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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

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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

Demanding a Supply of Good Government: A Coalition for the Reform of the State?

Grindle, Merilee S. Demanding a Supply of Good Government: A Coalition for the Reform of the State? Leadership and Governance in Small States: Getting Development Right. Ed. Winston Dookeran and Akhil Malaki. VDM Verlag, 2009.

The Implementation Gap La brecha de la implementación

Grindle, Merilee S. The Implementation Gap, published in Spanish as, La Brecha de la Implementación. Política pública y democracia en América Latina: Del análisis a la implementación. Ed. Freddy Mariñez and Vidal Garza. Miguel Angel Porrúa, 2009.

Local Governments that Perform Well: Four Explanations.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Local Governments that Perform Well: Four Explanations." Decentralizing Governance: Emerging Concepts and Practices. Ed. G. Shabbir Cheema and Dennis A. Rondinelli. Brookings Institution, 2007, 56-74.

When Good Policies Go Bad, Then What? Dislodging Exhausted Industrial and Education Policies in Latin America.

Grindle, Merilee S. "When Good Policies Go Bad, Then What? Dislodging Exhausted Industrial and Education Policies in Latin America." Development Success: Statecraft in the South. Ed. Anthony Bebbington and Willy McCourt. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Strengthening Philanthropy and Civil Society Through Policy Reform: From Proposals to Action.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Strengthening Philanthropy and Civil Society Through Policy Reform: From Proposals to Action." Philanthropy and Social Change in Latin America. Ed. Cynthia Sanborn and Felipe Portocarrero. Harvard University Press (subsequently published in Spanish), 2006.

Mexican Politics in Transition.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Mexican Politics in Transition." Third World Politics at the Crossroads. Ed. William A. Joseph, Mark Kesselman and Joel Krieger. D.C. Heath, 2005, 143-199.

Interests, Institutions, and Reformers: The Politics of Education Decentralization in Mexico.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Interests, Institutions, and Reformers: The Politics of Education Decentralization in Mexico." Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Democratization, and Globalization in Latin America. Ed. Robert Kaufman and Joan M. Nelson. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Mexico.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Mexico." Introduction to Comparative Politics (3rd edition). Ed. Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger and WIlliam A. Joseph. Houghton Mifflin, 2003, 463-512.

1952 and All That: The Bolivian Revolution in Comparative Perspective.

Grindle, Merilee S. "1952 and All That: The Bolivian Revolution in Comparative Perspective." Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective. Ed. Merilee S. Grindle and Pilar Domingo. Harvard University Press, 2003.

Shadowing the Past? Policy Reform in Bolivia, 1985-2002.

Grindle, Merilee S. "Shadowing the Past? Policy Reform in Bolivia, 1985-2002." Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective. Ed. Merilee S. Grindle and Pilar Domingo. Harvard University Press, 2003.

The Good, the Bad, and the Unavoidable: Improving the Public Service in Poor Countries.

Grindle, Merilee S. "The Good, the Bad, and the Unavoidable: Improving the Public Service in Poor Countries." For the People: Can We Fix Public Service? Ed. John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Brookings Institution, 2003.

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Grindle, Merilee S. “CdzԳٲ.” Latinos: Remaking America. Ed. Marcelo M. Suárez-Lrozco and Mariela M. Páez. University of California Press, 2002, 146-150.

“Despite the Odds: The Political Economy of Social Sector Reform in Latin America.”

Grindle, Merilee S. “Despite the Odds: The Political Economy of Social Sector Reform in Latin America.” Exclusion and Engagement: Social Policy in Latin America. Ed. Christopher Abel and Colin M. Lewis. University of London, 2002, 83-110.

“Mexican Politics in Transition.”

Grindle, Merilee S. “Mexican Politics in Transition.” Third World Politics at the Crossroads. Ed. William A. Joseph, Mark Kesselman, and Joel Krieger. Heath, 2002, 143-199.

“Política social en América Latina: Qué se debe hacer?

Grindle, Merilee S. “Política social en América Latina: Qué se debe hacer?" Hacia un nuevo estado en América Latina. Ed. Edgardo Buscalia, Merilee S. Grindle, Elaine Kamarck, et al. CIPPEC and Grupo Columbus, 2002, 265-299.

La Paradoja de la reforma educacional: Pronosticar el fracasco y encontrar el progreso.

Grindle, Merilee S. "La Paradoja de la reforma educacional: Pronosticar el fracasco y encontrar el progreso." Economía política de las reformas educativas en América Latina. Ed. Sergio Martinic and Marcela Pardos. CIDE and PREAL, 2001, 15-52.