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
Crabtree, Charles, Christian Davenport, Erica Chenoweth, Dana M. Moss, Jennifer Earl, Emily Hencken Ritter, and Christopher Sullivan. "Contentious Politics in the Trump Era." PS: Political Science & Politics 51.1 (January 2018): 17-25.
Mainwaring, Scott, and James Loxton, eds. Life After Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Sen, Maya. "The Legal Academy's Ideological Uniformity." Journal of Legal Studies 47.1 (January 2018): 1-43.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin. "Off-Cycle and Out of Office: Election Timing and the Incumbency Advantage." The Journal of Politics 80.1 (January 2018): 119-132.
Bonica, Adam, and Maya Sen. "The Politics of Selecting the Bench from the Bar: The Legal Profession and Partisan Incentives to Introduce Ideology into Judicial Selection." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-048, December 2017.
Fairfield, Tasha, and Candelaria Garay. "Redistribution Under the Right in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Organized Actors in Policymaking." Comparative Political Studies 50.14 (December 2017): 1871-1906.
Mansbridge, Jane. "Recursive Representation in the Representative System." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-045, September 2017.
Putnam, Robert D. "America Needs Big Ideas to Heal Our Divides. Here Are Three." PBS Newshour, October 19, 2017.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "How the U.S. Can Quell the Kurdish Crisis." Bloomberg View, October 4, 2017.
Gonzalez, Yanilda. "“What Citizens Can See of the State”: Police and the Construction of Democratic Citizenship in Latin America." Theoretical Criminology 21.4 (October 2017): 494-511.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "The Right Way to Do Regime Change in Venezuela." Bloomberg View, September 28, 2017.
Power, Samantha. "Why Foreign Propaganda Is More Dangerous Now." New York Times. September 19, 2017.
Battilana, Julie, and Marissa Kimsey. "Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?" Stanford Social Innovation Review (September 2017).
Wagner, Alexander F., Richard J. Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler. "Paths to Convergence: Stock Price Adjustment After the Trump Election Shock." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-039, September 2017 (Updated July 2018).
Sweeney, Latanya, Ji Su Yoo, and Jinyan Zang. "Voter Identity Theft: Submitting Changes to Voter Registrations Online to Disrupt Elections." Technology Science (September 2017).
Norris, Pippa. Strengthening Electoral Integrity. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Norris, Pippa, and Alessandro Nai, eds. Election Watchdogs: Transparency, Accountability and Integrity. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Temkin, Moshik. "Historians Shouldn’t Be Pundits." New York Times, June 26, 2017.
Bhabha, Jacqueline, Andrzej Mirga, and Margareta Matache, eds. Realizing Roma Rights. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Inglehart, Ronald, and Pippa Norris. "Trump and Populist-Authoritarian Parties: The Silent Revolution in Reverse." Perspectives on Politics. 15.2 (June 2017): 443-454.
Goldsmith, Stephen, and Eric Bosco. "Smarter Laws, Better Bureaucrats." UMKC Law Review 85.4 (Summer 2017): 931.
Bilmes, Linda J. "The Bill for America's Longest War Is Still Unpaid." Fiscal Times, May 27, 2017.
Bhabha, Jacqueline. Can We Solve the Migration Crisis? Polity, 2018.
Parker, Richard. "The Natural Rights We Must Protect." Challenge 60.3 (May 2017): 279-286.
Norris, Pippa, and Max Grömping. "Populist Threats to Electoral Integrity: The Year in Elections 2016-2017." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-018, May 2017.
Rogers, Todd, Donald P. Green, John Ternovski, and Carolina Ferrerosa Young. "Social Pressure and Voting: A Field Experiment Conducted in a High-Salience Election." Electoral Studies 46 (April 2017): 87-100.
Brodsky, Lauren. "Informed Diplomacy: What Trump Can Learn From JFK." WBUR Cognoscenti, April 28, 2017.
