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03.30-31.2026

10th Cities & Development Conference

The Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy—in partnership with the World Bank, International Growth Centre, and George Washington University—convened researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to connect academia with policymaking for rapidly growing cities.
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We intend to be one of the leading places in the world for cities-related research, and events like this, featuring world-class researchers presenting their work, are part of building that.”
Professor Nathaniel Baum-Snow

02.03.2026

Trajectory of Power: The Rise of the Strongman Presidency

Deans William Howell and James Steinberg examine how the rise of the administrative state set the stage for a strongman presidency—and what, if anything, can be done about it.
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“All this precedes Trump. All this involves dynamics that have nothing to do with his vanity or his impulses…. The starting point for us is with the progressive period more than a century prior.”
Dean William Howell

09.17.2025

Reimagining Government for a New Era

On Constitution Day, Senator Maggie Hassan and a bipartisan panel ask whether 20th-century government can still deliver for 21st-century Americans.
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“Right now, in our politics, we are too often presented with a false choice between defending a status quo that certainly hasn’t worked for many Americans for some time and engaging in a zero-sum politics that spends most of its time tearing things down rather than building things anew.”
Senator Maggie Hassan