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Lessons from Leading CDOs: A Framework for Better Civic Analytics
(Harvard University, 2017-01)A Chief Data Officer (CDO) can lead a city or state toward greater data-driven government. Data-driven executive leadership in government is relatively new, with just over a dozen cities and a handful of states having named ... -
Like a Fish in Water: An Essay on the Benefits of Government That Nobody Notices
(Harvard University, 2017-08)Debates over the role of government — often phrased as “big government” vs. “limited government” — are at the center of our political life. We debate the government’s role in health care and in regulating the environment. ... -
Local Governance and Access to Urban Services in Asia: A Policy Brief
(Harvard University, 2018-11)This policy brief explores how democratic processes in local governance affect access to urban services in Asian cities, especially for marginalized groups. It is based on research conducted by a group of national research ... -
The National People's Congress: Functions and Membership
(Harvard University, 2015-11)From time to time, the attention of the media in the United States and around world turns to China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), typically around the time the NPC meets in March. This paper is intended to provide ... -
Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, State of Ohio: Innovations in American Government Award Case Study
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2022-01)Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD), Ohio’s Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agency, is responsible for providing employment-related services to eligible individuals in Ohio to help them achieve their employment ... -
Pathways to Economic Advancement, Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Innovations in American Government Award Case Study
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2022-01)Adult English learners (ELs) are as likely to find jobs in the U.S. labor market as those who speak English fluently. There are significant differences, however, when it comes to salary, job quality, and professional ... -
Policy Memo Regarding the Allocation of COVID-19 Response Funds to American Indian Nations
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2020)The COVID-19 crisis poses an immediate threat to three decades of improvement in economic conditions across Indian Country. Federal policies of tribal self-determination through self government have gradually, if unevenly, ... -
The Power of Peer-to-Peer Connections: Breast Cancer Straight Talk Support Facebook Community
(Harvard University, 2019-03-07)The Project on Transparency and Technology for Better Health was established to conduct comparative case studies on platforms that empower patients through information to provide an inventory and typology of initiatives. ... -
Prioritizing Public Value in the Changing Mobility Landscape
(Harvard University, 2020-01)In this paper we will look at the values and goals cities affect with policies concerning connected mobility, and how to create a new framework that aligns with these objectives. First, we identify the transformative changes ... -
Proceedings: Getting to Eighty Percent: A Symposium Advancing Voter Participation
(Harvard University, 2018-05-03)At the core of the work of the Ash Center and the Kennedy School is the effort to understand how citizens and institutions come together to make democracy work, and rarely before has the importance of this effort been more ... -
Public Narrative and Its Use in the Stand Up with the Teachers Campaign in Jordan (QMM)
(Harvard University, 2020)This report presents and discusses the main findings of the case study on the “Stand up with the teachers’ campaign”supported by the organization Ahel in Jordan, carried out in the framework of the Narratives4Change research ... -
Rakhine State - In Need of Fundamental Solutions
(Harvard University, 2017-02-24)Religious conflict in Rakhine state threatens the development of Rakhine state and even the stability of Myanmar. In the paper, the author reviews recent 2014 census results and other data that show no long-term increase ... -
Rakhine State Policies: Considerations for the New State Government
(Harvard University, 2016-10)Religious conflict in Rakhine state threatens the development of Rakhine state and even the stability of Myanmar. In the paper, the author reviews recent 2014 census results and other data that show no long-term increase ... -
Rakhine State: Dangers and Opportunities
(Harvard University, 2017-02-01)The paper provides an updated assessment of the danger that the Rakhine state conflict poses to all of Myanmar in terms of cost in lives, international reputation, depressed FDI, ongoing violence and sectarian conflict. ... -
Recommendations for Allocation and Administration of American Rescue Plan Act Funding for American Indian Tribal Governments
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2021)The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provides the largest infusion of federal funding for Indian Country in the history of the United States. More than $32 billion dollars is directed toward assisting American Indian nations ... -
Reflections on a Survey of Global Perceptions of International Leaders and World Powers
(Harvard University, 2014-12)A recent survey asks citizens from 30 countries for their views on 10 influential national leaders who have a global impact (see Appendix). There are many rich findings among the data. However, two general trends stand ... -
Replicating Urban Analytics Use Cases: Conceptual Shortcomings, Implementation Challenges, and Recommendations for the Field
(Harvard University, 2019-01)At a 2016 meeting of leading municipal analytics practitioners and experts at the Harvard Kennedy School, Johns Hopkins GovEx’s then-director of advanced analytics, Carter Hewgley, assessed the opportunities for analytics ... -
Risk Mitigation and Creating Social Impact: Chinese Technology Companies in the United States
(Harvard University, 2021-04)Chinese technology companies have become a topic of interest to not only the business and investor communities but also increasingly the national security and intelligence communities. Their scale and level of innovation ... -
Something Has Cracked: Post-Truth Politics and Richard Rorty's Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism
(Harvard University, 2018-07)Just days after the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, specific passages from American philosopher Richard Rorty’s 1998 book Achieving Our Country were shared thousands of times on social ... -
Strengthening Models of Civic Engagement: Community-Informed Approaches to Inclusive and Equitable Decision-Making
(Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, New America, 2022-07)For too long the federal policymaking process has been mysterious and inaccessible to everyone but the most sophisticated, elite stakeholders. Not only has this made the policymaking process exclusive to long-standing ...