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2015

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Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

Mar 18, 2015

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…

Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

Nov 30, 2015

Customer-Driven Government: How to Listen, Learn, and Leverage Data for Service Delivery Improvement

This post by Jane Wiseman, originally published by Data-Smart City Solutions, is based on her recent paper in an ongoing series published by Data-Smart City…

Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

Nov 15, 2015

Customer-Driven Government: How to Listen, Learn, and Leverage Data for Service Delivery Improvement

This post by Jane Wiseman, originally published by Data-Smart City Solutions, is based on her recent paper in an ongoing series published by Data-Smart City…

Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

Jun 16, 2015

Cambridge Concludes its Inaugural Participatory Budgeting Effort

This post by Derek Pham continues our coverage of a new participatory budgeting (PB) initiative in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Residents were given the opportunity to decide how to allocate $500,000 between…

Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

Oct 25, 2015

Improving Service and Communication with Open Data: A History and How-To

This post by Emily Shaw, originally published by Data-Smart City Solutions, is based on her recent paper in an ongoing series published by Data-Smart City Solutions exploring data-related facets of civic…

Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

May 12, 2015

Democracy and the Challenge of Affordability: An Evolving and Expanding Definition of ‘Public’ Housing

This post is the fourth in a month-long series of blog postings on affordable housing as a challenge to the health of American democracy, and in particular…

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Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

Jun 2, 2015

The Future of Democracy in the Arab World: Reform Versus Revolution

This post was originally published by the Harvard Kennedy School on June 2, 2015. Doug Gavel interviews the Ash Center’s Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Associate Professor of International Relations at Harvard…

Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

May 19, 2015

Harvard Kennedy School Students Tackle the Future of Policing

This post by HKS student Pamela Lachman recounts a recent series of events she and other students organized at Harvard Kennedy School. Experts came together with 100+ members of the HKS community in facilitated conversations…

Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

Jun 22, 2015

First Chapter: Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy by Darryl Pinckney

Below is an excerpt from the introduction to Darryl Pinckney’s 2014 book, Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy. On November 3, 2014, Pinckney spoke about Blackballed at the Ash Center as…

Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

Sep 15, 2015

Making Ballot Initiatives More Voter-Friendly and Deliberative

In this post Sam Feigenbaum, Legislative Aide to Massachusetts State Representative Jonathan Hecht, offers a first-person account of local efforts to bring Citizens’ Initiative Review to Massachusetts. First developed in…

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