Publications

With the efforts to downsize US public health infrastructure, a national conversation has emerged about how to use government resources efficiently while maintaining a robust…

Digital tools now enable crowds to assemble without formal organization, but their long-term impact is understudied. Drawing on 397 events and 15 months of fieldwork, this study…

Protests constitute a primary way that members of the public express their preferences. Focusing on policy protests in the United States, we use a survey experiment to study how…

A growing body of scholarship investigates the extent to which national partisan polarization filters down to the local level. There has been little evidence, however, on: (1) the…

Modern political campaigns decide who to contact using turnout-propensity scores. Practitioners have long argued that these scores “redline” low-scored communities, which…

Mass protest has reached record levels, yet the movements producing it have rarely been weaker. Why does so much participation leave so little behind? Most explanations center on…

Public policy is ubiquitous, yet its meaning is often unclear. This ambiguity is not just conceptual. Because policy work is a large part of what public administrations do, how we…

The North South Rail Link (NSRL) is a proposed underground tunnel connecting Boston’s North and South Stations, eliminating the one-mile gap that divides the regional rail network…

Seventy-six percent of Americans identify as sports fans, and sixty-three percent consider themselves passionate fans. We find that this shared identity powerfully reduces…

NPR's Debbie Elliot speaks with Linda Bilmes, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and expert of budgeting and public finance, about why the war between the U.S. and Iran has…