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Delivery worker wearing a medical mask and carrying packages.
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

People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal

Ganz, Marshall. People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Political Theory of the Digital Age: Where Artificial Intelligence Might Take Us

Risse, Mathias. Political Theory of the Digital Age: Where Artificial Intelligence Might Take Us. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

In Praise of Skepticism: Trust but Verify

Norris, Pippa. In Praise of Skepticism: Trust but Verify. Oxford University Press, 2022.

Rights and Their Limits: In Theory, Cases, and Pandemics

Kamm, F.M. Rights and Their Limits: In Theory, Cases, and Pandemics. Oxford University Press, 2022.

Holding Together: The Hijacking of Rights in America and How to Reclaim Them for Everyone

Shattuck, John, Sushma Raman, and Mathias Risse. Holding Together: The Hijacking of Rights in America and How to Reclaim Them for Everyone. The New Press, May 2022.

On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World

Beck, Colin J., Mlada Bukovansky, Erica Chenoweth, George Lawson, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, and Daniel P. Ritter. On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World. Oxford University Press, 2022.

Elements in International Relations

Price, Richard, and Kathryn Sikkink. Elements in International Relations. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

The Role of External Support in Nonviolent Campaigns: Poisoned Chalice or Holy Grail?

Chenoweth, Erica, and Maria J. Stephan. The Role of External Support in Nonviolent Campaigns: Poisoned Chalice or Holy Grail? ICNC, 2021.

Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States

Danielle F. Jung and Dara Kay Cohen. Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities

Sikkink, Kathryn. The Hidden Face of Rights: Toward a Politics of Responsibilities. Yale University Press, 2020.

On Justice: Philosophy, History, Foundations

Risse, Mathias. On Justice: Philosophy, History, Foundations. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

On Trade Justice: A Philosophical Plea for a New Global Deal

Risse, Mathias, and Gabriel Wollner. On Trade Justice: A Philosophical Plea for a New Global Deal. Oxford University Press, 2019.