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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

Bringing Leadership Back In

Ganz, Marshall, and Elizabeth McKenna. "Bringing Leadership Back In." The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Ed. David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, Hanspeter Kriesi, and Holly J. McCammon. Wiley-Blackwell, 2018, 185-202.

Learning to Lead: Pedagogy of Practice

Ganz, Marshall and Emily S. Lin. "Learning to Lead: Pedagogy of Practice." The Handbook for Teaching Leadership. Ed. Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana and Seott Snook. Sage Publications, Inc, 2011, 353-366.

Learning Civic Leadership: Leader Skill Development in the Sierra Club

Baggetta, Matthew, Chaeyoon Lim, Marshall Ganz, Hahrie Han, and Kenneth Andrews. "Learning Civic Leadership: Leader Skill Development in the Sierra Club." Interest Group Politics. Ed. Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis. CQ Press, 2011, 110-138.

Public Narrative, Collective Action, and Power

Ganz, Marshall. "Public Narrative, Collective Action, and Power." Accountability through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action. Ed. Sina Odugbemi and Taeku Lee. The World Bank, 2011, 273-289.

Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements

Ganz, Marshall. "Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements." Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice. Ed. Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business School Press, 2010, 509-550.

Against the Tide: Projects and Pathways of the New Generation of Union Leaders, 1984-2001

Ganz, Marshall, Kim Voss, Teresa Sharpe, Carl Somers, and George Strauss. "Against the Tide: Projects and Pathways of the New Generation of Union Leaders, 1984-2001." Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement. Ed. Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss. ILR Press, Cornell University, 2004.

Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements.

Ganz, Marshall. "Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements." The Psychology of Leadership: New Perspectives and Research. Ed. David M. Messick and Roderick M. Kramer. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements

Ganz, Marshall. "Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements." Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion. Ed. Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper. Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

Resources and Resourcefulness: Leadership, Strategy and Organization in the Unionization of California Agriculture (1959-1966)

Ganz, Marshall. "Resources and Resourcefulness: Leadership, Strategy and Organization in the Unionization of California Agriculture (1959-1966)." Social Movement Reader: Cases and Concepts. Ed. Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper. Blackwell, 2003.