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Partisan Alignment Increases Voter Turnout: Evidence from Redistricting

Partisan gerrymandering and polarization have created an electoral landscape where Americans increasingly reside in congressional districts dominated by one party. Are individuals more likely to vote ...
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Healthcare Policy Program Faculty

Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Physician in the Department of ...
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find it hard to make friends? These questions seem ...
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U.S.-Taiwan Relations in a New Era: Responding to a More Assertive China

Taiwan has inherent military value, and thus its fate will in large part determine the U.S. military’s ability to operate in the region. As Assistant Secretary of Defense Ely Ratner noted, “Taiwan is ...
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A decade from now, bitcoin is more likely to be $100 than $100,000

March 5, 2018, Video: "The likelihood of bitcoin prices falling to $100 is greater than that of the digital currency trading at $100,000 a decade from now, Harvard University professor and economist ...
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The Pandemic Depression: The Global Economy Will Never Be the Same - Carmen Reinhart

September/October 2020, Opinion: "The COVID-19 pandemic poses a once-in-a-generation threat to the world’s population. Although this is not the first disease outbreak to spread around the globe, it is ...
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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

“In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a ...
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Why Electoral Integrity Matters

Despite the growing concern about elections which fail around the world, there has been little systematic understanding of the importance of this phenomenon. Indeed past research has been fragmented ...
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AI, JUDGES AND JUDGEMENT: SETTING THE SCENE

Artificial intelligence (AI) in the administration of justice is growing at rapid pace. This is driven by widespread recognition of AI justice’s undeniable advantages, despite the risks it presents to ...
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Soft Power and the Public Diplomacy Revisited

Soft power is the ability to affect others to obtain the outcomes one wants through attraction and persuasion rather than coercion or payment. A country’s soft power rests on its resources of culture, ...
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Geography and Economic Development

This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies ...
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The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context, whether in the private or the public sector, many will feel threatened as ...