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
Mansbridge, Jane. "Everyday Activism." The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Ed. David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans and Doug McAdam. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Madestam, Andreas, Daniel Shoag, Stan Veuger, and David Yanagizawa-Drott. "Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement." Quarterly Journal of Economics 128.4 (2013).
Kayyem, Juliette. "A Storm of a Fight." Boston Globe, January 3, 2013.
Masoud, Tarek. "The Egyptian Liberals' Soft Defeat." Foreign Policy, December 18, 2012.
Masoud, Tarek, and Wael Nawara. "Will Egypt’s Liberals Ever Win?" Slate. December 4, 2012.
Campante, Filipe R., and Davin Chor. "Schooling, Political Participation, and the Economy." Review of Economics and Statistics 94.4 (November 2012): 841-859.
Norris, Pippa. "Democratic Deficits: The United States and Canada in Comparative Perspective." Imperfect Democracies: The Democratic Deficit in Canada and the United States. Ed. Patti Tamara Lenard and Richard Simeon. University Of British Colombia Press, 2012.
Ganz, Marshall. "Organizing as a Campaign Strategy." Mobilizing Ideas, September 3, 2012.
Ganz, Marshall. "We Can Be Actors, Not Just Spectators." New Statesman, 141.5114, July 11, 2012, 52-54.
Norris, Pippa. "Political Mobilization and Social Networks. The Example of the Arab Spring." Electronic Democracy. Ed. Norbert Kersting. Barbara Budrich Publishers, July 2012, 55-76.
Wilson, William Julius. "A New Public Rhetoric for the Occupy Movement." Contexts 11.2 (Spring 2012): 12-21.
Chenoweth, Erica, and Maria J. Stephan. Why Civil Resistance Works. Columbia University Press, 2011.
Norris, Pippa. "Political Activism." Developments in European Politics 2. Ed. Paul Heywood, Erik Jones, Martin Rhodes, and Ulrich Sedelmeier. Palgrave, July 2011, 100-119.
Dobbie, Will. "Teacher Characteristics and Student Achievement: Evidence from Teach For America." July 2011.
Bhabha, Jacqueline, ed. Children Without a State: A Global Human Rights Challenge. MIT Press, 2011.
Wright Rigueur, Leah. "The Challenge of Change: Edward Brooke, the Republican Party, and the Struggle for Redemption." Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 13.1 (2011): 91-118.
Han, Hahrie, Kenneth T. Andrews, Marshall Ganz, Matthew Baggetta, and Chaeyoon Lim. "The Relationship of Leadership Quality to the Political Presence of Civic Associations." Perspectives on Politics 9.1 (March 2011): 45-59.
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism. The New Press, 2010.
Ganz, Marshall, and Kate Hilton. "The New Generation of Organizers." Shelterforce. February 12, 2010.
Ganz, Marshall. "Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements." Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice. Ed. Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business School Press, 2010, 509-550.
Ganz, Marshall. Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Baum, Matthew A. "Coalition of the Unrestrained: Mass Media, Electoral Institutions, and the Constraining Effect of Global Opinion Regarding Iraq." Paper for International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008.
Masoud, Tarek. "Why Do Important Social Movements Run in Rigged Elections for Seats in Rubber-stamp Legislatures?" Paper for the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 22, 2008.
Thompson, Dennis F. "Electoral Spontaneity: Expressing Equal Respect." Journal of Social Issues 64.2 (September 2008): 487-501.
Putnam, Lara E., and Robert D. Putnam. "Sunday Forum: The Growing Class Gap." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 20, 2008.
Thompson, Dennis F. "Who Should Govern Who Governs? The Role of Citizens in Reforming the Electoral System." Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly. Ed. Mark E. Warren and Hilary Pearse. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 20-49.
Norris, Pippa. "Cracking the Marble Ceiling: Cultural Barriers Facing Women Leaders." Conference on Women and News: Expanding the News Audience, Increasing Political Participation, and Informing Citizens, Shorenstein Center, November 2007.
Norris, Pippa. "Making Democracy Deliver." Keynote address at the conference on Democracy, Politics and Development, Wilton Park, October 2007.
Norris, Pippa. "Promoting Democracy." Women and Politics Caucus, American Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, August 2007.
Garay, Candelaria. "Social Policy and Collective Action: Unemployed Workers, Community Associations and Protest in Argentina." Politics & Society 35.2 (June 2007): 301-328.
Norris, Pippa. "Do Power-Sharing Elections Work?" Paper for International Conference on Africa's Democratization and Electoral Processes, Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2007.
Norris, Pippa. "Democracy and Development." Ministerial Conference for the Community of Democracies, Bamako, Mali, March 2007.
Norris, Pippa. "Every Vote Counts: Elections and Turnout." Paper for Global Electoral Organization Conference, Washington DC, March 2007.
Rizvi, Gowher. "Reinventing Government: Putting Democracy and Social Justice Back into the Discourse." Public Administration and Democratic Governance: Governments Serving Citizens. U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, April 2007, 89-135.
Norris, Pippa. "New Feminist Challenges to the Study of Political Engagement." The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior. Ed. Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Saich, Anthony, and Xuedong Yang. "Selecting Within the Rules: Institutional Innovation in China's Governance." Grass-roots Democracy in India and China: The Right to Participate. Ed. Manoranjan Mohanty, Richard Baum, Rong Ma, and George Mathew. Sage Publications, 2007, 93-122.
Williams, Kim M. "The Wall: American Immigration Policy and the 2006 Congressional Elections." Tufts University Conference Paper, November 2006.
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the History of American Abolitionism. The New Press, 2006.
Keyssar, Alexander. "Six Ways to Reform Democracy: Reaffirm in Law that Voting Is a Fundamental Right." Boston Review 31.5 (2006): 19-23.
Poiré, Alejandro. "The Problem of Money in Electoral Politics: A Latin American Perspective." David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, November 29, 2005.
Galston, William A., and Elaine C. Kamarck. "The Politics of Polarization." The Third Way Middle Class Project, October 2005.
Norris, Pippa. "The Impact of Electoral Reform on the Representation of Women and Ethnic Minorities." Conference on Electoral Reform in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, September 2005.
Norris, Pippa. "Women in Parliament: A Review of the Current Situation." United Nations 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, March 2005.
Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. "Women as Political Leaders Worldwide: Cultural Barriers and Opportunities." Women and Elective Office, 2nd edition. Ed. Sue Thomas and Clyde Wilcox. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch 13.
King, David C. "Engage Children in Election Education." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 16, 2004.
Mansbridge, Jane. "Representation Revisited: Introduction to the Case Against Electoral Accountability." Democracy and Society 2.1 (Fall 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.