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2019 State of Digital Transformation
In June of 2019, the Harvard Kennedy School hosted digital service teams from around the world for our annual State of Digital Transformation convening. Over two days, practitioners and academics shared stories of success, ... -
The 2021 Digital Services Convening
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2022-03)This year’s convening marked the fourth Digital Services Convening jointly organized by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Public Digital, a disruptive digital trans- formation consultancy. ... -
Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, City University of New York: Innovations in American Government Award Case Study
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2022-01)Social and economic mobility are at historic lows in America, while entrenched racial inequality cotinues to erect barriers. Research suggests that education is critically important to enable economic mobility, particularly ... -
American Democracy: For Whom Does the Death Knell Toll?
(Harvard University, 2018-08)American liberal democracy, once a model throughout the world, is in crisis. The most obvious symptom of this malaise is a paradoxical attitude that pervades an underprivileged section of the population that, against its ... -
American Indian Self-Determination Through Self-Governance: The Only Policy That Has Ever Worked
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2022-12-15)In testimony before the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children on December 15, 2022, Joseph Kalt, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Emeritus testified about the ... -
An Analysis of the Council of Arab Economic Unity's Arab Digital Economy Strategy
(Harvard University, 2019-12)David Eaves, Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS), was engaged by the Council of Arab Economic Unity (CAEU) of the League of Arab States to conduct a critical review of the CAEU’s Arab Digital Economy ... -
Antiracist Institutional Change in Healthcare
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2023-03)Systemic racism is deeply embedded in U.S. healthcare and economic systems and remains pervasive in social policies and organizational practices that perpetuate oppression of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) ... -
An Approach to Small-Scale Mixed-Methods Experimentation; Transparency for Development, Phase 2
Faced with a promising but complex intervention, how can further refinement be evaluated? The typical approach is experimentation. Rigorously evaluated experimentation, for several centuries the province mostly of medicine ... -
The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission: One State's Model for Gerrymandering Reform
(2019-09)Independent redistricting in practice has proven remarkably successful along several dimensions. This policy brief outlines key lessons learned from redistricting in Arizona, a state with a five-person independent redistricting ... -
An Aspirational Path for American Conservatism
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2023-09)In this working paper, Stephen Goldsmith and Ryan Streeter argue that the Republican Party is philosophically adrift, and it has been for a while. This is not only bad for the Party’s political future but bad for the country ... -
Assembling China's Carbon Markets: The Carbons, the Business, and the Marginalized
(Harvard University, 2016-06)China is in the process to establish its national cap and trade program to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Besides the top-tier market design (cap-setting, auction rules, etc.), Chinese policymakers need to pay attention ... -
BenePhilly, City of Philadelphia: Innovations in American Government Award Case Study
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2022-01)The American social safety net exists to meet needs for: unemployment assistance, supplemental money for food, help with health care costs and medical expenses, and more. However, the process of signing up for these services ... -
Best Practices for the Governance of Digital Public Goods
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2022-04)“Digital government” is becoming simply “government.” As a result, an ever-increasing number of systems and processes critical to the operation of government—the core infrastructure of a state—are being digitized. This ... -
Building a Democracy Machine: Toward an Integrated and Empowered Form of Civic Engagement
(Harvard University, 2016-06)Dozens—and possibly hundreds—of online platforms have been built in the past decade to facilitate specific forms of civic engagement. Unconnected to each other, let alone an integrated system easy for citizens to use, these ... -
Can China Reduce Entrenched Poverty in Remote Ethnic Minority Regions? Lessons from Successful Poverty Alleviation in Tibetan Areas of China during 1998-2016
(Harvard University, 2017-06)In this paper Holcombe discusses lessons from successful poverty alleviation in Tibetan areas of China during 1998–2016. In the period between 1978 and 2015, the World Bank estimates that over 700 million people have been ... -
Case Study of 21st-Century Civic Engagement: Code for America and the City of Boulder, CO Partnership
(Harvard University, 2016)The City of Boulder and Code for America partnered on “Housing Boulder,” the community engagement process that would inform Boulder’s 2015/2016 Housing Action Plan. While this case study documents our work on a housing-related ... -
China's Most Generous: Examining Trends in Contemporary Chinese Philanthropy
(Harvard University, 2020-03)This annual report highlights leading results from the most recent data analysis of the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center’s China Philanthropy Project, capturing over one-quarter of estimated national giving in China. We ... -
China's Most Generous: Understanding China's Philanthropic Landscape
(Harvard University, 2016)The growth of new wealth is one of the most important, far-reaching, and captivating aspects of change in modern China. Traditions of benevolent societies, clan-based giving, temple association support, and voluntarism ... -
China’s Role in Promoting Transboundary Resource Management in the Greater Mekong Basin (GMB)
(2020-03)This paper examines how China can improve transboundary resource management within the Greater Mekong Basin (GMB) through its participation in the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC). Such improvement would ensure the efficient ... -
Chinese Regional Planning Under Xi Jinping: The Politics and Policy Implications of the Greater Bay Area Initiative
(Harvard University, 2021-04)This paper seeks to explain the logic of Chinese regional planning pertaining to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区 , hereafter GBA) and the challenges it entails for spatial development. Three questions ...