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Research and Policy Centers, Programs, and Institutes

• Roy and Lila Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
• Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
• Center for International Development
• Center for Public Leadership
• Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
• Institute of Politics
• Joint Center for Housing Studies
• Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
• Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
• A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government
• Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
• Women and Public Policy Program
  
  

  Roy and Lila Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation The Roy and Lila Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation fosters excellence in government around the world in order to generate and strengthen democracy. Through its research, publications, curriculum support, global network, and awards program, the Ash Institute explores critical issues in democratic practice and effective governance. By engaging a broad, global community in which knowledge is shared, by generating and supporting research and curriculum materials, and by highlighting exemplary government programs, the Institute serves as a catalyst for successfully addressing many of the world’s most pressing concerns and, in turn, improving the lives of its citizens. Four central programs support the mission of the Ash Institute: Knowledge Building Teaching and Training Global Network Innovations in American Government Awards Program Knowledge Building Knowledge Building is a hallmark of the Ash Institute’s continuing effort to catalyze innovation and explore the actual processes of democracy. Research results in papers, monographs, books, and case studies, used in the Kennedy School’s strategic management curriculum and in other programs. Dissemination occurs via the Government Innovators Network, conferences, and content presented through executive education programs so as to reach the broadest possible audience of public leaders. Each year the Ash Institute sponsors research awards for Kennedy School faculty and offers visiting scholar appointments. Teaching and Training The Ash Institute’s Teaching and Training program offers over 200 case studies taught at the Kennedy School and in public policy schools around the world, curriculum guides to courses at Harvard University on democracy and innovations, and an active program of support for KSG students. The institute also offers capacity building and training programs for practitioners in developed and developing countries. Global Network The Global Network is a worldwide community of leaders dedicated to creative and effective government. It includes sister programs in Brazil, Chile, China, East Africa, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, and Native American Tribes. The Global Network is supported by an online platform, Government Innovators Network, a dynamic means of sustaining a community of innovators in government, academia, research, the media, and private organizations. Innovations in American Government Awards Program The Innovations in American Government Awards Program identifies and promotes best practices and exemplary initiatives that can be replicated in other settings, providing public officials and senior executives with models for innovation at all levels and policy areas of American government. More than $19.2 million in awards have been presented to over 300 programs. Research The work of the Ash Institute is focused on identifying and exploring democratic governance and innovation. The Institute’s current research deals with the actual processes of democracy here in the United States and globally, examines how democratic institutions and processes are being adapted to diverse nations, and investigates the conditions for public innovation and best practices. Guided by its Faculty Advisory Committee, the Institute has identified four broad themes as its priority for the next few years: Democratic governance and innovations in plural (or divided) societies Democratic governments as guarantors of social justice Accountability in democratic governments Innovations as a means of strengthening democracy In the spring of 2004 the Institute announced a research competition open to all Kennedy School faculty, with priority given to those proposals that address democratic governance in pluralistic societies. In 2005 the Institute expanded the program to include grants for faculty research workshops which support small groups of senior and junior faculty seeking to collaborate on new ideas and to identify possible research directions on the most pressing challenges facing democracy today. Roy and Lila Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617.495.0557; Fax: 617.496.4602 E-mail: innovations@harvard.edu Web: http://www.innovations.harvard.edu Selected Publications Applbaum, Arthur. “Forcing a People to Be Free.