Platforms, Networks, and New Power Technology’s Impact on Politics, Policy, and Elections Today, the rules that technology companies use to govern content on their platform are far-reaching and poorly understood. Nonetheless, the size and scale of these s ...

Platforms, Networks, and New Power Technology’s Impact on Politics, Policy, and Elections Today, almost all essential information is stored online. Everyone from scammers to nation-states are engaged in a constant battle online, and the 2016 election demo ...

Mark D. Gearan has been appointed Director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard Kennedy School, Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf announced today. Gearan will begin at the IOP in March. “At Harvard we believe in the power of public service to ...

Platforms, Networks, and New Power Technology’s Impact on Politics, Policy, and Elections The internet has opened, accelerated, and shifted how Americans engage with everything. Anthea Watson Strong has been at the forefront of civic engagement for over a ...

Using Local Government to Create Systemic Change: Building Your Values Into Government Conversations about Big Ideas are crucial to shaping thought, but in local government – as anywhere- one must use the tools one has at hand to make change happen. Tools ...

A Mayor for Change: Tackling National Issues at the Local Level How do we come together to have the difficult conversations necessary to make change? What does it mean to be a committed ally? In her Crooked Media podcast “With Friends Like These,” Ana Mar ...

There will not be a study group this week.  IOP Spring 2018 Resident Fellow Betsy Hodges There will not be a study group this week.    Event types:  Study Groups Location:  HKS-FDR L-163 ...

A Mayor for Change: Tackling National Issues at the Local Level  A Conversation with Executive Director of TakeAction Minnesota Dan McGrath. What does it look like to organize on a local level? Local organizing has been especially important for electoral ...

A Mayor for Change: Tackling National Issues at the Local Level Every elected official is a human being, and every elected official has to govern regardless of personal comfort or convenience. In Nov. 2015, Jamar Clark was shot and killed by members of th ...

A Mayor for Change: Tackling National Issues at the Local Level A Conversation with Democratic Strategist Tracy Sefl, who serves on the Board of Directors for RAINN In April of 2017, before #MeToo was a viral hashtag, Mayor Hodges publicly disclosed that ...