Norris, Pippa. Why American Elections Are Flawed (and How to Fix Them), 1. Cornell University Press, 2017.
Burns, Nicholas. "The Budget, Diplomacy and Development." U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, March 28, 2017.
Norris, Pippa. "Is Western Democracy Backsliding? Diagnosing the Risks." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-012, March 2017.
Burns, Nicholas. "Trump’s Cuts Would Cripple the Country’s Diplomats When We Need Them Most." Washington Post, March 4, 2017.
Norris, Pippa. "A discussion of Alexander Cooley and Jack Snyder's Ranking the World." Perspectives on Politics 15.1 (March 2017): 165.
Power, Samantha. "My Friend, the Russian Ambassador." New York Times. February 25, 2017.
Wagner, Alexander F., Richard J. Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler. "Company Stock Reactions to the 2016 Election Shock: Trump, Taxes and Trade." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-005, February 2017.
Mansbridge, Jane. "The Long Life of Nancy Fraser’s “Rethinking the Public Sphere”." Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique. Ed. Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 101-118.
Mansbridge, Jane, and Audrey Latura. "The Polarization Crisis in the US and the Future of Listening." Strong Democracy in Crisis: Promise or Peril? Ed. Trevor Norris. Lexington Books, 2017.
Mayne, Quinton, and Armen Hakhverdian. "Political Trust, Education, and Socialization." Handbook on Political Trust. Ed. Sonja Zmerli and Tom van der Meer. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017, 176-196.
Norris, Pippa. "The Conceptual Framework of Political Support." Handbook on Political Trust. Ed. Sonja Zmerli and Tom van der Meer. Edward Elgar, 2017.
Norris, Pippa. "Electoral Transitions: Stumbling out of the Gate." Democratization in the 21st Century: Reviving Transitology. Ed. Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou and Timothy D. Sisk.. Routledge, 2017, 49-74.
Norris, Pippa. "Electoral Integrity and Electoral Systems." Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems. Ed. Erik S. Herron, Robert J. Pekkanen, and Matthew S. Shugart. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Norris, Pippa. "Electoral Integrity." The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion. Ed. Justin Fisher, Edward Fieldhouse, Mark N. Franklin, Rachel Gibson, Marta Cantijoch, Christopher Wlezien.. Routledge, 2017.
Goldsmith, Stephen and Jill Jamieson. "Tapping Private Financing and Delivery to Modernize America’s Federal Water Resources." U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources, January 2017.
Fung, Archon. "Our Desperate Need to Save US Democracy from Ourselves." The Hill, December 7, 2016.
Mainwaring, Scott. "Party System Institutionalization, Party Collapse, and Party Building." Government and Opposition 51 No. 4 (2016): 691-716.
Grindle, Merilee S. "Democracy and Clientelism: How Uneasy a Relationship?" Review of Clientelism, Social Policy and the Quality of Democracy Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics; Mobilizing Poor Voters: Machine Politics, Clientelism & Social Networks in Argentina, by Diego Abente Brun, Larry Diamond, Tina Hilgers, Mariela Szwarcberg. Latin American Research Review, 51.3, 2016: 241-249.
Norris, Pippa, Miguel Angel Lara Otaola, Ferran Martinez I Coma. "El Marathon Electoral de America." Foreign Affairs Latin America 16.4 (November 2016): 77-86.
Hehir, J. Bryan. "Roman Catholicism and Democracy: The Post-Conciliar Era." Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine. Ed. Democopoulos, George, and Aristotle Papanikalaou. Fordham University Press, November 2016.
Norris, Pippa. "Why American Elections Are Flawed (and How to Fix Them)." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-038, September 2016.
Saich, Anthony. State-Society Relations in the People’s Republic of China Post-1949. Brill Press, 2016.
Mayne, Quinton, and Brigitte Geissel. "Putting the demos back into the concept of democratic quality." International Political Science Review (2016).