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
Wilson, William Julius. "Blurring the Color Line." Review of Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America, by Richard Alba. Sociological Forum, 26.2, June 2011: 452-457.
Pritchett, Lant. Review of Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding—And How We Can Improve the World Even More, by Charles Kenny. Population and Development Review, 37.2, June 2011: 397-399.
Kotowski, Maciej. Comment on Auction Choice for Ambiguity-Averse Sellers Facing Strategic Uncertainty, Games and Economic Behavior, 72.2, June 2011: 448-451.
Rosengard, Jay K. Review of Improving Access to Financial Services in Indonesia, World Bank, and Enhancing Access to Finance for Indonesian Overseas Migrant Workers: Evidence from a Survey of Three Provinces, World Bank. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 47.1, April 2011: 132-134.
Rosengard, Jay K. Review of Restructuring of State-Owned Financial Institutions: Lessons from Bank Rakyat Indonesia, Asian Development Bank. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 47.1, April 2011: 132-134.
Kamm, Frances. "Sen on Justice and Rights: A Review Essay." Review of The Idea of Justice, by Amartya Sen. Philosophy and Public Affairs, 39.1, March 2011: 82-104.
Risse, Mathias. "Responsibility for Justice." Review of Responsibility for Justice, by Iris Marion Young. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February 2011: 224.
Rodrik, Dani. "Comments on “New Structural Economics”." Review of New Structural Economics, by Justin Yifu Lin. World Bank Research Observer, 26.2, January 2011: 227-229.
Keith, David. "Reshaping the Energy Landscape." Review of Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century, by Burton Richter. Physics Today, 64.1, January 2011: 56.
Masoud, Tarek. "Varieties of Wahhabism." Review of Contesting the Saudi State, by Madawi al-Rasheed. Middle East Law and Governance, 2.1, 2010: 106-112.
Brown, L. David. Review of Non-Governmental Organizations and Development, by David Lewis and Nazneen Kanji. Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 39.6, December 2010: 1127-1130.
Grindle, Merilee S. Review of Local Governments and Rural Development: Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru, by Krister Andersson, Gustavo Gordillo de Anda, and Frank van Laerhoven. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 29.4, October 2010: 547-549.
Chandra, Amitabh, and Tom S. Vogl. "Rising Up With Shoe Leather?" Comment on Fair Society, Healthy Lives (The Marmot Review), Social Science & Medicine, 71.7, October 2010: 1227-1230.
Ruggie, Mary. Review of Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education, ed. Caragh Brosnan and Bryan S. Turner. Contemporary Sociology, 39.5, September 2010: 556-557.
Hogan, William W. "Fairness and Dynamic Pricing." Comment on The Ethics of Dynamic Pricing, by Ahmad Faruqui. Electricity Journal, 23.6, July 2010: 28-35.
Mansbridge, Jane. "Deliberative Polling as the Gold Standard." Review of When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation, by James S. Fishkin. Good Society Journal, 19.1, 2010: 55-61.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation." Review of Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation, by Mark B. Brown. Environmental Health Perspectives, 118.7, July 2010: A312.
Risse, Mathias. Review of Politics and the Imagination, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, by Raymond Geuss. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, April 10, 2010.
Patterson, Thomas E. Review of Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics & the Media on the Campaign Trail, by Regina G. Lawrence and Melody Rose. Political Communication, 27.2, April-June 2010: 221-223.
Fung, Archon. Review of Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe, by Xavier de Souza Briggs. City and Community, 9.1, March 2010: 132-134.
Bhabha, Jacqueline. Review of The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality, by Ayelet Shachar. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 11.1, February 2010: 161.
Toft, Monica Duffy. "Commentary on Benjamin Miller’s States, Nations and Regional War." Review of States, Nations and Regional War, by Benjamin Miller. Ethnopolitics, 2009.
Bunn, Matthew. "Nuclear Bomb Squad: Looking for a Nuclear Needle in the Haystack." Review of Defusing Armageddon, by Jeffrey T. Richelson. The Nonproliferation Review, 16.3, November 2009: 533-538.
Glaeser, Edward L. "What a City Needs." Review of Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City, by Anthony Flint. New Republic, 240.16, September 9, 2009: 42-45.