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 34:4 (Fall 2007): 359–400. Culpepper, Pepper, and Archon Fung. “Do all Bridges Collapse? Possibilities for Democracy in the European Union.” Politische Vierteljahresschrift, No. 4 (December 2007): 721–727. Goldsmith, Stephen. “Chasing the Wrong Goals Faster.” December 19, 2007. http://www.governing.com/mgmt_insight.aspx?id=4680 Goldsmith, Stephen. “One Mayor’s Provocative Leadership Lessons.” October 31, 2007. http://www.governing.com/mgmt_insight.aspx?id=4484 Goldsmith, Stephen. “Managing Infrastructure Investment.” August 8, 2007. http://www.governing.com/mgmt_insight.aspx?id=4148 Goldsmith, Stephen. “Privatization: Transformation or Efficient Obsolescence?” May 2, 2007. http://www.governing.com/mgmt_insight.aspx?id=3940 Goldsmith, Stephen. “Governing By Network: What about Accountability?” April 25, 2007. http://www.governing.com/mgmt_insight.aspx?id=3938 Goldsmith, Stephen. “Governing By Network: The Answer to Pound’s Unanticipated Dissatisfaction.” Indiana Law Journal Supplement. Vol. 82 (2006–2007): 1243–1255. Goldsmith, Stephen. “Who should control a four-year-old’s education—the government or parents?” Education Next, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Summer 2007): 40–46. Goldsmith, Stephen. “The Feds vs. Innovation.” The Washington Post.com. August 18, 2007. Goldsmith, Stephen. “Local Innovation in 2006: A Focus on Partnerships.” The Municipal Yearbook 2007. International County Management Association (ICMA). 2007. Goldsmith, Stephen, and Henry G. Cisneros. “Affordability Gap Destroying Dream of Owning Home.” The Chicago Sun Times, April 28, 2007. Pittinsky, Todd, and Alexandra Messiter. “Crossing Sectors: Managing the Transition from Private to Public Leadership.” Leader to Leader, No. 45 (Summer 2007): 47–53. Rizvi, Gowher. “Making Democracy Work for the Poor in India.” Man & Development XXIX (September 2007): 1–14. Rizvi, Gowher. “Emergent India: Globalization, Democracy, and Social Justice.” International Journal LXII.4 (Autumn 2007). Rizvi, Gowher. “Building Trust in Government.” Seminar–New Delhi: “Experiments with Democracy: A Symposium on the Asian Experience with Democracy” (August 2007): 77–80. Rizvi, Gowher. “Reinventing Government: Putting Democracy and Social Justice Back into the Discourse.” Public Administration and Democratic Governance: Governments Serving Citizens. U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (April 2007): 89–135. Rizvi, Gowher. “Innovations in American Government: Some Observations and Lessons Learnt.” Administrative Innovation and Growth in an International Context. FORMEZ- Centro di Formazione Studi, Napoli, 2007. Back to Top Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is the hub of research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and natural resources, science and technology policy, and intrastate conflict at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. The Center’s mission is to provide leadership in advancing policy-relevant knowledge about the most important challenges of international security and other critical issues where science, technology, and international affairs intersect. The Belfer Center’s leadership begins with the recognition of science and technology as driving forces that transform international affairs. The Center integrates insights of social scientists, natural scientists, technologists, and practitioners with experience in government, diplomacy, the military, and business to address critical emerging issues in this space. The Center pursues its mission primarily through four major complementary research programs working in conjunction with a number of other smaller initiatives: The International Security Program (ISP) addresses the most pressing threats to U.S. national interests and international security, analyzing the forces shap¬ing these problems and identifying opportunities for effective intervention into the policy process. The Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) is the locus of Harvard’s interdisciplinary research on resource and environmental problems and policy responses. The Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP) examines how public policies shape the institutional use of technology for security, sustainability, and economic competitiveness. The Program on Intrastate Conflict seeks to identify practical ways to prevent and resolve ethnic, religious, and other conflicts and promote leadership and good governance in Africa, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.   