Danielle Allen

Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard and Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Her latest book is Justice by Means of Democracy.

Forget Fusion, Look to Alaska!

Open primaries and ranked choice are better paths forward.

  • Danielle Allen

In Defense of Federalism

The U.S. federal system is flawed as it currently operates, but it is not destined to be unjust.

  • Danielle Allen

Danielle Allen’s final response

  • Danielle Allen

What Is Education For?

Above all, preparing students for civic and political engagement.

  • Danielle Allen
with responses from
  • Carlos Fraenkel
  • Deborah Meier
  • Michel DeGraff
  • Debra Satz
  • Lelac Almagor
  • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
  • Lucas Stanczyk
  • Rob Reich
  • Clint Smith

Danielle Allen Response to Ferguson Forum

The problem today is racial domination, not exclusion.

  • Danielle Allen

Toward Participatory Democracy

We cannot be free without being equal.

  • Danielle Allen
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