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Are There Global Norms and Universal Standards of Electoral Integrity and Malpractice? Comparing Public and Expert Perceptions
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2012)
When international observers criticize the quality of elections, do these expert evaluations reflect ‘Western/American’ values? Or are there universal global norms of electoral integrity and malpractice which are shared ...
Secular and Liminal: Discovering Heterogeneity among Religious Nones
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
This study examines the stability of religious preference among people who claim no religious preference in national surveys (i.e., religious nones). Using data from the Faith Matters Study, General Social Survey, and ...
Reflections on the Jesuit Mission to China
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
With the explosive growth of transnational dealings, professionals in developed countries have expanding opportunities to spread their particular ways of doing things around the world. However, missionary work, whether ...
Level of Access and Competition in Broadband Markets
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
In this paper, we consider an unregulated incumbent who owns a broadband infrastructure and decides on how much access to provide to a potential entrant. The level of access, i.e., the network elements that are shared in ...
'The People Want the Fall of the Regime': Schooling, Political Protest, and the Economy
(Elsevier, 2014)
We provide evidence that economic circumstances are a key intermediating variable for understanding the relationship between schooling and political protest. Using the World Values Survey, we find that individuals with ...
Why it Worked: Critical Success Factors of a Financial Reform Project in Africa
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
Little is written about the critical success factors that make or break a project implementing a public financial management reform in Africa. Based on the twelve year experience of Harvard’s DSA project which transformed ...
Red, Blue, and the Flu: Media Self-Selection and Partisan Gaps in Swine Flu Vaccinations
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
This study assesses the relationship between political partisanship and attitudes and behavior with respect to the Swine Flu crisis of 2009 in general, and the U.S. mass vaccination program in particular. I argue that even ...
Muslim Integration into Western Cultures: Between Origins and Destinations
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)
To what extent do migrants carry their culture with them, and to what extent do they acquire the culture of their new home? The answer not only has important political implications; it also helps us understand the extent ...
American Indian Self-Determination: The Political Economy of a Policy that Works
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
Since the 1970s, federal American Indian policy in the United States has been aimed at promoting self-determination through self-governance by federally-recognized tribes. This policy has proven to be the only policy that ...
Making Democratic-Governance Work: The Consequences for Prosperity
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2011)
Does democratic governance expand wealth and prosperity? There is no consensus about this issue despite the fact that for more than half a century, rival theories about the regime-growth relationship have been repeatedly ...