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
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.
Baum, Matthew A., and Katherine Ognyanova. "Survey: Americans love conspiracy theories, and that’s dangerous for everyone." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. May 11, 2022.
Masoud, Tarek, A.Kadir Yildirim, and Peter Mandaville. "Will the Pandemic Spark a Religious Revival in the Muslim World?" Washington Post. April 2, 2021.
Ganz, Marshall. "The Role of Leadership in Cultivating Collective Democratic Voice." The American Prospect. February 26, 2021.
Nye, Jr., Joseph S. "What Now? A Symposium on the Future of the United States." National Interest. January/February 2021.
Power, Samantha. "The Can-Do Power: America’s Advantage and Biden’s Chance." Foreign Affairs. January/February 2021, 10-24.
Putnam, Robert D., and Shaylyn Romney Garrett. "America's Past Has Shown the Power of 'We.' Here's How We Can Revive It." Time.com. 12/03/2020.
Keyssar, Alexander. "How Has the Electoral College Survived for This Long?" New York Times. August 3, 2020.
Masoud, Tarek, and Aytug Sasmaz. "Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia is a mosque again. Do Turkish citizens want Erdogan to restore the caliphate?" Washington Post. July 24, 2020.
Power, Samantha. "How the COVID-19 Era Will Change National Security Forever." TIME. April 14, 2020.
Brodsky, Lauren. "4 Quick Tips to Improve Your Business Writing." Harvard Business Review. March 18, 2020.
Power, Samantha. "The Courage and Compassion of Catholic Activist Dorothy Day." Washington Post. March 6, 2020.
Gonzalez, Yanilda. "The Swinging Pendulum of Police Reform in the Americas." Current History. November 1, 2019.
Power, Samantha. "A Belated Recognition of Genocide by the House." New York Times. October 29, 2019.
Goldsmith, Stephen. "The Problem with One-Stop Government." Governing. August 19, 2019.
Goldsmith, Stephen. "Participatory Budgeting: A Powerful Civic Education Tool." Governing. June 18, 2019.
Barron, Carrie, Nicco Mele, and Michael Phillips Moskowitz. "Our Digital Lives Don’t Need to Make Us Unhappy, Unhealthy, and Unwise." Harvard Business Review. February 13, 2019.
Eaves, David. "Lessons from Estonia on Digital Government." Policy Options. February 7, 2019.
Eaves, David, and Kevin Frazier. "The Original Blitzscaler? What the Public Sector Can Teach High-Growth Startups." Apolitical. January 31, 2019.
Power, Samantha, and Betsy Fisher. "The Trump Administration Is Making a Mockery of the Supreme Court." New York Times. January 27, 2019.
Eaves, David, Richard Pope, and Ben McGuire. "Government as a Platform: How Policy Makers Should Think about the Foundations of Digital Public Infrastructure." Kennedy School Review. 2018-2019.
Carter, Ashton B. "How A Divided Congress Could Unite Around Tech." Politico. December 6, 2018.
Eaves, David, and Ben McGuire. "Digital Service Teams: The End of the Beginning?" Apolitical. November 29, 2018.
Power, Samantha. "How Baseball Will Survive in the Age of Distraction." Washington Post. April 26, 2018.
Power, Samantha. "How Mike Pompeo Could Save the State Department." New York Times. March 18, 2018.
Mayne, Quinton. "Cities on a Hill?" Boston Review. February 13, 2018.
Power, Samantha. "Why Foreign Propaganda Is More Dangerous Now." New York Times. September 19, 2017.
Power, Samantha. "Why Elie Wiesel's 'Night' Still Matters so Much to Me – and All of Us." Forward. September 12, 2017.
Bonica, Adam, Adam Chilton, and Maya Sen. "The Political Donations Made by Robert Mueller's Team are Not Evidence of Bias." Los Angeles Times. July 28, 2017.
Eaves, David. "Don't Believe the Hype: Procurement Reform is a Red Herring!" FCW (Federal Computer Week). June 5, 2017.
Eaves, David. "Do We Still Need Systems Integrators?" Federal Computer Week (FCW). May 1, 2017.
Power, Samantha. "My Friend, the Russian Ambassador." New York Times. February 25, 2017.
Norris, Pippa. "U.S. Elections Ranked Worst Among Western Democracies. Here's Why." Washington Post. March 29, 2016.
Ignatieff, Michael. "The Refugees and the New War." New York Review of Books. December 17, 2015.
Fagan, Mark. "How Money Talks." USA Today Magazine. November 2015.
Parker, Richard. "Greece on the Razor's Edge." The American Prospect. April 22, 2015.
Ignatieff, Michael. "The Hero Europe Needed." Atlantic. March 2015.
Greenstone, Michael, Janhavi Nilekani, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, Anant Sudarshan, and Anish Sugathan. "Lower Pollution, Longer Lives Life Expectancy Gains if India Reduced Particulate Matter Pollution." Economic and Political Weekly. February 21, 2015, 40-46.
Chen, Martha. "First Take: Waste -- Global Challenge, Latin American Lessons." ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America. Winter 2015.
Ignatieff, Michael. "El Nuevo Desorden Mundial (The New World Disorder)." Letras Libres. January 2015.
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.
Ignatieff, Michael. "The New World Disorder." New York Review of Books. September 25, 2014.
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "Fomenting a Rebellion: Teaching American History in the Clemente Course." Common-place. Fall 2014.
Kamm, Frances. "Taking Just War Seriously in Gaza." Boston Review. July 2014.
Sen, Maya. "How Not to Pick Judges." New York Times. May 2, 2014.
Ganz, Marshall. "Not the Cesar Chavez I Knew." Nation. April 1, 2014.
Pande, Rohini, and Petia Topalova. "Women In Charge." Finance & Development. June 2013.
Parker, Richard. "After Boston: The Banality of Shock and Sentiment." The Nation. April 22, 2013.
Seglin, Jeffrey. "We may speak resentment, but our actions reveal the truth." Chicago Tribune (Tribune Syndicate). January 10, 2013.