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

Frankel, Jeffrey A. "The End of Republican Obstruction." Project Syndicate, January 19, 2015.
Bonica, Adam, and Maya Sen. "The Politics of Selecting the Bench from the Bar: The Legal Profession and Partisan Incentives to Politicize the Judiciary." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-001, January 2015.
Callen, Michael, and James D. Long. "Institutional Corruption and Election Fraud: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan." American Economic Review 105.1 (January 2015): 354-381.
Wright Rigueur, Leah. The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power. Princeton University Press, 2015.
Acharya, Avidit, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen. "The Political Legacy of American Slavery." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-057, December 2014.
Parker, Richard. "Election 2014: Surge or Theft?" The American Prospect. November 11, 2014.
Temkin, Moshik. "Ferguson, Human Rights, and America's Interests Abroad." Nation. October 9, 2014.
Bilmes, Linda J. "Can the U.S. Afford Another $3 Trillion War?" CNN, August 27, 2014.
Campante, Filipe R., and Quoc-Anh Do. "Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability, and Corruption: Evidence from US States." American Economic Review 104.8 (August 2014): 2456-2481.
Bilmes, Linda J. "Yesterday's VA is Serving Today's Veterans. Therein Lies the Problem." Cognoscenti, July 16, 2014.
Temkin, Moshik. "How to Kill the Death Penalty." Los Angeles Times, May 26, 2014.
O'Sullivan, Meghan, and Razzaq al-Saiedi. "Choosing an Electoral System: Iraq's Three Electoral Experiments, their Results, and their Political Implications." Belfer Center Discussion Paper, Harvard Kennedy School, April 2014.
Norris, Pippa, Richard W. Frank, and Ferran Martinez i Coma. "The Year in Elections 2013: The World's Flawed and Failed Contests." The Electoral Integrity Project, February 2014.
Norton, Mary Beth, Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard P. Chudacoff, Fredrik Logevall, and Beth Bailey. A People and A Nation: A History of the United States, 10th Edition. Cengage, 2014.
Porter, Roger B. "The Three Presidencies: Power and Policy." The Presidency and the Political System. Ed. Michael Nelson. CQ Press, 2013, 500-524.
Hausmann, Ricardo and Francisco R. Rodríguez, eds. Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse. Penn State University Press, 2013.
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).
Burns, Nicholas. "Celebrate our Commitment to Liberty." Boston Globe, July 4, 2013.
Parker, Richard. "After Boston: The Banality of Shock and Sentiment." The Nation. April 22, 2013.
Parker, Richard. "After Boston: The Banality of Shock and Sentiment." Nation, April 22, 2013.
Burns, Nicholas. "After the Boston Marathon Bomb Attacks: What We've Learned." Boston Globe, April 18, 2013.
Ignatieff, Michael. "Boston Shows Us Why We Will Never Accept the Fate That Results from Terrorism." Globe and Mail, April 17, 2013.
Baum, Matthew A. "The Iraq Coalition of the Willing and (Politically) Able: Party Systems, the Press, and Public Influence on Foreign Policy." American Journal of Political Science 57.2 (April 2013): 442-458.
Campante, Filipe R., and Daniel Hojman. "Media and Polarization: Evidence from the Introduction of Broadcast TV in the US." Journal of Public Economics 100 (April 2013): 79-92.
Mainwaring, Scott. Democracies and Dictatorship in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Norris, Pippa. "Democratic Deficits: The United States and Canada in Comparative Perspective." Imperfect Democracies: The Democratic Deficit in Canada and the United States. Ed. Patti Tamara Lenard and Richard Simeon. University Of British Colombia Press, 2012.
Mansbridge, Jane. "Outside Intervention in Nonviolent Revolutions." Jurist.org, September 11, 2012.
Kamarck, Elaine. "Are You Better Off Than You Were 4 Years Ago?" WBUR, September 11, 2012.
Baum, Matthew A. "Partisan Media and Attitude Polarization: The Case of Healthcare Reform." Regulatory Breakdown The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation. Ed. Cary Coglianese. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, 118-142.
Kamarck, Elaine, and Robert Reich. "American Political Futures: In Conversation with Elaine Kamarck and Robert Reich." Public Policy Research 19.3 (August-October 2012): 174-180.
Temkin, Moshik. "Cold War Culture and the Lingering Myth of Sacco and Vanzetti." Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War. Ed. Joel Isaac and Duncan Bell. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Kayyem, Juliette. "Michele Bachmann’s Anti-Muslim Paranoia." Boston Globe, July 19, 2012.
Kamarck, Elaine. "Why Romney Will Pick Portman." WBUR.org, July 18, 2012.
Scherer, F.M. "General Hamilton and Dr. Smith." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-029, July 2012.
Ganz, Marshall. "We Can Be Actors, Not Just Spectators." New Statesman, 141.5114, July 11, 2012, 52-54.
Keyssar, Alexander. "Do Away With the Electoral College." New York Times, July 8, 2012.
Keyssar, Alexander. "Voter Suppression Returns." Harvard Magazine. July 1, 2012.
Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson. "The Case for Compromise." Harvard Magazine. July 1, 2012.
Kayyem, Juliette. "An Emerging Democracy Requires More Than Just Elections." Boston Globe, June 25, 2012.
Glaeser, Edward L. "Does US Need Another Imperial President Like Lyndon Johnson?" Boston Globe, May 31, 2012.
Campante, Filipe R., and Quoc-Anh Do. "Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from US States." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP12-016, May 2012.
Nethercutt, George, and Richard Parker. "A National Call to Action on Citizenship Education." Seattle Times, May 10, 2012.
Baum, Matthew A. "Preaching to the Choir or Converting the Flock: Presidential Communication Strategies in the Age of Three Medias." iPolitics: Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Age. Ed. Richard Fox and Jennifer M. Ramos. Cambridge University Press, 2012, 183-205.
Summers, Lawrence H. "Romney’s Fiscal Fantasy Plan." Washington Post, April 26, 2012.
Kayyem, Juliette. "Ozzie Guillen: Why This Controversy, Now?" Boston Globe, April 12, 2012.
Renshon, Jonathan, Jennifer Lerner, and Philip Tetlock. "Why Don’t Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum Just Quit?" Washington Post, April 6, 2012.
Kamarck, Elaine. "The 2012 US Election - Through the Prism of the Economy." PublicServiceEurope.com, April 4, 2012.
Campbell, David E., and Robert D. Putnam. "God and Caesar in America." Foreign Affairs 91.2 (March/April 2012): 34-43.
Logevall, Fredrik. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. Random House, 2012.
Baum, Matthew A. "Red State, Blue State, Flu State: Media Self-Selection and Partisan Gaps in Swine Flu Vaccinations." Journal of Health Politics 36.6 (December 2011): 1021-1059.