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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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Citizen Voices, Community Solutions: Designing Better Transparency and Accountability Approaches to Improve Health
(Harvard University, 2017)The Transparency for Development (T4D) study was designed to answer the question of whether a community-led transparency and accountability program can improve health outcomes and community empowerment, and, if so, how and ... -
Civic Responsibility: The Power of Companies to Increase Voter Turnout
(Harvard University, 2019)This case study provides an analysis and evaluation of the implementation of civic participation programs by companies aimed at increasing voter turnout. The United States consistently lags behind the majority of developed ... -
Cooperative Procurement: Today's Contracting Tool, Tomorrow's Contracting Strategy
(Harvard University, 2018-10)Increasingly, governments across the country are turning to cooperative procurement for greater value. Joining with other entities can significantly reduce administrative costs and leverage the benefits of economies of ... -
Crisis Communications for COVID-19
(Harvard University, 2020-04)Communication with employees, customers, investors, constituents, and other stakeholders can contribute decisively to the successful navigation of a crisis. But how should leaders think about what they are trying to say ... -
Crisis Management for Leaders Coping with COVID-19
(Harvard University, 2020-04)In the face of the rapidly evolving coronavirus crisis that demands many urgent decisions but provides few clear-cut cues and requires tradeoffs among many critically important values, how can leaders and their advisers ... -
Dissecting the US Treasury Department’s Round 1 Allocations of CARES Act COVID‐19 Relief Funding for Tribal Governments
(Harvard University, 2020-05)This study dissects the US Department of the Treasury’s formula for distributing first-round CARES Act funds to Indian Country. The Department has indicated that its formula is intended to allocate relief funds based on ... -
Effectively Managing Connected Mobility Marketplaces
(Harvard University, 2020-02)As new innovations in mobility have entered the marketplace, local government leaders have struggled to adapt their regulatory framework to adequately address new challenges or the needs of the consumers of these new ... -
Electricity Supply, Demand and Prices in Myanmar - How to Close the Gap?
(Harvard University, 2014-12-04)Myanmar has much less electricity per person than most Asian nations and also has a lower share of households getting grid power than its neighbors. While the supply of electricity has begun to rise in recent years, the ... -
Engaging Citizens: Participatory Budgeting and the Inclusive Governance Movement within the United States
(Harvard University, 2016-01)This paper provides a brief overview of the genesis of participatory budgeting and its current incarnations in the United States. It situates the participatory budgeting process within a larger context of civic innovation ...