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.
Búzás, Zoltán I., and Lotem Bassan-Nygate. "Race, shaming, and international human rights." American Journal of Political Science (9 December 2024).
Narh, Bernice Nuerkey, and Woolcock, Michael. "Publication: Reconciling Multi-Level Rights-Based Commitments in Development: Assessing the Legal and Administrative Imperatives of Responding to Education, Health Care, and Environment Protection Challenges." World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, 11/22/2024.
Buzas, Zoltan, and Lotem Bassan-Nygate. "Human Rights Organizations and Shaming Tactics: Using Anti-Racist Cues to Hone the Messaging." Keough School Policy Brief Series, 2024.
Bassan-Nygate, Lotem, and Gadi Heimann. "Dealing with Guilt and Shame in International Politics." International Relations 38.2 (June 2024): 256-278.
Robb, Katharine, Rowana Ahmed, John Wong, Elissa Ladd, and Jorrit de Jong. "Substandard housing and the risk of COVID-19 infection and disease severity: A retrospective cohort study." SSM - Population Health 25 (March 2024): 101629.
Clark, Chelsey S., Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Sean J. Westwood, Maya Sen, Neil Malhotra, and Stephen Jessee. "Effects of a US Supreme Court ruling to restrict abortion rights." Nature Human Behaviour 8.1 (January 2024): 63-71.
Vinck, Patrick, Tadesse Simie Metekia, Geoff Dancy, Kathryn Sikkink, and Phuong N. Pham. "Can Justice Bring Peace to Ethiopia? How to Heal Divisions After Decades of War." Foreign Affairs (November 15, 2023).
Alsan, Marcella, Luca Braghieri, Sarah Eichmeyer, Minjeong Joyce Kim, Stefanie Stantcheva, and David Y. Yang. "Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 15.4 (October 2023): 389-421.
Emanuel, Alder, and Kathryn Sikkink. "What Made John Ruggie's World Transformation Theory and Practice Hang Together." International Organization 77.4 (Fall 2023): 871-880.
Risse, Mathias. "On the Role of Solar Geoengineering in Combatting Climate Change: Harvard University vs. Indigenous Voices." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP23-026, August 2023.
Dancy, Geoff, Kathryn Sikkink, Mykhailo Soldatenko, and Patrick Vinck. "Russia’s Willing Collaborators: Ukraine Needs a Measured Lustration Policy to Strengthen Security and Rebuild Democracy." Foreign Affairs. June 8, 2023.
Bhabha, Jacqueline. "Health Rights for All: The Imperative of Including All Migrants." Review of Irregular Migrants and the Right to Health, by Stefano Angeleri. Health and Human Rights Journal, 25.1, June 2023: 223-226.
Cohen, Dara. "Going Beyond Accountability to Deter Conflict-Related Sexual Violence." United States Institute of Peace, Analysis and Commentary, March 14, 2023.
Cohen, Dara Kay, Danielle F. Jung, and Michael Weintraub. "Collective Vigilantism in Global Comparative Perspective." Comparative Politics 55.2 (January 2023): 239-261.
Chenoweth, Erica, Zoe Marks, Matthew Cebul, and Miranda Rivers. "Youth and LGBTQ+ Participation In Nonviolent Action." USAID, January 2023.
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.
Kamm, F.M. Rights and Their Limits: In Theory, Cases, and Pandemics. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Baum, Matthew A., Alauna Safarpour, and Kristin Lunz Trujillo. "Kansas vote for abortion rights highlights disconnect between majority opinion on abortion laws and restrictive state laws being passed after Supreme Court decision." The Conversation. July 25, 2022.
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).
Norris, Pippa. "The reversal of reproductive rights in America is contrary to global trends. Why? Compared with similar Western democracies, Republican voters are exceptionally socially conservative, religious and authoritarian." USAPP: United States Politics and Policy Blog, June 30, 2022.
Shattuck, John, Sushma Raman, and Mathias Risse. Holding Together: The Hijacking of Rights in America and How to Reclaim Them for Everyone. The New Press, May 2022.
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.
Sikkink, Kathryn. ""Political Science Did Not Provide Us with the Insights We Needed." An Interview." Embattled Visions: Human Rights since 1990. Ed. Jan Eckel, and Daniel Stahl. Wallstein Verlag, 2022, 297-342.