The heart of the Belfer Center is its resident research community of scholars including Harvard faculty, analysts, practitioners, and each year a new, international, inter-disciplinary group of research fellows. The Center’s work is enriched by seminars, workshops, conferences, and discussions with distinguished visitors from the policy arena, colleagues from universities and research institutions, and affiliates at Harvard and in the greater Boston area. Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617.495.1400; Fax: 617.495.8963 Web: http://www.belfercenter.org Selected Publications Aldy, Joseph, and Robert N. Stavins, eds. Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, September 2007. Allison, Graham. “Apocalypse When?” The Three “No’s” Knows. The National Interest (November–December 2007). Arreguin-Toft, Ivan. “How to Lose a War on Terror: A Comparative Analysis of a Counterinsurgency Success and Failure.” Chap. 7 in Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War, pages 142–167, Contemporary Security Studies. Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2007. Barzegar, Kayhan. “Iran’s Foreign Policy towards Iraq and Syria.” New Faultlines Emerging in Central Eurasia—Global Implications. Turkish Policy Quarterly 6 2 (Summer 2007). Bielicki, Jeffrey, Aleksandra Kalinowski, and Lifeng Zhao. “Getting It Done: The Policy Environment in the U.S. and China.” Chap. 4 in Fundamentals of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology, pages 36–48, The Petroleum Economist, September 2007. Bielefeld, Tom and Hassan Abbas. “The Khan Job.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 63 4 (July/August 2007): 72–73. Bierbaum, Rosina, John P. Holdren, Michael MacCracken, Richard H. Moss, Peter H. Raven, et al. “Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable.” Sigma Xi / U.N. Foundation Expert Group Report on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, February 2007. Brown, Andrew. J.D. Bernal: The Sage of Science. (Paperback Edition). New York: Oxford University Press, April 2007. Bunn, Matthew. Securing the Bomb 2007. Cambridge, Mass. and Washington, D.C.: Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard University, and Nuclear Threat Initiative, September 26, 2007. Carter, Ashton B., Michael M. May, and William J. Perry. “The Day After: Action Following a Nuclear Blast in a U.S. City.” The Washington Quarterly 30 4 (Autumn 2007): 19–32. Dormandy, Xenia. “Is India, or Will It Be, a Responsible Stakeholder?” The Washington Quarterly 30 3 (Summer 2007): 117–130. Fein, Helen. Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers, August 2007. Gallagher, Kelly Sims, Gustavo Collantes, John P. Holdren, Henry Lee, and Robert Frosch. “Policy Options for Reducing Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector.” ETIP Discussion Paper. Cambridge, Mass.: Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Summer 2007. Juma, Calestous, Robert Paarlberg, Carl Pray, and Laurian Unnevehr. “Patterns of Political Support and Pathways to Final Impact.” AgBioForum: The Journal of AgroBiotechnology Management & Economics Special Issue: Biofortified Food Crops: Progress and Prospects in Developing Countries v.10 3 (2007): 201–207. Kamarck, Elaine C. The End of Government . . . As We Know It: Making Public Policy Work. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, May 2007. Lee, Henry, and Dan Shalmon. “Searching for Oil: China’s Oil Initiatives in the Middle East.” Cambridge, MA: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, January 2007. May, Ernest R., and Philip D. Zelikow, eds. with Kirsten Lundberg and Robert D. Johnson. Dealing with Dictators: Dilemmas of U.S. Diplomacy and Intelligence Analysis, 1945–1990. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, February 2007. Mayer-Schoenberger, Viktor, and David Lazer, eds. Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press, September 2007. Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. & Foreign Editions. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007. Miller, Steven E. “Proliferation, Disarmament and the Future of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.” Chap. 4 in Nuclear Proliferation and International Security, pages 50–69, (Routledge Global Security Studies). Oxon, UK: Routledge, April 2007. Nye, Joseph S., Jr. “American Foreign Policy After Iraq.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 27, 2007). Rotberg, Robert I., and Rachel M. Gisselquist. Strengthening African Governance: Ibrahim Index of African Governance: Results and Rankings. World Peace Foundation, 2007. Back to Top Carr Center for Human Rights Policy The mission of the Carr Center, like that of the Kennedy School, is to train future leaders for careers in public service and apply first-class research to the solution of public policy problems. Our research, teaching, and writing are guided by a commitment to make human rights principles central to the formulation of sound public policy in the United States and throughout the world. Founded in 1999 with a gift from Kennedy School alumnus Greg Carr, the Center has