democratic transition in Mongolia following the first multi-party elections in 1990. Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard University and the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, will moderate. Anthony Saich, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, will provide an introduction.... Read more about Lessons from the Democratic Transition in Mongolia: 25 Years After Revolution

You are invited to join a lunch conversation with Bruce Katz, Centennial Scholar and Founder, Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution for a discussion of his newest book, The New Localism: Innovative Solutions for Prosperous Cities. ...