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
Bassan-Nygate, Lotem. "How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Abroad Shape Attitudes at Home?" British Journal of Political Science 55.e4 (10 February 2025): 1-19.
Chenoweth, Erica. "Thinking (about peace science) in time." Conflict Management and Peace Science (February 2, 2025).
Chenoweth, Erica. "The Democratic Necessity of Reckoning." The Review of Politics 86.2 (Spring 2024): 238-241.
Norris, Pippa. "Cancel Culture: Myth or Reality?" Political Studies 71.1 (February 2023): 145-174.
Chenoweth, Erica, and Zoe Marks. "Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-017, October 2022.
Norris, Pippa. "Comparing Mass Political Participation in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes." The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation. Ed. Marco Giugni and Maria Grasso. Oxford University Press, 2022, 858-876.
Beck, Colin J., Mlada Bukovansky, Erica Chenoweth, George Lawson, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, and Daniel P. Ritter. On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Bilmes, Linda J., and Cornell William Brooks. "The GI Bill was one of the worst racial injustices of the 20th century. Congress can fix it." Boston Globe. February 23, 2022.
Shattuck, John and Mathias Risse. "Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Equal Access to Public Goods and Services." Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, March 2021.
Shattuck, John and Mathias Risse. "Reimagining Rights & Responsibilities in the United States: Freedom of Speech and Media." Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, March 2021.
Ganz, Marshall. "The Role of Leadership in Cultivating Collective Democratic Voice." The American Prospect. February 26, 2021.
Shattuck, John and Mathias Risse. "Reimagining Rights & Responsibilities in the United States: Gun Rights and Public Safety." Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, February 2021.
Shattuck, John, and Mathias Risse. "Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Disability Rights." Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, January 21, 2021.
Masoud, Tarek. "The Arab Spring at 10: Kings or People?" Journal of Democracy 32.1 (January 2021): 139-154.
Dugan, Laura, and Erica Chenoweth. "Threat, Emboldenment, or Both? The Effects of Political Power on Violent Hate Crimes." Criminology 58.4 (November 2020): 714–746.
Mayne, Quinton, and Cecilia Nicolini. "Disrupting the Party: A Case Study of Ahora Madrid and Its Participatory Innovations." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-030, September 2020.
Gonzalez, Yanilda. Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Mayne, Quinton, Jorrit de Jong, and Fernando Fernandez-Monge. "State Capabilities for Problem-Oriented Governance." Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (2019).
Ganz, Marshall, and Art Reyes III. "Renewing Democracy Requires the Creation of an Inclusive Collective." Sanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2020).
Chenoweth, Erica. "The Science of Contemporary Street Protest: New Efforts in the United States." Science Advances 5.10 (October 2019).
Chenoweth, Erica, and Margherita Belgioioso. "The Physics of Dissent and the Effects of Movement Momentum." Nature Human Behavior (August 5, 2019).
Goldsmith, Stephen. "Participatory Budgeting: A Powerful Civic Education Tool." Governing. June 18, 2019.
Norris, Pippa. "Silver or Lead? Why Violence and Corruption Limit Women’s Representation." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP19-011, 2019.
Greenberg, David, Moshik Temkin, and Mason B. Williams, eds. Alan Brinkley: A Life in History. Columbia University Press, 2019.
Eaves, David, Ben McGuire, and Audrey Carson. "Open Data in North America, Australia and New Zealand." The State of Open Data. Ed. Tim, Davies, and, Stephen, Walker,. International Research and Development Council, 2019.
Masoud, Tarek. "Review Essay: Why Tunisia?" Review of Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly, by Safwan M. Masri. Journal of Democracy, 29.4, October 2018: 166-175.
Carpenter, Daniel, Zachary Popp, Tobias Resch, Benjamin Schneer, and Nicole Topich. "Suffrage Petitioning as Formative Practice: American Women Presage and Prepare for the Vote, 1840-1940." Studies in American Political Development 32.1 (April 2018): 24-48.
Battilana, Julie, and Marissa Kimsey. "Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?" Stanford Social Innovation Review (September 2017).
Bhabha, Jacqueline, Andrzej Mirga, and Margareta Matache, eds. Realizing Roma Rights. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Bilmes, Linda J. "The Bill for America's Longest War Is Still Unpaid." Fiscal Times, May 27, 2017.
Bhabha, Jacqueline. Can We Solve the Migration Crisis? Polity, 2018.
Mansbridge, Jane. "A ‘Selection Model’ for Political Representation." Political Representation: Roles, Representatives and the Represented. Ed. M. Bühlmann and J. Fivaz. Routledge, 2016, 12-28.
Norris, Pippa, and Holly Ann Garnett. "Voter Suppression or Voter Fraud in the 2014 US Elections?" ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-040, July 2015.
Masoud, Tarek, Jason Brownlee, and Andrew Reynolds. The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Ganz, Marshall. "Why Hasn’t ‘Big Data’ Saved Democracy?" Review of The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet), by Micah Sifry. The Nation, October 17, 2014.
Norris, Pippa. Why Electoral Integrity Matters, 1st. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Bhabha, Jacqueline. Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age. Princeton University Press, 2014.
Norris, Pippa, Richard W. Frank, and Ferran Martinez i Coma, eds. Advancing Electoral Integrity. Oxford University Press, 2014.
LeDuc, Lawrence, Richard G Niemi, and Pippa Norris, eds. Comparing Democracies: Elections and Voting in a Changing World, 4th Edition. Sage, 2014.
Mansbridge, Jane. "Everyday Activism." The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Ed. David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans and Doug McAdam. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Norris, Pippa, Richard W. Frank, and Ferran Martinez i Coma. "Assessing the Quality of Elections." Journal of Democracy 24.4 (October 2013): 124-135.
Madestam, Andreas, Daniel Shoag, Stan Veuger, and David Yanagizawa-Drott. "Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement." Quarterly Journal of Economics 128.4 (2013).
Norris, Pippa. "Does the World Agree About Standards of Electoral Integrity? Evidence for the Diffusion of Global Norms." Electoral Studies 34.4 (2013): 576-588.
Campante, Filipe R., and Davin Chor. "Schooling, Political Participation, and the Economy." Review of Economics and Statistics 94.4 (November 2012): 841-859.
Campbell, David E., and Robert D. Putnam. "God and Caesar in America." Foreign Affairs 91.2 (March/April 2012): 34-43.
Bhabha, Jacqueline, ed. Children Without a State: A Global Human Rights Challenge. MIT Press, 2011.
Han, Hahrie, Kenneth T. Andrews, Marshall Ganz, Matthew Baggetta, and Chaeyoon Lim. "The Relationship of Leadership Quality to the Political Presence of Civic Associations." Perspectives on Politics 9.1 (March 2011): 45-59.
Grindle, Merilee S. "Sanctions, Benefits, and Rights: Three Faces of Accountability." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP10-026, June 2010.
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism. The New Press, 2010.
Garay, Candelaria. "Associational Linkages to Labor Unions and Political Parties." Reorganizing Popular Politics: Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America. Ed. Ruth Berins Collier and Samuel Handlin. Penn State Univeristy Press, 2009.