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. "A Terrible Metaphor for the U.S." Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil), January 7, 2007.
Bilmes, Linda. "The Battle of Iraq's Wounded." Los Angeles Times, January 5, 2007.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Teddy Kollek, City Builder." New York Sun, January 4, 2007.
Porter, Roger. "A Deserving President." Washington Times, January 3, 2007.
Pittinsky, Todd L., Seth A. Rosenthal, and R. Matthew Montoya. "Moving Beyond Tolerance: Allophilia Theory and Measurement." In "Positive Intergroup Relations" symposium at Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting, Memphis, TN, January 2007.
Summers, Lawrence H. "Regionalism and the World Trading System." The WTO and Reciprocal Preferential Trading Agreements. Ed. Caroline Freund. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007, 421-427.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "Regionalism and the WTO: Should the Rules Be Changed?" The WTO and Reciprocal Preferential Trading Agreements. Ed. Caroline Freund. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007, 490-505.
Frankel, Jeffrey A., Ernesto Stein, and Shang-jin Wei. "Trading Blocs and the Americas: The Natural, the Unnatural, and the Super-Natural." The WTO and Reciprocal Preferential Trading Agreements. Ed. Caroline Freund. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007, 455-489.
Jorgenson, Dale W., Masahiro Kuroda, and Kazuyuki Motohashi., eds. Productivity in Asia: Economic Growth and Competitiveness. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.
Rizvi, Gowher. "Innovations in American Government: Some Observations and Lessons Learnt." Administrative Innovation and Growth in an International Context. FORMEZ-Centro di Formazione Studi, Napoli, 2007.
Pritchett, Lant, and Rinku Murgai. “Teacher Compensation: Can Decentralization to Local Bodies Take India from Perfect Storm Through Troubled Waters to Clear Sailing?” India Policy Forum 2006-07, Vol. 3. Ed. Suman Bery, Barry P. Bosworth, and Arvind Panagariya. Brookings/Sage, 2007.
Alatas, Vivi, Lant Pritchett, and Anna Wetterberg. “Voice Lessons: Evidence on Social Organizations, Government Mandated Organizations, and Governance from Indonesia's Local Level Institutions Study." Membership Based Organizations of the Poor. Ed. Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, and Carol Richards. Routledge, 2007.
Stavins, Robert N. Review of Tasting Pleasure: Confessions of a Wine Lover, by Jancis Robinson. Journal of Wine Economics, 2.1, Spring 2007: 106-108.
Hogan, William W. "“Market-based Transmission Investments and Competitive Electricity Markets."." Electric Choices: Deregulation and the Future of Electric Power. Ed. Andrew N. Kleit. Independent Institute and Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.
Kamm, Frances. Review of The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life, by Jeff McMahan. Philosophical Review, 116 April 2007: 273-280.
Kamm, Frances. "Brody on Passive and Active Euthanasia." Pluralistic Casuistry: Moral Arguments, Economic Realities, and Political Theory. Ed. Mark J. Cherry and Ana Smith Iltis. Springer, 2007.
Stuart, Guy. "From Standardization and Cross-Subsidization to Service Differentiation and External Subsidies: A Microfinance Strategy for Reaching the Poorest of the Poor." La revue Éthique et économique / Ethics and Economics 5.1 (2007).
Rotberg, Robert I. "Nigeria: Elections and Continuing Challenges." Council on Foreign Relations, 2007.
Cisneros, Henry G., Jack F. Kemp, Nicolas Retsinas, and Kent W. Colton. "Our Communities, Our Homes: Pathways to Housing and Homeownership in America's Cities and States." Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, 2007.
Wilson, William Julius. “Speaking to Publics." Public Sociology: Fifteen Eminent Sociologists Debate Politics and the Profession in the Twenty-first Century. Ed. Dan Clawson, Robert Zussman, Joya Misra, Naomi Gerstel, and Randall Stokes. University of California Press, 2007, 117-123.
Wilson, William Julius. "A New Agenda for America's Ghetto Poor." Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream. Ed. John Edwards, Marion Crane, and Arne L. Kalleberg. The New Press, 2007, 88-98.
Patterson, Thomas E. We the People, 7th Edition. McGraw Hill, 2007.
Graber, Doris A., Denis McQuail, and Pippa Norris, eds. The Politics of News: The News of Politics, 2nd Edition. CQ Press, 2007.
Patterson, Thomas E. "Political Roles of the Journalist." The Politics of News: The News of Politics, 2nd Edition. Ed. Doris A. Graber, Denis McQuail, and Pippa Norris. CQ Press, 2007, 23-39.
Patterson, Thomas E. "The Internet and the Threat it Poses to Local Media: Lessons from News in the Schools." Carnegie/Knight Task Force Report on the Future of Journalism Education, Shorenstein Center, Kennedy School of Government, January 2007.
