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Why Bother Asking? The Limited Value of Self-Reported Vote Intention
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
How accurate are people when predicting whether they will vote? These self-predictions are used by political scientists to proxy for political motivation, and by public opinion researcher to predict election outcomes. Phone ...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Understanding Human Security
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
Since the end of the Cold War, security studies have broadened to take into account a wide range of non-military threats ranging from poverty to environmental concerns rather than just national defense. Security scholars, ...
Still Bowling Alone? The Post-9/11 Split
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
The crisis of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has sparked a surge of increased civic engagement by young people in the United States, but there is also evidence of a growing divide along class lines.
Motivating Voter Turnout by Invoking the Self
(National Academy of Sciences, 2011)
Three randomized experiments found that subtle linguistic cues have the power to increase voting and related behavior. The phrasing of survey items was varied to frame voting either as the enactment of a personal identity ...
Civil Society, Public Action and Accountability in Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2011)
This paper examines the potential role of civil society action in increasing state accountability for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. It further develops the analytical framework of the World Development Report 2004 on ...
Good Governance: The Inflation of an Idea
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
Good governance has grown rapidly to become a major ingredient in analyses of what’s missing in countries struggling for economic and political development. Intuitively and in research, good governance is a seductive ...
Governance Indicators Can Make Sense: Under-five Mortality Rates are an Example
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
Governance indicators have come under fire in recent years, especially the World Governance Indicators (WGIs). Critics present these indicators as a-theoretical and biased. Critics of the critics counter that no better ...
Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Career Civil Service Systems in Latin America
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
Patronage—the discretionary allocation of public sector jobs—continues to be a dominant way government is staffed in most Latin American countries and it is proving resistant to the imprecations of public sector reformers. ...
Sanctions, Benefits, and Rights: Three Faces of Accountability
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I suggest that democratic participation in local government is enhanced when citizens can ...
Foreign Policy Views and U.S Standing in the World
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)
What do Americans think about the US role in world affairs and why do they think the way they do? Americans typically do not think about foreign policy most of the time, and, as a consequence, know relatively little about ...