Ruggie, Mary. Review of Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials, by Jill A. Fisher. Contemporary Sociology, 38.5, September 2009: 435-436.
Pritchett, Lant. "A Review of Edward Luce's In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India." Review of In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, by Edward Luce. Journal of Economic Literature, 47.3, September 2009: 771–80.
Rotberg, Robert I. Review of The African Jihad: Bin Laden's Quest for the Horn of Africa, by Gregory A. Pirio. African Affairs, 108.432, July 2009: 491-492.
Andrews, Matthew. Review of The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform, by Donald P. Moynihan. Governance, 22.3, July 2009: 513-515.
Hanna, Rema. Review of When Things Fall Apart, Journal of Economic Literature, 47.2, June 2009.
Ruggie, Mary. Review of A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship, ed. Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia. American Journal of Sociology, 114.6, May 2009: 1903-1905.
Saich, Anthony. Review of China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation, by David Shambaugh Political Science Quarterly, 124.1, Spring 2009: 200-201.
Parker, Richard. "Government Beyond Obama?" Review of The Case for Big Government, by Jeff Madrick New York Review of Books, 56.4, March 12, 2009: 38-41.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Foreclosing the Crisis." Review of The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth, by Robert C. Ellickson. New Republic, 240.1, February 4, 2009: 45-47.
Western, Bruce. "Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor." Review of Distrust and Defensive Individualism Among the Black Poor, by Sandra Susan Smith. Contemporary Sociology, 38.1, January 2009: 71-72.
Donahue, John D. Review of The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services through Choice and Competition, by Julian Le Grand82.4, December 2008: 762-765.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "A Splintered Function: Fate, Faith, and the Father of the Atomic Bomb." Review of Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect, by Charles Thorpe. Metascience, 17.3, November 2008: 351-387.
Peters, Pauline E. "Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa." Review of Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa, Ed. Bill Derman, Rie Odgaard, and Espen Sjaastad. Journal of Agrarian Change, 8.4, October 2008: 633-636.
Culpepper, Pepper D. Review of Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity, eds. Masahiko Aoki, Gregory Jackson, and Hideaki Miyajima. Social Science Japan Journal, 11.2, October 2008: 339-343.
Rotberg, Robert I. Review of Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection, by Jeremy D. Popkin. Choice, 45.2, October 2008.
Power, Samantha. "Is Humanitarian Intervention Dead?" Review of Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Huma 1st Edition, by Gary J. Bass. SLATE, September 29, 2008.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "A Climate for Change." Review of Hot, Flat, and Crowded, by Thomas L. Friedman. Washington Post, September 7, 2008.
Perkins, Dwight H. Review of The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, by Barry Naughton. The Developing Economies, 46.3, September 2008: 315-317.
Rotberg, Robert I. Review of Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power, by Ingrid Jordt. Choice, 45.1, September 2008.
Power, Samantha. "The Democrats & National Security." Review of Us vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America's Security, by J. Peter Scoblic, and Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats, by Matthew Yglesias. New York Review of Books, 55.13, August 14, 2008: 66-72.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Auto-Emancipation." Review of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do: And What It Says About Us, by Tom Vanderbilt New Republic, 239.2, August 13, 2008: 36-39.
Kelman, Steven. "The Impact of Pay Disparities." Review of The Warping of Government Work, by John Donahue Federal Computer Week, July 28, 2008.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Controlling Biotechnology: Science, Democracy and 'Civic Epistemology'." Author's response to reviews of Designs on Nature, by Sheila Jasanoff. Metascience, 17.2, July 2008: 177-198.
Juma, Calestous. Review of The Birth of Development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization Changed the World, 1945-1965, by Amy L.S. Staples. Agricultural History, 82.3, Summer 2008: 417-418.
Donahue, John D. Review of Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State, by David G. Frederickson and H. George Frederickson, and Challenging the Performance Movement: Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values, by Beryl A. Radin. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 27.3, June 2008.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Speaking Honestly to Power." Review of The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics, by Roger A. Pielke, Jr. American Scientist, 96.3, May/June 2008: 240-243.