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The Harvard Center for International Development is home to faculty affiliates from each school at Harvard University, working across sectors in developing nations around the world.

Faculty research is published in a wide range of academic and policy venues and can be found through the feed and filters below. Select faculty research papers are highlighted in our Faculty Research Insights series on our blog, CID Voices.

CID working papers published by Harvard faculty, graduate students, and research fellows prior to 2024 can be found here. 

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Trump’s threat to American democracy
Pippa Norris
A perfect storm of contemporary events has triggered deep angst about American democracy. Long-standing concern was exacerbated during the 2024 US election campaign by the extreme…
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“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold”: fractionalized and polarized party systems in Western democracies
Pippa Norris
Jean Blondel made many lasting contributions toward comparative politics, not least in his classification of party systems in Western democracies. Yet during the 5 decades since…
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Big Little Election Lies: Cynical and Credulous Evaluations of Electoral Fraud
Pippa Norris
Vol. 77, Issue 1, Pages 1-24
The ‘Big Lie’ in American politics has sparked intense concern about the erosion of public confidence in the integrity of US elections—raising questions about the legitimacy of…
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'Rally around the flag' effects in the Russian–Ukrainian war
Pippa Norris
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the grounds behind Vladimir Putin’s decision were widely debated. Theories suggest several reasons,…
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Cancel culture: Heterodox self-censorship or the curious case of the dog-which-didn’t-bark
Pippa Norris
vlog Working Paper No. RWP23-020
There is widespread concern that academic freedom is threatened by growing demands for intellectual conformity and attempted censorship from intolerant zealots involving ‘woke…
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Promoting gender equality in elected office
Pippa Norris
Feminist agenda-setting through transnational institutions has contributed to a shift in global norms concerning the political representation of women. By the mid-1990s, national…
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In Praise of Skepticism: Trust but Verify
Pippa Norris
A culture of trust is usually claimed to have many public benefits--by lubricating markets, managing organizations, legitimating governments, and facilitating collective action.…
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Comparing Mass Political Participation in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes
Pippa Norris
The structure of opportunities for citizen activism in democratic or autocratic regime diverge sharply, such as in freedom of expression, association, and assembly. These…
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Challenges in Electoral Integrity
Pippa Norris
Governments need rules, institutions, and processes to translate the will of the people into functioning democracies. Election laws are the rules that make that happen. Yet across…
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The reversal of reproductive rights in America is contrary to global trends. Why? Compared with similar Western democracies, Republican voters are exceptionally socially conservative, religious and au
Pippa Norris
Last week’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, ending the right to an abortion in the US, allowed many Red states to adopt some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world.…