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
Nair, Gautam, and Federico Sturzenegger. "Great Dilution: The Global Impact of the US Inflation Shock on Sovereign Debt." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-009, July 2022.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, Diana Da In Lee, Yamil R. Velez, and Christopher Warshaw. "American Local Government Elections Database." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-013, September 2022 (rev. June 2023).
de Benedictis Kessner, Justin, Daniel Jones, and Christopher Warshaw. "How Partisanship in Cities Influences Housing Policy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-035, August 2022.
Resch, Tobias and Benjamin Schneer. "Policy Consequences of Civil Society: Evidence from German-American Counter-Mobilization to Prohibition." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-004, June 2022.
Wilkinson, Robert, and Kimberlyn Leary. "Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-029, April 2022.
King, David C., Benjamin Schneer, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Extreme Leaders As Negotiation Anchors." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-015, April 2022.
Alsan, Marcella, Katherine Eriksson, and Gregory Niemesh. "Understanding the Success of the Know-Nothing Party." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-035, November 2020.
Ang, Desmond, and Jonathan Tebes. "Civic Responses to Police Violence." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-033, October 2020.
de Benedictis-Kessner, Justin, and Maxwell Palmer. "Driving Turnout: The Effect of Car Ownership on Electoral Participation." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-032, October 2020.
Aldy, Joseph, and Robert N. Stavins. "Rolling the Dice in the Corridors of Power: William Nordhaus’s Impacts on Climate Change Policy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-022, July 2020.
Norris, Pippa. "What Maximizes Research Excellence? Productivity and Impact in Political Science." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-010, April 2020.
Norris, Pippa. "Silver or Lead? Why Violence and Corruption Limit Women’s Representation." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP19-011, 2019.
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
Ang, Desmond. "Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-033, October 2018.
Norris, Pippa. "Do Public Perceptions of Electoral Malpractice Undermine Democratic Satisfaction? The U.S. in Comparative Perspective." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-022, July 2018.
Norris, Pippa. "Understanding Brexit: Cultural Resentment versus Economic Grievances." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-021, July 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." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-048, December 2017.
Patterson, Thomas E. "News Coverage of Donald Trump’s First 100 Days." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-040, May 2017.
Wagner, Alexander F., Richard J. Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler. "Paths to Convergence: Stock Price Adjustment After the Trump Election Shock." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-039, September 2017 (Updated July 2018).
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." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-032, August 2017.
O'Sullivan, Meghan, Indra Overland, and David Sandalow. "The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-027, June 2017.
Wagner, Alexander F., Richard J. Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler. "Company Stock Reactions to the 2016 Election Shock: Trump, Taxes and Trade." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-005, February 2017.
Patterson, Thomas E. "News Coverage of the 2016 General Election: How the Press Failed the Voters." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-052, December 2016.
Patterson, Thomas E. "News Coverage of the 2016 National Conventions: Negative News, Lacking Context." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-051, September 2016.
Inglehart, Ronald, and Pippa Norris. "Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism: Economic Have-Nots and Cultural Backlash." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-026, August 2016.
Patterson, Thomas E. "News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Primaries: Horse Race Reporting Has Consequences." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-050, July 2016.
Patterson, Thomas E. "Pre-Primary News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Race: Trump’s Rise, Sanders’ Emergence, Clinton’s Struggle." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP16-023, June 2016.
Mukand, Sharun, and Dani Rodrik. "The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-052, September 2015.
Bonica, Adam, Adam S. Chilton, and Maya Sen. "The Political Ideologies of American Lawyers." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-049, August 2015.
Sen, Maya, and William Spaniel. "How Uncertainty about Judicial Nominees Can Distort the Confirmation Process." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-050, August 2015.
Norris, Pippa, and Holly Ann Garnett. "Voter Suppression or Voter Fraud in the 2014 US Elections?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-040, July 2015.
Glaeser, Edward L., and Cass R. Sunstein. "A Theory of Civil Disobedience." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-036, July 2015.
Norris, Pippa, Ferran Martínez i Coma, and Max Grömping. "The Year in Elections, 2014." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-008, February 2015.
Pierce, Lamar, Todd Rogers, and Jason A. Snyder. "Losing Hurts: The Happiness Impact of Partisan Electoral Loss." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-051, October 2014.
Rogers, Todd, and Don A. Moore. "The Motivating Power of Under-Confidence: “The Race is Close But We’re Losing”." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-047, October 2014.
Applbaum, Arthur Isak. "And They in Their Humanity Answer Me: Part 1." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-027, June 2014.
Risse, Mathias. "From Third World to First - What's Next? Singapore’s Obligations to the Rest of the World From a Human Rights Perspective." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-007, February 2014.
Risse, Mathias. "Taking up Space on Earth: Theorizing Territorial Rights, the Justification of States and Immigration from a Global Standpoint." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-008, February 2014.
Risse, Mathias. "On the Significance of Humanity’s Collective Ownership of the Earth for Immigration." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-009, February 2014.
Risse, Mathias. "Thinking About Justice." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-010, February 2014.
Nickerson, David W., and Todd Rogers. "Political Campaigns and Big Data." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-045, Revised February 2014.
Esterling, Kevin M., Archon Fung, and Taeku Lee. "Ideology, Deliberation and Persuasion within Small Groups: A Randomized Field Experiment on Fiscal Policy." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-036, September 2013.
Bailey, Michael, Daniel J. Hopkins, and Todd Rogers. "Unresponsive and Unpersuaded: The Unintended Consequences of Voter Persuasion Efforts." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-034, September 2013.
Rogers, Todd, and David W. Nickerson. "Can Inaccurate Beliefs About Incumbents be Changed? And Can Reframing Change Votes?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-018, May 2013.
Campante, Filipe R., Ruben Durante, and Francesco Sobbrio. "Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-014, May 2013.
Rogers, Todd, and Masa Aida. "Vote Self-Prediction Hardly Predicts Who Will Vote, And Is (Misleadingly) Unbiased." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-010, April 2013.
Masoud, Tarek. "Arabs Want Redistribution, So Why Don’t They Vote Left? Theory and Evidence from Egypt." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-007, April 2013.
Campante, Filipe R., Quoc-Anh Do, and Bernardo Guimaraes. "Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theory and Evidence." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-058, December 2012.
Rogers, Todd, and Masa Aida. "What Does “Intending to Vote” Mean?" vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-056, November 2012.
Saich, Anthony. "The Quality of Governance in China: The Citizen’s View." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-051, 2012.
Rogers, Todd, and Joel A. Middleton. "Are Ballot Initiative Outcomes Influenced by the Campaigns of Independent Groups? A Precinct-Randomized Field Experiment." vlog Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-049, November 2012 (Updated June 2013).