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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

Elmendorf, Doug. "House to vote on budget to prevent shutdown." LiveNOW on FOX, March 11, 2025.
Elmendorf, Doug. "What does the House-passed budget resolution mean?" Harvard Kennedy School, March 5, 2025.
Dynan, Karen, and Doug Elmendorf. "Don’t look to efficiency for big deficit reductions." What awaits the Department of Government Efficiency? ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø experts on prospects for a radical new initiative, January 15, 2025.
Mayne, Quinton, and Yvette Peters. "Where you sit is where you stand: education-based descriptive representation and perceptions of democratic quality." West European Politics (May 2022).
Wilkinson, Robert, and Kimberlyn Leary. "Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-029, April 2022.
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, and Kathryn Carlson. "What the Next Mayor Needs to Do About Boston's Transportation Crisis." Boston Area Research Initiative White Paper Series, September 2021.
Bernhard, Rachel, and Justin de Benedictis Kessner. "Men and Women Candidates Are Similarly Persistent After Losing Elections." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118.26 (June 29, 2021).
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin. "Strategic Partisans: Electoral Motivations and Partisanship in Local Government Communication." Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 2.2 (June 2021): 227-248.
Cialdini, Robert, Jessica Lasky-Fink, Linda J. Demaine, Daniel W. Barrett, Brad J. Sagarin, and Todd Rogers. "oison Parasite Counter: Turning Duplicitous Mass Communications Into Self-Negating Memory-Retrieval Cues." Psychological Science (May 2021).
Ganz, Marshall. "The Role of Leadership in Cultivating Collective Democratic Voice." The American Prospect. February 26, 2021.
Kellerman, Barbara, and Todd L. Pittinsky. Leaders Who Lust: Power, Money, Sex, Success, Legitimacy, Legacy. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Cohen, Dara Kay, Connor Huff, and Robert Schub. "At War and at Home: The Consequences of US Women Combat Casualties." Journal of Conflict Resolution (October 29, 2020).
Logevall, Fredrik. JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956. Penguin Random House, 2020.
Goldsmith, Stephen. "The Problem with One-Stop Government." Governing. August 19, 2019.
Brooks, Arthur. Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt. Broadside Books, 2019.
O'Sullivan, Meghan. "Trump’s Iraq Visit Alone Won’t Undo Damage He Did Last Week." Bloomberg Opinion, December 26, 2018.
Mayne, Quinton. "Cities on a Hill?" Boston Review. February 13, 2018.
Bonica, Adam, and Maya Sen. "The Politics of Selecting the Bench from the Bar: The Legal Profession and Partisan Incentives to Introduce Ideology into Judicial Selection." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-048, December 2017.
White, Laura, Jean-Louis Rochet, Pete Mathias, Kate O’Gorman, and Linda J. Bilmes. "Connecting the Northeast: A Cost Estimate for the North South Rail Link." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-032, August 2017.
Temkin, Moshik. "Historians Shouldn’t Be Pundits." New York Times, June 26, 2017.
Mayne, Quinton, and Armen Hakhverdian. "Political Trust, Education, and Socialization." Handbook on Political Trust. Ed. Sonja Zmerli and Tom van der Meer. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017, 176-196.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "What is Ethical Foreign Policy Leadership." Ethics, the Heart of Leadership: Third Edition. Ed. Joanne Cuilla. Praeger, 2014, 208-222.
Porter, Roger B. "The Three Presidencies: Power and Policy." The Presidency and the Political System. Ed. Michael Nelson. CQ Press, 2013, 500-524.
Gergen, David. "Will President Obama Push Us Over the Cliff?" CNN.com, November 30, 2012.
Masoud, Tarek. "Don't Blame Muslim Brotherhood for Morsy Power Grab." CNN.com, November 27, 2012.
Rogers, Todd, and Michael L. Norton. "Don't Let Candidates Dodge Questions." CNN, October 15, 2012.
Masoud, Tarek. "Egypt’s Spymaster Candidate For President, Omar Suleiman." Newsweek, April 16, 2012.
Gergen, David. "Mitt Romney's Brand of Football." CNN.com, March 8, 2012.
Wright Rigueur, Leah. "The Black Cabinet: Economic Civil Rights in the Nixon Administration." Painting Dixie Red: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican. Ed. Glenn Feldman. University Press of Florida, 2011, 240-290.
Thompson, Dennis F. "Constitutional Character: Virtues and Vices in Presidential Leadership." Presidential Studies Quarterly 40.1 (March 2010): 23–37.
Walt, Stephen. "Restoring Solvency." American Review. December 2009.
Thompson, Dennis F. "Obama's Ethics Agenda: The Challenge of Coordinated Change." Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics 7.1 (March 2009).