Crowd of Black Lives Matters demonstrators marching in the street.
Feature: The Democratic Necessity of Reckoning

Erica Chenoweth reviews scholarship that overwhelmingly shows the Black Lives Matter movement generated high levels of public awareness about systemic racism and increased support for criminal justice reform.

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Feature: Against Rule-of-Thumb Economics

Dani Rodrik argues against neoliberalism’s universal rule-of-thumb approach and for economic analyses grounded in contextual dependencies.

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Feature: Leaders’ Psychological Bravery

Dana Born explores what skills leaders need to cultivate psychological safety on their teams and across their organizations.

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Feature: Dollar vs. Euro as International Reserve Currencies

Jeffrey Frankel explores the strengths and weaknesses of using the Dollar and the Euro as international reserve currencies.

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

Can Democracy Be Saved?: Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements

Fung, Archon. "Can Democracy Be Saved?: Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements." Review of Can Democracy Be Saved?: Participation, Deliberation and Social Movements, by Donatella della Porta. Contemporary Sociology, 44.1, January 2015: 50-52.

Review of Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe

Fung, Archon. Review of Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe, by Xavier de Souza Briggs. City and Community, 9.1, March 2010: 132-134.

What Can We Learn from Social Science about Democracy in Europe?

Culpepper, Pepper D., and Archon Fung. "What Can We Learn from Social Science about Democracy in Europe?" Reaction to "What Can We Learn from the Collapse of the European Constitutional Project?" in Politische Vierteljahresschrift by Andrew Moravcsik Notre Europe: Etudes et Recherches, September 2006.

Review of Deliberation Day

Fung, Archon. Review of Deliberation Day, by Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 24.2 March 2005: 472-476.

Review of The Environment: Between Theory and Practice

Fung, Archon. Review of The Environment: Between Theory and Practice, by Avner De-Shalit. Environment, 44.5 June 2002: 37.

Why Do Expressive Campaigns Succeed and Fail?

Fung, Archon. "Why Do Expressive Campaigns Succeed and Fail?" Review of Eco-Wars: Political Campaigns and Social Movements, by Ronald Libby. Journal of Political Ecology: Case Studies in History and the Social Sciences, January 2001.

A Deeply Democratic Developmental State: The Socio-Political Basis of the Kerala Model

Fung, Archon. "A Deeply Democratic Developmental State: The Socio-Political Basis of the Kerala Model." Review of The Labor of Development: Workers and the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India, by Patrick Heller. Contemporary Sociology, 30.1 January 2001: 75-7.