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Feature: The Impact of State Paid Sick Leave Laws on Service Workers

Daniel Schneider finds that state paid sick leave laws increased service workers’ access to paid sick leave and reduced the share of service workers who worked while sick.

A family with a father, mother, and two small children walking on a dirt path.
Feature: Connecting Absolute and Relative Intergenerational Mobility

Deirdre Bloome offers two frameworks for understanding the relationship between types of intergenerational mobility, or whether people are socioeconomically better off than their parents.

Two women in rural India dressed colorfully and carrying baskets on their heads.
Feature: Studying a Government Program to Support Women’s Self-Help Groups

Michael Walton explores the interactions between state and society in rural India within a major community-based development program, finding two major tensions.

A network of computer motherboards and other parts assembled to look like a miniature city.
Feature: The Data-Informed City

Jorrit de Jong presents a comprehensive framework for how cities can use data to address problems more effectively, efficiently, equitably, and with better accountability.

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

Democracy and Clientelism: How Uneasy a Relationship?

Grindle, Merilee S. "Democracy and Clientelism: How Uneasy a Relationship?" Review of Clientelism, Social Policy and the Quality of Democracy Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics; Mobilizing Poor Voters: Machine Politics, Clientelism & Social Networks in Argentina, by Diego Abente Brun, Larry Diamond, Tina Hilgers, Mariela Szwarcberg. Latin American Research Review, 51.3, 2016: 241-249.

Review of Local Governments and Rural Development: Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru

Grindle, Merilee S. Review of Local Governments and Rural Development: Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru, by Krister Andersson, Gustavo Gordillo de Anda, and Frank van Laerhoven. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 29.4, October 2010: 547-549.

Review of Transforming Latin America: The International and Domestic Origins of Change

Grindle, Merilee S. Review of Transforming Latin America: The International and Domestic Origins of Change, by Craig Arceneaux and David Pion-Berlin Journal of Latin American Studies, 38.3 August 2006: 664-666.

Review of Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America

Grindle, Merilee S. Review of Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America, Ed. Alfred P. Montero and David J. Samuels. Journal of Latin American Studies, 37.01 February 2005: 191-191.

Review of Governance Resource Center, Institute of Development Studies

Grindle, Merilee S. Review of Governance Resource Center, Institute of Development Studies . Department for International Development of the United Kingdom, 2003.

Review of Reforming the State: Managerial Public Administration in Latin America

Grindle, Merilee S. Review of Reforming the State: Managerial Public Administration in Latin America, Ed. Bresser Pereia and Peter Spink. Journal of Latin American Studies, 34.01 February 2002: 165-218.

Review of Towards Democratic Viability

Grindle, Merilee S. Review of Towards Democratic Viability, Ed. John Crabtree and Laurence Whitehead. Journal of Latin American Studies, 34.02 May 2002: 427-477.