Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "DPI - Democracy, Politics, and Institutions"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Global Justice
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Increasing political and economic interconnectedness draws much philosophical attention to the question of the conditions under which such stringent claims arise. Do claims of justice arise only among those who share ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A New Era for Justice Sector Reform in Haiti
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)In the months before the January earthquake, Haiti and its criminal justice institutions were the subject of an unprecedented effort by two UN agencies to measure the state of the Rule of Law. Drawing on the results of ... -
'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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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.