Browne-Marshall, Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Author of the forthcoming “A Protest History of the United States” Cornell William Brooks, Hauser Professor of ...

Join us for an online event exploring the current state of democratic decline in the United States and the efforts of pro-democracy advocates to combat it. Steven Levitsky, co-author of How ...

Archon Fung. Archon Fung, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, was recently asked to give ...

It’s a term people love to throw around but can’t always define: conflicts of interest. Conflicts of interest pervade public service and jeopardize the quality of government action by degrading ...

For example, activists can ask their base several questions, collect responses, and then use AI to categorize and prioritize them. Instead of manually reviewing and analyzing thousands of responses, ...

During the 2024 presidential campaign in Venezuela and the political process building up to it, a team of Venezuelan political and social activists started experimenting with the development of ...

Around the world, democratically elected leaders are subverting the very institutions that brought them to power, gradually eroding checks and balances to undermine democratic norms. During what many ...

The Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development’s Honoring Nations program is pleased to announce the selection of 18 semifinalists for the prestigious 2025 Honoring Nations awards.

Historically, voter confidence has been tied to election outcomes. If the Republican candidate won the presidency, then Republican confidence rose while Democratic confidence fell, and vice versa (see ...

Join the next GETTING-Plurality Research Workshop with Sheila Jasanoff as she discusses her recent paper “Sovereigns and Subjects in the Digital Age.” Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of ...

People power movements are those in which large segments of society engage in collective action to demand greater political freedom and democracy. In other words, people power is about people. It ...

Building effective channels for the interaction between AI developers and activist communities is critical for innovating social mobilization and strengthening civil society. Building active channels ...