The Trump administration aims to radically improve government efficiency. As Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy prepare to launch their initiative, Harvard Kennedy School experts lay out what possibilities and perils lie ahead.| www.hks.harvard.edu
By combining cutting-edge research, the teaching of outstanding students, and direct interaction with practitioners, we have an impact on solving public problems that no other institution can match.| www.hks.harvard.edu
A champion of leadership education at HKS, Gergen leaves a lasting legacy as a political analyst, adviser, and leadership mentor.| www.hks.harvard.edu
A message from Dean Jeremy WeinsteinDear Harvard Kennedy School Faculty, Students, Staff, and Fellows,It is with deep sadness that I write to let you know that David Gergen has passed away after a long illness.| www.hks.harvard.edu
For most of the 20th century, inequality in GDP per capita between UK regions – while not insignificant – was relatively low by European standards (Rosés and Wolf 2018). In the 1980s and 1990s, however, regional economic inequality began to rise in most industrialised economies (IMF 2019). The UK stands out for how far this has developed: by the 2010s the UK had become one of the most regionally unequal of the world’s industrialised economies| www.hks.harvard.edu
The “3.5% rule” refers to the claim that no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilized against it during a peak event. In this brief paper, author Erica Chenoweth addresses some of the common questions about the 3.5% rule, as well as several updates from more recent work on this topic.| www.hks.harvard.edu
Robert D. Putnam is the Malkin Research Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, having retired from active teaching in May 2018. Raised in a small town in Ohio, he was educated at Swarthmore, Oxford, and Yale. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of the American Political Science Association.| www.hks.harvard.edu
Erica Chenoweth is the Academic Dean for Faculty Development and the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School, Faculty Dean at Pforzheimer House at Harvard College, and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute.| www.hks.harvard.edu
As Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing and Civil Society at the Kennedy School of Government, Marshall Ganz teaches, researches, and writes on leadership, narrative, strategy and organization in social movements, civic associations, and politics. He grew up in Bakersfield, California where his father was a Rabbi and his mother, a teacher. He entered Harvard College in the fall of 1960. He left a year before graduating to volunteer with the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project.| www.hks.harvard.edu