The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines
Carter, Ashton B. "The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines." Daedalus 151.2 (Spring 2022): 299-308.
Bhabha, Jacqueline. "The Imperative of Sustaining (Rather than Destroying) Frontline Empathic Solidarity for Distress Migrants Fortress (North) America." Boston University International Law Journal 40.1 (Spring 2022): 49-78.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "Diálogos con Shevy sobre derechos humanos, responsabilidades y ciudadanÃa." Pensamientos y afectos en la obra de Elizabeth Jelin. Ed. Sergio Caggiano, Silvina Merenson, and Sebastian Pereyra. Mono y Davila, 2022.
Corona Maioli, Susanna, Jacqueline Bhabha, Kolitha Wickramage, Laura C N Wood, Ludivine Erragne, Omar Ortega GarcÃa, Rochelle Burgess, Vasileia Digidiki, Robert W Aldridge, and Delan Devakumar. "International migration of unaccompanied minors: trends, health risks, and legal protection." The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health 5.12 (December 2021): 882-895.
Risse, Mathias. "The Fourth Generation of Human Rights: Epistemic Rights in Digital Lifeworlds." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-027, November 2021.
Grau-Grau, Marc, Mireia las Heras Maestro, and Hannah Riley Bowles. Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality: Healthcare, Social Policy, and Work Perspectives. Springer, 2021.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "Meditating on rights and responsibility: remarks on ‘the limits and burdens of rights’." International Theory 13.3 (November 2021): 574-580.
Kamm, Frances. "Meaning in Lives Nearing Their End." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 90 (October 2021): 277-296.
Bhabha, Jacqueline, Caroline Elkins, and Margareta Matache, eds. Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Price, Richard, and Kathryn Sikkink. Elements in International Relations. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Digidiki, Vasileia, and Jacqueline Bhabha. "Against the best interests of the child: the global injustice of migrant externalization." Handbook of Migration and Global Justice. Ed. Leanne Weber and Claudia Tazreiter. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, 100-118.
Matache, Margareta, Jennifer Leaning, and Jacqueline Bhabha. "Hatred against Roma in times of pandemic." Public Health, Mental Health, And Mass Atrocity Prevention. Ed. Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Caitlin O. Mahoney, Amy E. Meade, and Arlan F. Fuller. Routledge, 2021.
Risse, Mathias. "Artificial Intelligence and the Past, Present, and Future of Democracy." Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 7/28/2021.
Kessi, Shose, Zoe Marks, and Elelwani Ramugondo. "Decolonizing knowledge within and beyond the classroom." Critical African Studies 13.1 (June 2021): 1-9.
Chakraborty, Roshni, and Jacqueline Bhabha. "Fault Lines of Refugee Exclusion: Statelessness, Gender, and COVID-19 in South Asia." Health and Human Rights 23.1 (June 2021): 237-250.
Rodrik, Dani, and Stephen Walt. "How to Construct A New Global Order." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-013, May 2021.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "Practice What You Preach: Global Human Rights Leadership Begins at Home." Foreign Affairs, May/June.
Eck, Kristine and Dara Kay Cohen. "Who Says Yes or No? Models of Ethical and Safety Oversight for Student-Led Political Violence Research." PS: Political Science & Politics (May 2021).
Nordas, Ragnhild, and Dara Kay Cohen. "Conflict-Related Sexual Violence." Annual Review of Political Science 24 193-211.
Ruggie, John Gerard, Caroline Rees, and Rachel Davis. "Ten Years After: From UN Guiding Principles To Multi-Fiduciary Obligations." Business and Human Rights Journal (May 2021): 1-19.
Shattuck, John, and Kathryn Sikkink. "Practice What You Preach." Foreign Affairs 100.3 (May/June 2021): 150-160.
Chenoweth, Erica. Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Sikkink, Kathryn. "Introductory Remarks." Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 115 (March 2021): 257-265.
Bhabha, Jacqueline. "Reflections on Eric Weitz, A World Divided." Comment on A world divided: The global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states, by Eric D. Weitz. Journal of Genocide Research, 23.1, March 2021: 146-149.
Shattuck, John, and Mathias Risse. "Reimagining Rights & Responsibilities in the United States: Freedom of Speech and Media." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-004, March 2021.
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.