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
Keyssar, Alexander. "The Aristocrats: Focusing on the Presidents Bush." Review of American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, by Kevin Phillips. Boston Sunday Globe, February 8, 2004: H9.
Lazer, David. Review of Reinventing Environmental Regulation: Lessons from Project XL, by Alfred A. Marcus, Donald A. Geffen, and Ken Sexton. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23.1 Winter 2004: 196-198.
Glaeser, Edward L. Review of The Creative Class, by Richard Florida. Harvard Economics Department, May 2004.
Ruggie, Mary. Review of Markets and Medicine: The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States, by Susan Giaimo. Journal of Health, Politics, Policy and Law, 29.3 June 2004.
Toft, Monica. Review of Potentials of Disorder, Ed. Jan Koehler and Christopher Zurcher. Slavic Review, Winter 2004.
Toft, Monica. Review of The Political Economy of Armed Conflict: Beyond Greed and Grievance, Ed. Karen Ballentine, et al.. Political Science Quarterly, Fall 2004.
Putnam, Robert D. "Commentary: ‘Health by association’: some comments." Comment on International Journal of Epidemiology, Vol 33, , August 2004: 667-671.
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.
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.
Power, Samantha. "Robbing the Dead." Review of by Stuart E. Eizenstat. New York Times Book Review, February 23, 2003.
Carter, Ashton B. "A Prescription for Peace." Review of No More Killing Fields: Preventing Deadly Conflict, by David A. Hamburg. Science, 300.5624 May 30, 2003: 1374.
Frumkin, Peter. Review of Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector, by Patrice Flynn and Virginia A. Hodgkinson. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 32.3 May 2003: 398-399.
Jasanoff, Sheila. Review of The Social Construction of What?, by Ian Hacking. ISIS: Journal of the History of Science in Society, 94.4 December 2003: 789-790.
Saich, Anthony. Review of China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition, by Joseph Fewsmith. Development and Change, 34.3 June 2003: 567-568.
Saich, Anthony. Review of Marketization and Democracy: East Asian Experiences, by Samantha F. Ravich. Development and Change, 34.3 June 2003: 561-562.
Ignatieff, Michael. "Americans Abroad." Review of Longitudes and Latitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 and Being America: Liberty, Commerce and Violence in an American World, by Thomas L. Friedman and Jedediah Purdy, respectively. New York Review of Books, 50.6 April 10, 2003: 74-76.
Juma, Calestous. "A Manifesto for the Disenchanted." Review of Science, Seeds and Cyborgs: Biotechnology and the Appropriation of Life, by Finn Bowring. Nature Genetics, 35.1 September 2003: 7-8.
Patterson, Thomas E. Review of Governing with the News: The News Media as a Political Institution, by Timothy E. Cook. Political Communication, 20.1 2003: 87-88.
Ruggie, John Gerard. Review of Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World, by Akira Iriye. Ethics & International Affairs, 17.1: 165-66.
Ruggie, Mary. Review of Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance, by Harold L. Wilensky. Political Science Quarterly, 118.2 Summer 2003.
Frumkin, Peter. Review of Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History, by Lawrence J. Friedman and Mark D. McGarvie. Philanthropy, 17.5 2003: 35-36.
Holdren, John P. "The Quest for Affordable Energy." Review of Power to the People: The Coming Energy Revolution, by Vijay Vaitheeswaran. Scientific American, December 2003.
Pritchett, Lant. Comment on "Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis: Price Changes and the Poor" by James Levinson, Steven Berry, and Jed Friedman. Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets, Ed. Michael P. Dooley and Jeffrey A. Frankel. University of Chicago, 2003: 393.
Lawrence, Robert Z. Comment on "Looking 30 Years Ahead in Global Governance" by Gary Hufbauer. Global Governance: An Architecture for the World Economy, Ed. Horst Siebert. Berlin: Springer, 2003.
Kamarck, Elaine. "Spurred by Strife and a Populist Vision, the Democrats Broadened the Political Field." Review of Party of the People: A History of the Democrats, by Jules Witcover. Boston Globe, December 14, 2003.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. Comment on The Empirics of Growth: An Update, by Barry Bosworth and Susan M. Collins. Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, 2 2003: 189-199.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. Comment on Towards a Statutory Approach to Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Lessons from Corporate Bankruptcy Practice around the World, by Patrick Bolton. IMF Staff Papers, 50 2003: 72-81.
