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
Autor, David, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson. "How the China trade shock impacted U.S. manufacturing workers and labor markets, and the consequences for U.S. politics." Washington Center for Equitable Growth (May 2025): 1-20.
Whetsell, Travis A., Mark Prebble, Jos C. N. Raadschelders, Kirstine Zinck Pedersen, Christopher Ansell, Hahrie Han, Patricia M. Shields, Jean Hartley, John Benington, and Mark H. Moore. "Roundtable: Perspectives on The Public." Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (7 Apri l2025).
Bosché, Michelle, Rachel Krust, Archon Fung, and Aditya S. Pawar. "Exploring Democratic Deliberation in Public Health: Bridging Division and Enhancing Community Engagement." American Journal of Public Health 115.4 (April 2025): 500-505.
Liu, Naijia, Xinlan Emily Hu, Yasemin Savas, Matthew A. Baum, Adam J. Berinsky, Allison J.B. Chaney, Christopher Lucas, Rei Mariman, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Andrew M. Guess, Dean Knox, and Brandon M. Stewart. "Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube." PNAS 122.8 (February 25, 2025): e2318127122.
Jessee, Stephen, Neil Malhotra, and Maya Sen. "Asking about Complex Policies." Public Opinion Quarterly (7 February 2025).
Highsmith, Brian, Maya Sen, and Kathleen Thelen. "Off-Balance: How US Courts Privilege Conservative Policy Outcomes." Perspectives on Politics (6 February 2025).
Chenoweth, Erica. "Thinking (about peace science) in time." Conflict Management and Peace Science (February 2, 2025).
Perlis, Roy H., Ata Uslu, Jonathan Schulman, Faith M. Gunning, Mauricio Santillana, Matthew A. Baum, James N. Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. "Irritability and Social Media Use in US Adults." JAMA Network Open 8.1 (January 2025): e2452807.
Autor, David, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson. "Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native- and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock." ILR Review 78.1 (January 2025): 10-36.
Chenoweth, Erica, Soha Hammam, Jeremy Pressman, and Jay Ulfelder. "Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024." Social Movement Studies (10/18/2024): 1-14.
Santillana,Mauricio, Ata A. Uslu, Tamanna Urmi, Alexi Quintana-Mathe, James N. Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, Matthew Baum, Roy H. Perlis, and David Lazer. "Tracking COVID-19 Infections Using Survey Data on Rapid At-Home Tests." JAMA Network Open 7.9 (September 2024): e2435442.
McKenna, Elizabeth, and Catharina O'Donnell. "Satellite Political Movements: How Grassroots Activists Bolster Trump and Bolsonaro in the United States and Brazil." American Behavioral Scientist (September 12, 2024).
Perlis, Roy H., Ata Uslu, Jonathan Schulman, Aliayah Himelfarb, Faith M. Gunning, Nili Solomonov, Mauricio Santillana, Matthew A. Baum, James N. Druckman, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. "Prevalence and correlates of irritability among U.S. adults." Neuropsychopharmacology (24 August 2024).
Perlis, Roy H., Katherine Ognyanova, Ata Uslu, Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Mauricio Santillana, James N. Druckman, Matthew A. Baum, and David Lazer. "Trust in Physicians and Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a 50-State Survey of US Adults." JAMA 7.7 (July 2024): e2424984.
Sikkink, Kathryn, Helen Clapp, Daniel MarĂn-LĂłpez, and Averell Schmidt. "Gender and Transitional Justice: Explaining Global Trends." International Journal of Transitional Justice (July 6, 2024).
Fung, Archon, and Dennis Thompson. "Conflict of interest in government: Avoiding ethical and conceptual mistakes." Governance (June 2024).
Bilmes, Linda J., and Cornell Brooks. "Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10.2 (June 2024): 30-67.
Sew, Natalie, Adrianne Billingham Bock, and Danielle Allen. "Creating student leaders through civics." Phi Delta Kappan 105.8 (May 2024): 26-31.
Applbaum, Arthur Isak. "Legitimacy Revisited: Moral Power and Civil Disobedience." Moral Philosophy and Politics 11.1 (April 17, 2024): 87-112.
Bridgeland, John M., Cecilia Muñoz, and Danielle Allen. "Can Higher Education Help Renew American Democracy?" Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 56.2 (March/April 2024): 11 - 20.
Chenoweth, Erica. "The Democratic Necessity of Reckoning." The Review of Politics 86.2 (Spring 2024): 238-241.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, and Michael Hankinson. "How the Identity of Substance Users Shapes Public Opinion on Opioid Policy." Political Behavior 46.1 (March 2024): 609-629.
Jaywant, Abhishek, Faith M. Gunning, Lauren E. Oberlin, Mauricio Santillana, Katherine Ognyanova, James N. Druckman, Matthew A. Baum, David Lazer, and Roy H. Perlis. "Cognitive Symptoms of Post–COVID-19 Condition and Daily Functioning." JAMA Network Open 7.2 (February 2024): e2356098.
Norris, Pippa. "“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold”: fractionalized and polarized party systems in Western democracies." European Political Science (31 January 2024).
Norris, Pippa. "Big Little Election Lies: Cynical and Credulous Evaluations of Electoral Fraud." Parliamentary Affairs 77.1 (January 2024): 1-24.
