Proceedings: Getting to Eighty Percent: A Symposium Advancing Voter Participation
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Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Institute of Politics
Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
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Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Institute of Politics, and Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. "Proceedings: Getting to eighty percent: A symposium advancing voter participation." Ash Center Policy Briefs Series, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2018.Abstract
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 evident. Underlying the deceptively simple idea of making democracy work are a number of large themes: protecting the fundamental norms of democracy and democratic processes from challenges both in the United States and internationally; encouraging innovation in governance and public accountability; preventing the massive inequalities of our economic system from permeating our democracy and threatening its existence.Indeed, one essential element of “making democracy work” in the United States is to have as close to full and inclusive participation of the people who comprise our democracy as we possibly can. The name of our May 3rd symposium, “Getting to 80 percent,” was chosen with intent; while a goal of 80 percent participation is achievable, it will require a real stretch—not tinkering around the edges of the current system, but instead pursuing a major set of innovative ideas and practices.
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