August 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, on income…
Synopsis: Recent years have seen extensive debate in popular commentary about a pervasive ‘cancel culture’ thought to be taking over…
Historian and vlog faculty member Alexander Keyssar shares insights from his new book “Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?”
August 3, 2020, Paper: "A great deal of research presents the correspondence between economic conditions and incumbent electoral fortunes…
As our revived national conversation on race has made clear, the legacies of slavery and white supremacy run wide and deep in American…
August 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Stephen Ansolabehere, the Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government at Harvard…
Since the first generation of deliberative democratic theory, and the ‘deliberative turn’ in the 1990s, many societies around the world…
Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that…
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This month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reconsecrated the Hagia Sophia — a UNESCO world heritage site and museum — as a house of…
July 9, 2020
Three of Harvard Kennedy School’s leading scholars on democracy, social movements, disinformation, and communications…