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
Stuart, Guy. Review of Credit to the Community: Community Reinvestment and Fair Lending Policy in the United States, by Daniel Immergluck. Urban Affairs Review, 41.3 January 2006: 420-423.
Rotberg, Robert I. Review of Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue, by John D. Garrigus. Choice, December 2006.
Rizvi, Gowher. "The Life and Times of a Colossus: Sheikh Mujib Revisited." Review of Sheikh Mujib: Triumph and Tragedy, by Sayyid A. Karim. The Star, March 26, 2006.
Parker, Richard. "Pittsburgh Pirates." Reviews of Andrew Carnegie and Mellon: An American Life, by David Nasaw and David Cannadine, respectively. New York Times Book Review, November 5, 2006: 10-11.
Risse, Mathias. Review of Nietzsche's Critiques: The Kantian Foundations of His Thought and Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor, by R. Kevin Hill and Gregory Moore, respectively. European Journal of Philosophy, 14.3 December 2006: 438-448.
Kelman, Steven. Review of The Oxford Handbook of Public Management, Ed. Ewan Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., and Christopher Pollitt. Academy of Management Review, 31.4 October 2006: 1094-1098.
Kelman, Steven. "9/11 and the Challenges of Public Management." Review Essay on The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, Administrative Science Quarterly, 51.1 March 2006: 129-142.
Risse, Mathias. Review of Humanitarian Intervention, Ed. Terry Nardin and Melissa S. Williams. Ethics & International Affairs, 20.3 2006: 385-388.
Review of Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana: The Public Anthropology of Kalanga Elites
Peters, Pauline E. Review of Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana: The Public Anthropology of Kalanga Elites, by Richard Werbner. Nations and Nationalism, 12.2 April 2006: 383-385.
Culpepper, Pepper D., and Archon Fung. "What Can We Learn from Social Science about Democracy in Europe?" Reaction to "What Can We Learn from the Collapse of the European Constitutional Project?" in Politische Vierteljahresschrift by Andrew Moravcsik Notre Europe: Etudes et Recherches, September 2006.
Newhouse, Joseph P. Review of Aggregation and the Measurement of Health Care Costs, by Thomas Getzen. Health Services Research, 41.5, October 2006: 1955-1958.
Summers, Lawrence H. "Comments on Richard Zeckhauser's Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable." Capitalism and Society, 1.2 2006.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "Comments on." Review of "Is it 1958 or 1968? Three Notes on the Longevity of the Revived Bretton Woods System.", by Michael Dooley and Peter Garber. Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, 0.1, 2005: 195-204.
Rosengard, Jay K. Review of Good Times and Bad Times in Rural Java: Case Study of Socio-Economic Dynamics in Two Villages towards the End of the Twentieth Century, by Jan Breman and Gunawan Wiradi. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 53.3, April 2005: 760-2.
Gergen, David. "Behind the Scenes with Deep Throat." Review of The Secret Man, by Bob Woodward. Boston Globe, July 6, 2005.
Grindle, Merilee S. Review of Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America, Ed. Alfred P. Montero and David J. Samuels. Journal of Latin American Studies, 37.01 February 2005: 191-191.
Jencks, Christopher. "What Happened to Welfare?" Review of American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare, by Jason DeParle. The New York Review of Books, 52.20 December 15, 2005.
Kelman, Steven. Review of Politics, Policy and Organizations: Frontiers in the Scientific Study of Bureaucracy, Ed. George A. Krause and Kenneth J. Meier. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 24.4 Fall 2005: 880-882.
Rosengard, Jay K. Review of Helping Countries Develop: The Role of Fiscal Policy, Ed. Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, and Gabriela Inchauste. Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 19.2 November 2005: 88.
Ruggie, Mary. Review of Am I Still a Woman?: Hysterectomy and Gender Identity, by Jean Elson. Contemporary Sociology, 34. July 2005.
Gergen, David. "The Art of the Positive." Review of President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination, by Richard Reeves. Boston Globe, December 18, 2005.
Risse, Mathias. "Should Citizens of a Welfare State be Transformed into 'Queens'?" Critical Notice of Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: Of Knights, Knaves, Pawns and Queens, by Julian Le Grand. Economics and Philosophy, 21.2 October 2005: 279-289.
Letts, Christine W. "Nonprofit Management – Soup to Nuts." Review of ed. Robert D. Hermann and Associates. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 16.1, Fall 2005.