Patterson, Thomas E. "Mandatory Testing and News in the Schools." Carnegie/Knight Task Force Report on the Future of Journalism Education, Shorenstein Center, Kennedy School of Government, January 2007.
Keyssar, Alexander. “The Meaning of Democracy: Electoral Reform in Local and Global Contexts.” American Historical Association's Annual Meeting, January 2007.
Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor. "In Search of the Story." Who Owns Knowledge? Knowledge and the Law. Ed. Nico Stehr and Bernd Weiler. Transaction Publishers, 2007.
Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor. "On the Future of Law in the Information Society." Ars Electronica 2007: Goodbye Privacy. Ed. Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schöpf. Hatje Cantz (also published in German), 2007.
Chen, Martha, Joann Vanek, and James Heintz. “Informality, Gender and Poverty: A Global Picture.” Informal Sector in a Globalized Era. Ed. Dalia Dey. Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) University Press, June 2007.
Donahue, John D. Review of Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water, by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 5.4 Fall 2007: 75-76.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Making Order: Law and Science in Action." The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Edition. Ed. Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman. MIT Press, 2007, 761-786.
Brown, L. David, and Jagadananda. "Civil Society Legitimacy and Accountability: Issues and Challenges." CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation and Center for Youth and Social Development, January 2007.
Ruggie, John Gerard. "American Exceptionalism and the U.S. Role in the World." Power and Superpower: Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century. Ed. Morton H. Halperin, Jeffrey Laurenti, Peter Rundlet, and Spencer P. Boyer. Century Foundation Press, 2007.
Clark, William C., ed. Highlights in Sustainability Science: A Special Collection from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. PNAS; http://www.pnas.org/misc/sustainability.shtml, 2007.
Ganz, Marshall. "Hillel's Three Questions: A Call to Leadership." Sh'ma, Jewish Family and Life, January 2007.
González, Celia M., and Tom R. Tyler. "Emotional Responses Uncover the Contextual Meaning of Acting (Un)Fairly." Advances in the Psychology of Justice and Affect. Ed. David DeCremer. IAP: Information Age Publishing, 2007.
González, Celia M., and Tom R. Tyler. "Why Do People Care About Procedural Fairness? The Importance of Membership Monitoring." Distributive and Procedural Justice: Research and Social Applications. Ed. Kjell Törnblom and Riël Vermunt. Ashgate, 2007.
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States." Lessons from Pension Reform in the Americas. Ed. Stephen J. Kay and Tapen Sinha. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Madrian, Brigitte. "The U.S. Health Care System and Labor Markets." Wanting It All: The Challenge of Reforming the U.S. Health Care System. Ed. Jane Sneddon. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2007, 137-163.
Sewall, Sarah, ed. "Counterinsurgency in Iraq and Implications of Irregular Warfare for the United States Government." Carr Center National Security and Human Rights Program: Project on the Means of Intervention Workshop Papers Volume 4: 2005-2006, January 2007.
Risse, Mathias, and Michael Blake. "Migration, Territoriality, and Culture." New Waves in Applied Ethics. Ed. Jesper Ryberg , Thomas S. Petersen, and Clark Wolf. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 153-182.
Kamarck, Elaine. "The Democrats' Strategy for the Future." The Future of America's Political Parties. Ed. Andrew E. Busch. Lexington Books, 2007.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "Recent U.S. Free Trade Initiatives in the Middle East: Opportunities But No Guarantees." Arab World Competitiveness Report 2007. World Economic Forum, 2007, 21-30.
Lawrence, Robert Z. "Trade Policy: The Exception to American Exceptionalism?" Power and Superpower: Global Leadership and Exceptionalism in the 21st Century. Ed. Morton H. Halperin, Jeffrey Laurenti, Peter Rundlet, and Spencer P. Boyer. Century Foundation Press, 2007.
Rotberg, Robert I. "The Challenge of Weak, Failing, and Collapsed States." Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World. Ed. Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela R. Aall. U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2007, 83-94.
Helliwell, John, and Robert D. Putnam. "Education and Social Capital." Eastern Economics Journal 33.1 (2007): 1-19.
Holdren, John P. "Threats to Civil Nuclear-Energy Facilities." Science and Technology to Counter Terrorism: Proceedings of an Indo-U.S. Workshop. Ed. Roddam Narasimha, Arvind Kumar, Stephen P. Cohen, and Rita Guenther. National Academies Press, 2007, 61-70.
Shields, Helen M., Daniel Guss, Samuel C. Somers, B. Price Kerfoot, Brian S. Mandell, et al. "A Faculty Development Program to Train Tutors to Be Discussion Leaders Rather Than Facilitators." Academic Medicine 82.5 (May 2007): 486-492.
Peterson, Stephen. "Automating Public Financial Management in Developing Countries." Budgeting and Budgetary Institutions. Ed. Anwar Shah. World Bank, 2007, 323-359.