Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Brooks, Arthur. "America’s Crisis of Civic Virtue." Journal of Democracy 35.2 (April 2024): 23-39.
Fung, Archon, David Moss, and Odd Arne Westad, eds. When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Chenoweth, Erica. "The Democratic Necessity of Reckoning." The Review of Politics 86.2 (Spring 2024): 238-241.
Fung, Archon, and Sean Gray, eds. Empowering Affected Interests: Democratic Inclusion in A Globalized World. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, and Michael Hankinson. "How the Identity of Substance Users Shapes Public Opinion on Opioid Policy." Political Behavior 46.1 (March 2024): 609-629.
Rodrik, Dani. "How to smooth US-China economic relations for the benefit of the global economy: A light model of global economic governance." Journal of Government and Economics 13 (Spring 2024).
Norris, Pippa. "“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold”: fractionalized and polarized party systems in Western democracies." European Political Science (31 January 2024).
Clark, Chelsey S., Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Sean J. Westwood, Maya Sen, Neil Malhotra, and Stephen Jessee. "Effects of a US Supreme Court ruling to restrict abortion rights." Nature Human Behaviour 8.1 (January 2024): 63-71.
Obolensky, Marguerite, Marco Tabellini, and Charles Taylor. "Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates." NBER Working Paper Series, January 2024.
Allen, Danielle, Sarah Hubbard, Woojin Lim, Allison Stanger, Shlomit Wagman, Kinney Zalesne. "A Roadmap for Governing AI: Technology Governance and Power Sharing Liberalism." Ash Center Occasional Paper Series, January 2024.
Norris, Pippa. "Big Little Election Lies: Cynical and Credulous Evaluations of Electoral Fraud." Parliamentary Affairs 77.1 (January 2024): 1-24.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "How International Relations Theory on Norm Cascades Can Inform the Politics of Climate Change." PS: Political Science & Politics 57.1 (January 2024): 36-39.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin. "The Electoral and Policy Effects of Election Timing in City and County Government." December 23, 2023.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin. "Where the Sidewalk Ends: How Participation Contributes to Inequity in Basic Government Service Provision." December 23, 2023.
Mansbridge, Jane. "The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis." International Political Science Review (December 21, 2023).
Palmer, Maxwell, Benjamin Schneer, and Kevin DeLuca. "A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure." Political Analysis (December 13, 2023): 1-16.
Allison, Graham. "Graham Allison: How Henry Kissinger Shaped My Life." The National Interest, December 1, 2023.
Kizilova, Kseniya, and Pippa Norris. "'Rally around the flag' effects in the Russian–Ukrainian war." European Political Science (2023).
Dancy, Geoff, and Kathryn Sikkink. "The Data of Transitional Justice." The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice. Ed. Jens Meierhenrich, Alexander Laban Hinton, Lawrence Douglas. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "Envisioning a U.S. Foreign Policy of Restraint." DAWN: Democracy for the Arab World Now, November 9, 2023.
Kissinger, Henry A., and Allison, Graham. "The Path to AI Arms Control." Foreign Affairs, October 13, 2023.
Linos, Elizabeth, Jessica Lasky-Fink, Chris Larkin, Lindsay Moore, and Elspeth Kirkman. "The Formality Effect." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-009, January 2023.
Robb, Katharine A., Michelle LaPointe, Kathryn Hemsing, Grant Anderson, James Anderson, and Jorrit de Jong. "Inter-city collaboration: Why and how cities work, learn and advocate together." Global Policy (September 2023).
Besley, Timothy, Anders Jensen, and Torsten Persson. "Norms, Enforcement, and Tax Evasion." The Review of Economics and Statistics 105.4 (July 2023): 998-1007.
Jefferson, Hakeem, José Luis Gandara, Cathy J. Cohen, Yanilda M. González, Rebecca U. Thorpe, and Vesla M. Weaver. "Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States." Annual Review of Political Science 26.1 (June 2023): 1-32.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Diana Da In Lee, Yamil R. Velez, and Christopher Warshaw. "American Local Government Elections Database." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-013, September 2022 (rev. June 2023).
Ang, Desmond. "The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate." American Economic Review 113.6 (June 2023): 1424-1460.