developed a unique focus of expertise on the most dangerous and intractable human rights challenges of the new century, including genocide, mass atrocity, state failure, and the ethics and politics of military intervention. In approaching such challenges, we seek to lead public policy debate, train human rights leaders, and partner with human rights organizations to help them respond to current and future challenges. We also recognize that solutions to such problems must involve not only human rights actors, but governments, corporations, the military, and others not traditionally conceived of as part of “human rights” efforts. Thus, we seek to expand the reach and relevance of human rights considerations to all who influence their outcomes. As an independent research center, the Carr Center offers a forum in which diverse views about human rights can be considered and seeks to draw new voices to the table, thereby extending and deepening the human rights dialogue. The Carr Center runs a range of programs on pressing human rights policy topics such as national security and human rights, measurement and impact in the human rights field, and responses to genocide and mass atrocities. Details regarding our teaching, outreach, engagement, research, and program areas are provided on our website. Carr Center for Human Rights Policy John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617.495.5819; Fax: 617.495.4297 E-mail: carr_center@ksg.harvard.edu Web: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp   Selected Publications Bhabha, Jacqueline. Seeking Asylum Alone: Unaccompanied and Separated Children and Refugee Protection: A Comparative Study of Laws, Policy and Practice in Australia, The United Kingdom and the United States of America (Themis Press). Co-authored with Mary Crock, 2007. Bhabha, Jacqueline. “Un Vide Juridique?—Migrant Children: The Rights and Wrongs.” In ed. Carole Bellamy and Jean Zermattern, Realizing the Rights of the Child (Ruffer and Rub) 206–220, 2007. Bhabha, Jacqueline. “Genered Chattels: Imported Child Labour and the Response to Child Trafficking.” In ed. M. Rajasekhar, Child Labour: Global Perspectives (Hyderabad: The Icfai UP) 55–77, 2007. Power, Samantha. “How to Stop Genocide in Iraq.” Los Angeles Times, March 5, 2007. Power, Samantha. “Our War on Terror.” New York Times, July 29, 2007. Available: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/books/review/Power-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin. Power, Samantha. “Access Denied.” Time Magazine, September 26, 2007. Available: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1665921,00.html. Power, Samantha. “The Human-Rights Vacuum.” Time Magazine, October 11, 2007. Available: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1670504,00.html. Power, Samantha. “Honesty is the Best Policy.” Time Magazine, October 18, 2007. Available: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1672790,00.html. Sewall, Sarah. Conference Report, Learning and Integration: Escalation of Force Procedures and Traffic Control Point Operations, editor. September 2007. Sewall, Sarah. “Crafting a New Counterinsurgency Doctrine.” Foreign Service Journal, September 2007. Sewall, Sarah. “A Radical Field Manual: Introduction to the University of Chicago Press Edition.” U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, July 2007. Sewall, Sarah. “Ethics on the Battlefield.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 2007. Sewall, Sarah. “A Heavy Hand in Afghanistan.” Boston Globe, June 15, 2007. Sewall, Sarah. “He Wrote the Book: Can He Follow It?” Washington Post, February 25, 2007. Sulmasy, Glenn. “A New Look for the War on al Qaeda.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 11, 2007. Sulmasy, Glenn. “National Security Should Not Have an Expiration Date.” Tampa Bay Tribune, February 2008.   Back to Top Center for International Development The Center for International Development (CID) is a university-wide center located in the Harvard Kennedy School. Its mission is to advance human well¬being and social progress in the developing world by expanding the understanding of development challenges and offering solutions to problems of global poverty. The goals of the Center for International Development are: To build an interdisciplinary network of scholars to analyze and address the challenges of developing societies; To improve the effectiveness of international development policies and institutions; and To educate and train the next generation of leaders in development science and practice. CID is home to multiple, faculty-led research initiatives and four major programs: The Growth Lab pulls together Harvard’s world-class talent on issues of eco¬nomic growth. It seeks to improve the capacity to expand the analytic grounds to diagnose the obstacles that constrain growth and what types of policy inter¬ventions may be called for, in