Weyl, E Glen and Danielle Allen. "The Real Dangers of Generative AI." Journal of Democracy 35.1 (January 2024): 147-162.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "How International Relations Theory on Norm Cascades Can Inform the Politics of Climate Change." PS: Political Science & Politics 57.1 (January 2024): 36-39.
Mansbridge, Jane. "The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis." International Political Science Review (December 21, 2023).
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Diana Da In Lee, Yamil R. Velez, and Christopher Warshaw. "American local government elections database." Scientific Data 10 (December 19, 2023).
Palmer, Maxwell, Benjamin Schneer, and Kevin DeLuca. "A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure." Political Analysis (December 13, 2023): 1-16.
Hanson, Gordon, Pia Orrenius, and Madeline Zavodny. "US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective." Journal of Economic Perspectives 37.1 (Winter 2023): 199-222.
Kizilova, Kseniya, and Pippa Norris. "'Rally around the flag' effects in the Russian–Ukrainian war." European Political Science (2023).
Vinck, Patrick, Tadesse Simie Metekia, Geoff Dancy, Kathryn Sikkink, and Phuong N. Pham. "Can Justice Bring Peace to Ethiopia? How to Heal Divisions After Decades of War." Foreign Affairs (November 15, 2023).
Hanson, Gordon, and Chen Liu. "Immigration and occupational comparative advantage." Journal of International Economics 145 (November 2023): 103809.
Nair, Gautam, and Federico Sturzenegger. "Great Dilution: The Global Impact of the US Inflation Shock on Sovereign Debt." IMF Economic Review (2023).
Wittenberg, Chloe, Matthew A. Baum, Adam J. Berinsky, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, and Teppei Yamamoto. "Media Measurement Matters: Estimating the Persuasive Effects of Partisan Media with Survey and Behavioral Data." The Journal of Politics 85.4 (October 2023): 1275-1290.
Allen, Danielle. "Feeling Seen." Polity 55.4 (October 2023): 872-876.
Perlis, Roy H., Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Alauna Safarpour, Alexi Quintana, Matthew D. Simonson, Jasper Perlis, Mauricio Santillana, Katherine Ognyanova, Matthew A. Baum, James N. Druckman, and David Lazer. "Community Mobility and Depressive Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States." JAMA Network Open 6.9 (September 27, 2023).
Baum, Matthew A., James N. Druckman, Matthew D. Simonson, Jennifer Lin, and Roy H. Perlis. "The Political Consequences of Depression: How Conspiracy Beliefs, Participatory Inclinations, and Depression Affect Support for Political Violence." American Journal of Political Science (September 11, 2023): 1-20.
Emanuel, Alder, and Kathryn Sikkink. "What Made John Ruggie's World Transformation Theory and Practice Hang Together." International Organization 77.4 (Fall 2023): 871-880.
Solomonov, Nili, Jon Green, Alexi Quintana, Jennifer Lin, Katherine Ognyanova, Mauricio Santillana, James N. Druckman, Matthew A. Baum, David Lazer, Faith M. Gunning, and Roy H. Perlis. "A 50-state survey study of thoughts of suicide and social isolation among older adults in the United States." Journal of Affective Disorders 334 (1 August 2023): 43-49.
Mansbridge, Jane, André Bächtiger, Dario Castiglione, Lisa Disch, John Gastil, Mark Brown, Simone Chambers, Rainer Forst, and Alfred Moore. "Mark Warren: Between Realism and Aspiration—Democracy for the Twenty-First Century." Political Science Today 3.3 (August 2023): 24-31.
Levy, Dan, Theodore Svoronos, and Mae Klinger. "Two-Stage Examinations: Can Examinations Be More Formative Experiences?" Active Learning in Higher Education 24.2 (July 2023): 79-94.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, and Maxwell Palmer. "Driving turnout: the effect of car ownership on electoral participation." Political Science Research and Methods 11.3 (July 2023): 654-662.
Ganz, Marshall, Julia Lee Cunningham, Inbal Ben Ezer and Alaina Segura. "Crafting Public Narrative to Enable Collective Action: A Pedagogy for Leadership Development." Academy of Management Learning & Education 22.2 (June 2023): 169-190.
Jefferson, Hakeem, José Luis Gandara, Cathy J. Cohen, Yanilda M. González, Rebecca U. Thorpe, and Vesla M. Weaver. "Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States." Annual Review of Political Science 26.1 (June 2023): 1-32.
Ang, Desmond. "The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate." American Economic Review 113.6 (June 2023): 1424-1460.
Richmond, Matthew A., and Elizabeth McKenna. "Placing the peripheries within Brazil’s rightward turn: Socio-spatial transformation and electoral realignment, 2002–2018." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 0.0 (2023): 1-18.
Green, Jon, James N. Druckman, Matthew A. Baum, Katherine Ognyanova, Matthew D. Simonson, Roy H. Perlis, and David Lazer. "Media use and vaccine resistance." PNAS Nexus 2.5 (May 2023): pgad146.
Mansbridge, Jane. "The future of political theory: Lippincott lecture." Contemporary Political Theory (April 2023).