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Data-Smart City Pod: Driving Racial Equity through Data and Mapping
AshCast - March 17, 2021 12:00 - 14 minutesIn the second episode of Data-Smart City Pod, Professor Steve Goldsmith interviews Elana Needle, the director of the Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative at the Latino civil rights organization UnidosUS. The Anchor Collaborative is a collection of national, multi-racial organizations that advances...
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Citizen Ballot Initiatives: A New Tool for Election Reform
AshCast - March 08, 2021 17:51 - 1 hourThe last several years have seen the growing and successful use of citizen-initiated ballot initiatives to win major election reforms. Some of the most successful, well-funded, and engaging campaigns have had unlikely initiators: small groups of everyday Americans fed up with waiting for someone...
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Political Geographies of the Populist Right
AshCast - March 01, 2021 17:20 - 1 hourSupport for populist right-wing parties and candidates has increased considerably across the globe in recent years. In addition to this overall rise in support, receptiveness towards the exclusionary, reactionary rhetoric and policies of Bolsonaro, Trump, Modi or their European counterparts all ...
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Myanmar After the Coup
AshCast - February 24, 2021 17:00 - 1 hourThe February 1st coup launched by Myanmar's military effectively put an end to the country's tentative transition to democracy as civilian political leaders were imprisoned and the results of the 2020 elections annulled. On Friday, February 19th, the Ash Center hosted a discussion titled Myanmar...
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Data-Smart City Pod: Improving Life in Southern California with GIS and Data
AshCast - February 24, 2021 12:30 - 15 minutesIn the first episode of Data-Smart City Pod, Professor Steve Goldsmith talks with Rex Richardson and Darin Chidsey, respectively the president and chief operating officer of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). They discuss SCAG’s regional data platform, one of the most int...
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Election Legislation in the States: Moving Forward or Backward?
AshCast - February 22, 2021 16:44 - 1 hourThe 2020 elections hinged, in dramatic ways, on widely varying state laws and state election procedures. Major changes were made in light of the pandemic, to expand options for mail-in and early voting and to Election Day itself. These changes engendered strong support and strong opposition, and...
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Can We Break Out of the Two-Party Doom Loop?
AshCast - February 18, 2021 14:00 - 1 hourThe January 6 Capitol insurrection shows that the United States is facing exceptional challenges to our democracy. Lee Drutman, Senior Fellow in the Political Reform Program at the New America Foundation, thinks that our two-party system is a root cause of that dysfunction. Although we have had ...
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Coming Soon - The Data-Smart City Pod
AshCast - February 17, 2021 19:46 - 1 minuteNew from the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Data-Smart City Pod brings on top innovators and leading industry, academic, and government officials to discuss data, innovation, and government. This podcast serves as a central resource for cities and individuals interested...
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State Capture
AshCast - March 01, 2020 03:27 - 1 hourMost Americans pay little attention to the massive number of elections that occur at the state level every year. Yet cumulatively, a party's success in state-level races across the country can produce major shifts in policymaking and governance. That is precisely what has happened in the US sinc...
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Deliberative Democracy and Urban Policy Design in Buenos Aires
AshCast - February 28, 2020 21:26 - 54 minutesIn recent years, Buenos Aires City Government has set out to become a more inclusive and sustainable city, with a priority of serving the city's most vulnerable populations. The Housing Authority of the City of Buenos Aires has designed an innovative Socio-Urban Integration Plan which makes focu...
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Getting Out the Intersectional Vote: What Do Black Women Voters Want?
AshCast - February 26, 2020 18:01 - 1 hourOn Thursday, November 21st, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, and the Harvard Kennedy School Black Student Union hosted a discussion about the results from the 6th annual "Power of the Sister Vote” survey and how...
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Political Brands
AshCast - February 26, 2020 17:20 - 57 minutesFrom 'I Like Ike' to MAGA hats, branding and politics have gone hand in hand, selling ideas, ideals and candidates. Political Brands, the new book from Ciara (Chara) Torres-Spelliscy, is a unique exploration of the legal framework for the use of commercial branding and advertising techniques in ...
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From the Archives: Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project's Truth and Transformation Conference 2019
AshCast - October 21, 2019 04:00 - 45 minutesInstitutional Anti-racism and Accountability (IARA) Project's Erica Licht, HKS MPA Candidate, sat down with Justin Freitas and Addys Castillo from People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) after the 2019 Truth and Transformation conference to talk about PISAB’s innovative approach to st...
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