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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Good Governance, RIP: A Critique and an Alternative

Grindle, Merilee S. "Good Governance, RIP: A Critique and an Alternative." Governance 30.1 (January 2017): 17-22.

Through a Glass Darkly: Reflecting on Bolivia

Hilderbrand, Mary E.and Merilee S. Grindle. "Through a Glass Darkly: Reflecting on Bolivia." ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America (Fall 2011): 6-8.

Governance Reform: The New Analytics of Next Steps

Grindle, Merilee S. "Governance Reform: The New Analytics of Next Steps." Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions 24.3 (July 2011): 415-418.

Good Enough Governance Revisited

Grindle, Merilee S. "Good Enough Governance Revisited." Development Policy Review 29.Supplement (January 2011): s199-s221.

Paths Toward Good Governance Los Caminos Hacia un Buen Gobierno

Grindle, Merilee S. "Paths Toward Good Governance", published in Spanish as, "Los Caminos Hacia un Buen Gobierno." Buen Gobierno y Función Pública 125 (2009).

Good Enough Governance Revisited.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Good Enough Governance Revisited." Development Policy Review 25.5 (September 2007): 533-574.

Reform Despite the Odds: Improving Quality in Education.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Reform Despite the Odds: Improving Quality in Education." Revista Pensamiento Educativo 40.1 (June 2007): 131-152.

Modernizing Town Hall: Capacity Building with a Political Twist.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Modernizing Town Hall: Capacity Building with a Political Twist." Public Administration and Development 26.1 (February 2006): 55-69.

Decentralization and the Promise of Good Governance (in Spanish).

Grindle, Merilee S. "Decentralization and the Promise of Good Governance" (in Spanish). Políticas Públicas (Mexico) 1.1 (2006).

Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries." Governance 17.4 (October 2004): 525-548.

“Mexico Transitions: Struggling Toward Democracy.”

Grindle, Merilee S. “Mexico Transitions: Struggling Toward Democracy.” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America II.1 (Fall 2002): 44-46.

Education Reform in Mexico: Where are the Parents?

Grindle, Merilee S. "Education Reform in Mexico: Where are the Parents?" ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America (Fall 2001): 16-18.