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
Sweeney, Latanya. "A Systematic Review of the 109,119 Voter Registration Drops in Ohio During the Federal Law’s 90-Day Quiet Period." Technology Science (April 22, 2025): 2025041703.
Sweeney, Latanya, and Josh Visnaw. "Measuring Mistakes: A Data-Driven Assessment of Voter List Maintenance and Erroneous Deletions in Ohio’s 2024 Election." Technology Science (April 22, 2025).
Sweeney, Latanya, and Josh Visnaw. "Efficacy of Text Messaging in Activating Hard-to-Reach Voters in Rhode Island and Ohio." Technology Science (April 22, 2025).
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.
Battilana, Julie, Christine M. Beckman. and Julie Yen. "On Democratic Organizing and Organization Theory." Administrative Science Quarterly (2025).
Elmendorf, Doug. "House to vote on budget to prevent shutdown." LiveNOW on FOX, March 11, 2025.
Elmendorf, Doug. "What does the House-passed budget resolution mean?" Harvard Kennedy School, March 5, 2025.
Robb, Katharine, Pablo Uribe, Eleanor Dickens, Ashley Marcoux, Jessica Creighton, and Jorrit de Jong. "The Impact of City-Led Neighborhood Action on the Coproduction of Neighborhood Quality and Safety in Buffalo, NY." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 22.3 (March 2025): 341.
Kayyem, Juliette. "Is DOGE Sure It Wants to Fire These People?" The Atlantic, March 1, 2025.
Bassan-Nygate, Lotem. "How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Abroad Shape Attitudes at Home?" British Journal of Political Science 55.e4 (10 February 2025): 1-19.
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).
Chenowth, Erica. "How AI Can Support Democracy Movements: Summary Report of a Research and Practice Workshop." Ash Center Occasional Paper Series, February 2025.
Dynan, Karen, and Doug Elmendorf. "Don’t look to efficiency for big deficit reductions." What awaits the Department of Government Efficiency? vlog experts on prospects for a radical new initiative, January 15, 2025.
Bell, Daniel A., Edmund W. Cheng, Chunyan Ding, Elisabeth Ellis, Ruiping Fan, Alfred Ho, Sungmoon Kim, Qing Liu, Haig Patapan, Mathias Risse, Robert Sparrow, Siu Fu Tang, Julia Tao and Ellen Y. Zhang. "Relationship and Family for Good Governance." An East-West Dialogue on Good Governance: Learning from Each Other. Ed. Ruiping Fan and Sungmoon Kim. Singapore: Springer, 2024, 25-58.
Bell, Daniel A., Edmund W. Cheng, Chunyan Ding, Elisabeth Ellis, Ruiping Fan, Alfred Ho, Sungmoon Kim, Qing Liu, Haig Patapan, Mathias Risse, Robert Sparrow, Siu Fu Tang, Julia Tao, and Ellen Y. Zhang. "Ritual, Civility, and Harmony for Good Governance." An East-West Dialogue on Good Governance: Learning from Each Other. Ed. Ruiping Fan and Sungmoon Kim. Singapore: Springer, 2024, 59-90.
Bell, Daniel A., Edmund W. Cheng, Chunyan Ding, Elisabeth Ellis, Ruiping Fan, Sungmoon Kim, Qing Liu, Haig Patapan, Mathias Risse, Robert Sparrow, Siu Fu Tang, Julia Tao, and Ellen Y. Zhang. "Individual Rights for Good Governance." An East-West Dialogue on Good Governance: Learning from Each Other. Ed. Ruiping Fan and Sungmoon Kim. Singagpore: Springer, 2024, 91-123.
Bell, Daniel A., Edmund W. Cheng, Chunyan Ding, Elisabeth Ellis, Ruiping Fan, Alfred Ho, Sungmoon Kim, Qing Liu, Haig Patapan, Mathias Risse, Robert Sparrow, Siu Fu Tang, Julia Tao, and Ellen Y. Zhang. "Human Equality for Good Governance." An East-West Dialogue on Good Governance: Learning from Each Other. Ed. Ruiping Fan and Sungmoon Kim. Singapore: Springer, 2024, 125-156.
Risse, Mathias. "What I have learned." An East-West Dialogue on Good Governance: Learning from Each Other. Ed. Ruiping Fan and Sungmoon Kim. Singapore: Springer, 2024, 197-200.
