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
Jacob, Brian A., Lars Lefgren, and Enrico Moretti. "The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior: Evidence from Weather Shocks." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-003, January 2005 (also NBER Working Paper 10739, 2003).
King, David C. "Engage Children in Election Education." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 16, 2004.
Braga, Anthony A., and Glenn L. Pierce. “The Illegal Diversion of Firearms from the United States to Foreign Countries.” Third International Conference on Urban Health Conference Paper, October 2004.
Mansbridge, Jane. "Representation Revisited: Introduction to the Case Against Electoral Accountability." Democracy and Society 2.1 (Fall 2004).
Braga, Anthony A., and Glenn L. Pierce. “Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets in Boston: The Effects of Operation Ceasefire on the Supply of Guns to Criminals.” US/DOJ Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Annual Conference Paper, July 2004.
Kling, Jeffrey, Jeffrey Liebman, and Lawrence Katz. "Bullets Don't Got No Name: Consequences of Fear in the Ghetto." Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development: Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family Life. Ed. Thomas S. Weisner. University of Chicago, 2004.
Pierce, Glenn L., Anthony A. Braga, Raymond R. Hyatt, and Christopher S. Koper. "The Characteristics and Dynamics of Illegal Firearms Markets: Implications for a Supply-Side Enforcement Strategy." Justice Quarterly 21.2 (2004): 391-422.
Braga, Anthony A. “Linking Gun Crimes: The Impact of Ballistics Imaging Technology on the Productivity of the Boston Police Department’s Ballistics Unit.” Journal of Forensic Sciences 46.4 (2004): 701-706.
Braga, Anthony A. "Gun Violence Among Serious Young Offenders." US/DOJ Problem-Oriented Guides for Police Series, Problem-Specific Guide Number 23, 2004.
Braga, Anthony A. “Crime Prevention Research Partnerships Aid Criminal Justice: Practical Approaches to Improving the Success of Crime Prevention Partnerships.” American Sociological Association Footnotes 32.1 (2004): 7.
Moore, Mark H., and Anthony A. Braga. “Police Performance Measurement: A Normative Framework.” Criminal Justice Ethics 23.1 (2004): 3-19.
Braga, Anthony A. “Crime Guns, Gun Criminals, and Ballistics Imaging Technology.” Panel on the Feasibility, Accuracy, and Technical Capability of a National Ballistics Database, National Research Council, Presentation Paper, December 2004.
Ridgeway, Gregory, George Tita, Anthony A. Braga, and Glenn L. Pierce. “Illegal Gun Markets in Los Angeles and Intervention Strategies.” American Society of Criminology Annual Conference Paper, November 2004.
Braga, Anthony A. “Analyzing Homicides: Dying to Know.” Fifteenth Annual Problem-Oriented Policing Conference, Plenary Session Paper, October 2004.
Tita, George, Anthony A. Braga, Glenn L. Pierce, and Alan Saiz. “Mapping Illegal Gun Markets: National, Regional, Local Patterns.” Seventh Annual International Crime Mapping Research Conference Paper, April 2004.
Norris, Pippa. Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Norris, Pippa. "A Seat at the Table: How to Elect Women to Iraq's New Government." Compass: A Journal of Leadership Spring 2004: 6-8.
Power, Samantha. "Still Life." Rwanda: After. Ed. Michal Ronnen Safdie. Carr Foundation, 2004.
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. The Radical Reader: A Documentary Anthology of the American Radical Tradition. The New Press, 2003.
Jacob, Brian A., and Lars Lefgren. "Are Idle Hands the Devil's Workshop? Incapacitation, Concentration, and Juvenile Crime." American Economic Review 93.5 (2003): 1560-1577.
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.
Norris, Pippa. "Ballots Not Bullets: Electoral Systems, Ethnic Minorities and Democratization." The Architecture of Democracy. Ed. Andrew Reynolds and Scott Mainwaring. Oxford University Press, 2002.
Thompson, Dennis. Just Elections: Creating a Fair Electoral Process in the U.S. University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Thompson, Dennis. “Political Representation.” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Ed. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. Elsevier Science, 2002, 11696-11698.
Patterson, Thomas E. The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty, Hardcover Edition. Knopf, 2002.
Matland, Richard E., and David C. King. "Women as Candidates in Congressional Elections." Women Transforming Congress. Ed. Cindy Simon Rosenthal. University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
John Smith. "Leadership In Times of Crisis." Leadership Working Papers, September 2009.
Piehl, Anne Morrison, Suzanne J. Cooper, David M. Kennedy, and Anthony A. Braga. "Testing for Structural Breaks in the Evaluation of Programs." KSG Faculty Research Working Papers Series RWP01-019, April 2001.
Keyssar, Alexander. The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States, Paperback Edition. Basic, 2001.
Keyssar, Alexander. "The Right to Vote and Election 2000." The Undecided Election. Ed. Jack Rakove. Basic, 2001.
Power, Samantha. "The United States and Genocide Law: A History of Ambivalence." The United States and the International Criminal Court: National Security and International Law. Ed. Adam Jones. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
Power, Samantha. "To Suffer by Comparison?" Daedalus (Spring 1999): 31-66.
Hartmann, Francis X., ed. From Children to Citizens, Volume II: The Role of the Juvenile Court. Springer-Verlag, 1987.