Keyssar, Alexander. "Taking the Pledge." Review of To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance, by Richard J. Ellis. Washington Post, June 14, 2005: C04.
Keyssar, Alexander. "The Electoral College Flunks." Review of Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America, by George C. Edwards III. The New York Review of Books, 52.5 March 24, 2005.
Lawrence, Robert Z. Comment on "Designing Policies to Capture Beneficial Effects" in Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development?, Ed. Theodore H. Moran, Edward M. Graham, Magnus Blomström 2005: 367-371.
Allison, Graham. "Worst-Case Scenarios." Review of Catastrophe: Risk and Response, by Richard A. Posner. Washington Post, January 9, 2005.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. Comments on "The Euro, Stabilization Policy and the Stability and Growth Pact OR Can Rubinomics work in the Eurozone?" Ed. Adam S. Posen. The Euro at Five: Ready for a Global Role?, 2005: 157-169.
Scherer, F.M. Comment on Vertical Restrictions and Antitrust Policy, by James Cooper, et al.. Competition Policy International, 1.2, Autumn 2005.
Power, Samantha. "The Original Axis of Evil." Review of The Anatomy of Facism, by Robert O. Paxton. New York Times, May 2, 2004.
Power, Samantha. "The Everything Explainer." Review of by Noam Chomsky. New York Times Book Review, January 4, 2004.
Kelman, Steven. Review of Corporate Warriors, by P.W. Singer. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23.4 Fall 2004: 936-940.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Watch Out." Review of Fortress America: On the Front Lines of Homeland Security, by Matthew Brzezinski. Washington Post Book World, September 12, 2004.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Lonely at the Top: Two Books Examine the Fate of the Nation in a Dangerous World." Review of Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History andThe French Betrayal of America, by Lee Harris and Kenneth R. Timmerman, respectively. Washington Post Book World, April 18, 2004: T04.
Fung, Archon. Review of Deliberation Day, by Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 24.2 March 2005: 472-476.
Rotberg, Robert I. "The African Maelstrom of War, Corruption, Disease and Death." Review of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa, by Howard W. French. New York Times, June 7, 2004: 6.
Husock, Howard. "New Ideas People." Review of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, by David Bornstein. Philanthropy, July/August 2004.
Allison, Graham. "'94 Deal with North Korea Holds Lessons for Today." Review of Going Critical: The First Korean Nuclear Crisis, by Joel S. Wit, Daniel B. Poneman, and Robert L. Gallucci. New York Times, July 24, 2004.
Risse, Mathias. Review of A Measure of Freedom, by Ian Carter. Ethics, 114.2 January 2004: 340-343.
Borjas, George. Comment on "Inequality in America," by Alan B. Krueger, Pedro Carniero, and James J. Heckman. Inequality in America, Ed. Benjamin M. Friedman. MIT Press, 2004.
Hall, Peter Dobkin. Review of Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, by Theda Skocpol. Journal of American Civic Life, 91.1 June 2004.
Frumkin, Peter. Review of Nonprofit Nation, by Michael O'Neill. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2.3 2004.
Frumkin, Peter. Review of The Governance of Not-for-Profit Organizations, by Edward L. Glaeser. International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, 6.3 2004.
Keating, Elizabeth. Review of What Counts: Social Accounting for Nonprofits and Cooperatives, by Jack Quarter, et al. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 33.1 March 2004: 177-180.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "Unsafe at Any Speed: America Since 9/11." Review of Fortress America: On the Frontlines of Homeland Security, by Matthew Brzezinski. Chicago Sun-Times September 26, 2004.
Ignatieff, Michael. "What Geneva Conventions?" Review of Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, by Seymour M. Hersh. New York Times, October 17, 2004.
Newhouse, Joseph P. Comment on "Area Differences in Utilization of Medical Care and Mortality Among U.S. Elderly" by Victor R. Fuchs, Mark McLellan, and Jonathan Skinner. Perspectives on the Economics of Aging, Ed. David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press, 2004: 406-413.
Fountain, Jane. "Searching for Keys to Unlock the Clubhouse." Review Essay on Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher. IEEE Technology and Society, 23.1 Spring 2004.
Rosengard, Jay K. Review of Land Claims in East Timor, by Daniel Fitzpatrick. Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 18.1 May 2004: 68-69.
Donahue, John D. Review of The Rise of the States, by Jon Teaford. American Historial Review, 109.3 June 2004.