First Chapter: How Organizations Develop Activists by Hahrie Han

Below is an excerpt from the first chapter of Hahrie Han’s 2014 book, How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century. An Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley…

First Chapter: The Loneliness of the Black Republican by Leah Wright Rigueur

Below is an excerpt from Leah Wright Rigueur’s 2015 book The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power. An Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard…

What’s Your “Deep Story?”

When Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley Arlie Hochschild came to speak at the JFK Forum in March, she sparked a conversation around the idea of “deep stories” — the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and the values we share. In this post, Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow LaGina…

First Chapter: Why Elections Fail by Pippa Norris

Can Trump Win the Global Swing States?

by Niruban Balachandran and Vikram Janardhan

A Good Night for Small “d” Democracy

By Archon Fung

A snapshot of how Italians feel today

This is the second post in a series authored by Gaia van der Esch based on an article…

170 Years Ago in Seneca Falls New York, Voting Was a Radical Idea