Risse, Mathias. "Bayesianism – Quo Vadis?" Critical Notice of Foundations of Bayesianism, Ed. David Corfield and Jon Williamson. Philosophy of Science, 70.1 2003: 225-232.
Moore, Mark H. "The Public Value Scorecard: A Rejoinder and an Alternative." Review of Strategic Performance Measurement and Management in Nonprofit Organizations, by Robert Kaplan. HCNO Working Paper Series, May 2003.
Piehl, Anne Morrison. Comment on Australia: A Massive Buy-Back of Low Risk Guns, ed. Jens Ludwig and Phil Cook. Brookings Institution, 2003.
Risse, Mathias. Review of Zarathustra's Secret: The Interior Life of Friedrich Nietzsche, by Joachim Köhler. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2003.01.13 January 2003.
Frumkin, Peter. "The End of Public-Nonprofit Relations?" Comment on "The Compact: Attempts to Regulate Relationships between Government and the Voluntary Sector in England" by William Plowden. Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 32.3 September 2003: 436-438.
Grindle, Merilee S. Review of Governance Resource Center, Institute of Development Studies . Department for International Development of the United Kingdom, 2003.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Breaking the Waves in Science Studies." Comment on "The Third Wave of Social Science: Studies of Expertise and Experience" by H.M. Collins and Robert Evans. Social Studies of Science, 33.3 June 2003: 389-400.
Altshuler, Alan. "Government Interventions." Review of Tense Commandments: Federal Prescriptions and City Problems, by Pietro S. Nivola. Journal of the American Planning Assn., 69.4, Autumn 2003: 443-444.
Gergen, David. "From More Liberal Beginnings, the GOP Gradually Gave Way to Conservatism." Review of Grand Old Party, by Lewis L. Gould. Boston Globe, December 14, 2003.
Power, Samantha. "First, Do No Harm." Review of by David Rieff. Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 6, 2002.
Power, Samantha. "Witness to Horrors." Review of Black Livingstone: A Tale of True Adventure In the Nineteenth-Century Congo, by Pagan Kennedy. Washington Post, February 10, 2002.
Ignatieff, Michael. "Virtue in the Time of Infamy." Review of The Double Bond: Primo Levy: A Biography, by Carole Angier. Financial Times, April 6, 2002.
Grindle, Merilee S. Review of Reforming the State: Managerial Public Administration in Latin America, Ed. Bresser Pereia and Peter Spink. Journal of Latin American Studies, 34.01 February 2002: 165-218.
Grindle, Merilee S. Review of Towards Democratic Viability, Ed. John Crabtree and Laurence Whitehead. Journal of Latin American Studies, 34.02 May 2002: 427-477.
Ignatieff, Michael. "The Rights Stuff." Review of The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement, Human Rights and the End of Empire, and In Our Own Best Interest, by Jeri Laber, A.W. Brian Simpson, and William F. Schultz, respectively. New York Review of Books, 49.10 June 13, 2002.
Ignatieff, Michael. "The Torture Wars." Review of The Battle of the Casbah: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Algeria, 1955-1957, by General Paul Aussaresses. New Republic, 226.15 April 22, 2002.
Juma, Calestous. "Sustaining Tropical Agriculture." Review of Exploring Agrodiversity and the Harvest: Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems for African Crops, by Harold Brookfield and J. DeVries and G. Toeniessen, respectively. Nature, 415.6875 February 28, 2002: 960-961.
Kelman, Steven. Review of Return to Reason, by Stephen Toulmin. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 21.1 Winter 2002: 155-158.
Kelman, Steven. Review of Knowledge and Social Capital: Foundations and Applications and Getting Agencies to Work Together: The Practice and Theory of Managerial Craftsmanship, by Eric L. Lesser and Eugene Bardach, respectively. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 21.3 Summer 2002: 515-518.
Ignatieff, Michael. "Mission Possible?" Review of A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, by David Rieff. New York Review of Books, December 19, 2002.
Coglianese, Cary. Review of Improving Regulation: Cases in Environment, Health, and Safety, Ed. Paul S. Fischbeck and R. Scott Farrow. Environment, 44 2002: 44.
Williams, Kim. Review of Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics, by Melissa Nobles. Canadian Journal of Political Science, XXXV.1 March 2002.