Rozema, Kyle, Daniel Epps, Adam Chilton, and Maya Sen. "The Endgame of Court-Packing." Washington University in St. Louis School for Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series, May 4, 2023.
Alsan, Marcella, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva, and David Y. Yang. "The Health of Democracies during the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment." AEA Papers and Proceedings 113 (May 2023): 572-576.
Nye, Joseph S. Soft Power and Great-Power Competition. Springer Singapore, 2023.
Tomkins, Sabina, Keniel Yao, Johann Gaebler, Tobias Konitzer, David Rothschild, Marc Meredith, and Sharad Goel. "Blocks as Geographic Discontinuities: The Effect of Polling-Place Assignment on Voting." Political Analysis 31.2 (April 2023): 165-180.
Holdren, John P. "Priorities for Norway’s Chairmanship of the Arctic Council." Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Press Release, March 31, 2023.
Cohen, Joshua, and Archon Fung. "Democratic responsibility in the digital public sphere." Constellations (March 2023): 92-97.
Power, Samantha. "How Democracy Can Win: The Right Way to Counter Autocracy." Foreign Affairs 102.2 (March/April 2023): 22-37.
Hadley, Stephen J., Peter D. Feaver, William C. Inboden, and Meghan L. O'Sullivan, eds. Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
Krook, Mona Lena, and Pippa Norris. "Promoting gender equality in elected office." Handbook of Feminist Governance. Ed. Marian Sawer, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jacqui True, Johanna Kantola. Edward Elgar, 2023, 161-173.
Norris, Pippa. "Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality?" Political Studies 71.1 (February 2023): 145-174.
Gonzalez, Yanilda, and Lindsay Mayka. "Policing, Democratic Participation, and the Reproduction of Asymmetric Citizenship." American Political Science Review 117.1 (February 2023): 263-279.
Bonica, Adam, Adam Chilton, and Maya Sen. "The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-020, January 2023.
Allen, Danielle. "Democracy versus Republic." Democracies in America: Keywords for the 19th Century and Today. Ed. D. Berton Emerson and Gregory Laski. Oxford University Press, 2023, 17-23.
Alsan, Marcella, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva, and David Y. Yang. "The Health of Democracies During the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-004, January 2023.
Dunford, Joseph F. Jr., Graham Allison, and Jonah Glick-Unterman. "Guardians of the Republic: Only a Nonpartisan Military Can Protect American Democracy." Foreign Affairs (January 5, 2023).
Adler, Paul S., Amr Adly, Daniel Erian Armanios, Julie Battilana, Zlatko Bodrožic, Stewart Clegg, Gerald F. Davis et al. "Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Global Retreat of Democracy: A Curated Discussion." Journal of Management Inquiry 32.1 (January 2023): 1-18.
Cohen, Dara Kay, Danielle F. Jung, and Michael Weintraub. "Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective." Comparative Politics 55.2 (January 2023): 239-261.
Chenoweth, Erica, Zoe Marks, Matthew Cebul, and Miranda Rivers. "Youth and LGBTQ+ Participation In Nonviolent Action." USAID, January 2023.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin and Michael Hankinson. "How the Identity of Substance Users Shapes Public Opinion on Opioid Policy." Political Behavior (2022).
Aiyar, Yamini, Rolf Alter, and Linda J. Bilmes. "Challenges of effective governance for sustainable development at subnational government levels: introduction to this thematic issue of Public Sector Economics." Public Sector Economics Journal (December 2022): 456-458.
Martínez Orbegozo, Eva Flavia, Jorrit de Jong, Hannah Riley Bowles, Amy Edmondson, Anahide Nahhal, and Lisa Cox. "Entry Points: Gaining Momentum in Early-Stage Cross-Boundary Collaborations." The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 58.4 (December 2022): 595-645.
Kalt, Joseph P., Amy Besaw Medford, and Jonathan B. Taylor. "Economic and Social Impacts of Restrictions on the Applicability of Federal Indian Policies to the Wabanaki Nations in Maine." Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Research Report, December 2022.
Hankinson, Michael and Justin de Benedictis Kessner. "How Self-Interest and Symbolic Politics Shape the Effectiveness of Compensation for Nearby Housing Development." November 18, 2022.