Making Change When Change is Hard: the Law, Politics, and Policy of Social Change

Harvard HKS

How does social and political change happen? When, why, and how do people, and whole nations, come together to influence large-scale policies and collective action on issues like the environment, equality, criminal justice, and much more? Why do revolutions occur? This course attempts to answer these questions by exploring a diversity of efforts to achieve societal change across various historical and contemporary contexts. In an effort to draw general lessons for those interested in making…