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
Jessee, Stephen, Neil Malhotra, and Maya Sen. "Asking about Complex Policies." Public Opinion Quarterly (7 February 2025).
Highsmith, Brian, Maya Sen, and Kathleen Thelen. "Off-Balance: How US Courts Privilege Conservative Policy Outcomes." Perspectives on Politics (6 February 2025).
Rozema, Kyle, Daniel Epps, Adam Chilton, and Maya Sen. "The Endgame of Court-Packing." Washington University in St. Louis School for Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series, May 4, 2023.
Acharya, Avidit, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen. "Historical Persistence." The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. Ed. Jeffrey A. Jenkins, and Jared Rubin. Oxford University Press, 2022, C7.P1–C7.N13.
Baum, Matthew A., Bryce J. Dietrich, and Rebecca Goldstein, and Maya Sen. "Sensitive Questions, Spillover Effects, and Asking about Citizenship on the US Census." The Journal of Politics 84.3 (July 2022): 1869-1873.
Sen, Maya, Yamil Velez, and Mayya Komisarchik. "The Political Consequences of Ethnically Targeted Incarceration: Evidence from Japanese American Internment during World War II." The Journal of Politics 84.3 (July 2022).
Jessee, Stephen, Neil Malhotra, and Maya Sen. "A decade-long longitudinal survey shows that the Supreme Court is now much more conservative than the public." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.24 (June 2022).
Harris, Allison P., and Maya Sen. "How Judges’ Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing." May 6, 2022.
Chilton, Adam, Daniel Epps, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen. "Designing Supreme Court Term Limits." Southern California Law Review 95.2 (May 2022): 1-72.
Chilton, Adam, Daniel Epps, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen. "The Endgame of Court-Packing." SSRN (May 2021).
Chilton, Adam, Daniel Epps, Kyle Rozema, and Maya Sen. "Designing Supreme Court Term Limits." Southern California Law Review 95.1 (May 2021): 1-72.
Sen, Maya. "Written Testimony on the Importance of Judicial Diversity." Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, 03/25/2021.
Bonica, Adam, and Maya Sen. "Estimating Judicial Ideology." Journal of Economic Perspectives 35.1 (Winter 2021): 97-118.