Norris, Pippa. "Trump’s threat to American democracy." U.S. Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign. Ed. Daniel Jackson et al. Bournmouth: University of Bournmouth, 2024.
Buzas, Zoltan, and Lotem Bassan-Nygate. "Human Rights Organizations and Shaming Tactics: Using Anti-Racist Cues to Hone the Messaging." Keough School Policy Brief Series, 2024.
Goldsmith, Stephen and Juncheng "Tony" Yang. "AI and the Transformation of Accountability and Discretion in Urban Governance." Data-Smart City Solutions at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, October 2024.
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.
Voelkel, Jan, Michael Stagnaro, James Chu... Julia Minson, et al. "Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity." Science 386.6719 (October 18, 2024): eadh4764.
Kalt, Joseph P. "Self-Government, Taxation, and Tribal Development: The Critical Role of American Indian Nation Business Enterprises." Policy Briefs for Tribal, Federal & State Governments, Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance & Development, October 7, 2024.
Summerfield, Christopher, ... Mathias Risse, et al. "How will advanced AI systems impact democracy?" 27 August 2024.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Why Are Stocks, Gold, and the Dollar Surging?" Project Syndicate, July 24, 2024.
Fung, Archon, and Dennis Thompson. "Conflict of interest in government: Avoiding ethical and conceptual mistakes." Governance (June 2024).
Fung, Archon, Max Kiefel, and Nick Chedli Carter. "From Crisis to Opportunity: How the City of Portland Embraced Democratic Innovation." Ash Center Occasional Papers Series, June 2024.
Kunzman, Hannah and Danielle Allen. "Beyond the Sound and Fury: The Landscape of Curricular Contestation in Texas." Ash Center Occasional Papers Series, June 2024.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Europe’s Carbon Border Tax Advances the Fight Against Climate Change." Project Syndicate, May 24, 2024.
Sew, Natalie, Adrianne Billingham Bock, and Danielle Allen. "Creating student leaders through civics." Phi Delta Kappan 105.8 (May 2024): 26-31.
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.
Brooks, Arthur. "America’s Crisis of Civic Virtue." Journal of Democracy 35.2 (April 2024): 23-39.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Democrats Are Better for the US Economy." Project Syndicate, March 25, 2024.
Fung, Archon, David Moss, and Odd Arne Westad, eds. When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Chenoweth, Erica. "The Democratic Necessity of Reckoning." The Review of Politics 86.2 (Spring 2024): 238-241.
Rodrik, Dani. "How to smooth US-China economic relations for the benefit of the global economy: A light model of global economic governance." Journal of Government and Economics 13 (Spring 2024).
Fung, Archon, and Sean Gray, eds. Empowering Affected Interests: Democratic Inclusion in A Globalized World. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
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.
Frankel, Jeffrey. "Explaining Americans’ Pessimism About a Strong Economy." Project Syndicate, February 22, 2024.
Norris, Pippa. "“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold”: fractionalized and polarized party systems in Western democracies." European Political Science (31 January 2024).
Elmendorf, Douglas, and Heidi Williams. "How Does Accounting for Population Change Affect Estimates of the Effect of Immigration Policies on the Federal Budget?" Penn Wharton Budget Model, January 18, 2024.
Allen, Danielle, Sarah Hubbard, Woojin Lim, Allison Stanger, Shlomit Wagman, Kinney Zalesne. "A Roadmap for Governing AI: Technology Governance and Power Sharing Liberalism." Ash Center Occasional Paper Series, January 2024.
Obolensky, Marguerite, Marco Tabellini, and Charles Taylor. "Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates." NBER Working Paper Series, January 2024.
Norris, Pippa. "Big Little Election Lies: Cynical and Credulous Evaluations of Electoral Fraud." Parliamentary Affairs 77.1 (January 2024): 1-24.
Clark, Chelsey S., Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Sean J. Westwood, Maya Sen, Neil Malhotra, and Stephen Jessee. "Effects of a US Supreme Court ruling to restrict abortion rights." Nature Human Behaviour 8.1 (January 2024): 63-71.
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.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin. "The Electoral and Policy Effects of Election Timing in City and County Government." December 23, 2023.