each context. It takes a long-term, broad view of the growth process and is sensitive to its sustainability in social, environmental, institutional, and political dimensions. The Sustainability Science Program seeks to advance understanding of the dynamics of human-environment systems; to facilitate the design, implementation, and evaluation of practical interventions that promote sustainability in particular places and contexts; and to improve linkages between relevant research and innovation communities and relevant policy and management communities. The Micro-Development Initiative seeks to increase the value for money in policy-making using rigorous empirical evidence to identify causal effects of policy. It concerns itself with excellence in micro-development research and aims to support teaching by demonstrating ways in which policy can be developed through scientific assessment and evaluation, and to contribute to policy-making on the ground. The Mexico Program is an academic collaboration whose purposes include supporting a master’s program in public administration in Mexico; serving as a resource for curriculum development, teaching skills, cases, and professional development; and creating opportunities for HKS students and faculty to learn about Mexican public policy and management experience. Center for International Development John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617.495.4112; Fax: 617.496.8753 E-mail: cid@harvard.edu Web: http://www.cid.harvard.edu Selected Publications Banerjee, Abhijit V., and Rohini Pande. “Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption.” CID Working Paper No. 147. Center for International Development at Harvard University, July 2007. Chhatre, Ashwini. “Political Articulation and Accountability in Decentralization: Theory and Evidence from India.” CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 22. Center for International Development at Harvard University, November 2007. Clark, William C. “Sustainability Science: A Room of Its Own.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(6): 1737–1738, 6 February 2007. Frankel, Jeffrey. “On the Rand: Determinants of the South African Exchange Rate.” CID Working Paper No. 139. Center for International Development at Harvard University, March 2007. Hausmann, Ricardo, and Bailey Klinger. “The Structure of the Product Space and the Evolution of Comparative Advantage.” CID Working Paper No. 146. Center for International Development at Harvard University, April 2007. Hausmann, Ricardo, Laura D. Tyson, and Saadia Zahidi. The Global Gender Gap Report 2007. Geneva: World Economic Forum, 2007. Hidalgo, C. A., B. Klinger, A. L. Barabasi, and R. Hausmann. “The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations.” Science 317(5837): 482–487, (27 July 2007). Iyigun, Murat. “Monotheism (From a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective).” CID Working Paper No. 151. Center for International Development at Harvard University, October 2007 (Revised December 2007). Jack, B. Kelsey, Carolyn Kousky, and Katharine Emans Sims. “Lessons Relearned: Can Previous Research on Incentive-Based Mechanisms Point the Way for Payments for Ecosystem Services?” CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 15. Center for International Development at Harvard University, January 2007. Jensen, Robert T., and Nolan H. Miller. “Giffen Behavior: Theory and Evidence.” CID Working Paper No. 148. Center for International Development at Harvard University, July 2007. Klinger, Bailey, and Matthias Schündeln. “Can Entrepreneurial Activity be Taught? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Central America.” CID Working Paper No. 153. Center for International Development at Harvard University, December 2007. Lee, Henry, William Clark, Robert Lawrence, and Gloria Visconti. “Implications of a Future Global Biofuels Market for Economic Development and International Trade.” Report of a workshop held at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 9 May 2007. Matus, Kira J. M., Paul T. Anastas, William C. Clark, and Kai Itameri-Kinter. “Overcoming the Challenges to the Implementation of Green Chemistry.” CID Working Paper No. 155. Center for International Development at Harvard University, December 2007. McCleary, Rachel M., and Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp. “The Formation of the Tibetan State Religion: The Geluk School 1419–1642.” CID Working Paper No. 154. Center for International Development at Harvard University, December 2007 (Revised January 2008). Mwangi, Esther. Socioeconomic Change and Land Use in Africa: The Transformation of Property Rights in Maasailand. New York: Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2007. Palmer, Michael J., Charles K. Mann, and Guy Stuart. Si No Llueve (If It Doesn’t Rain) [documentary film]. Cambridge, MA: Development Communications Workshop, 2007. Peters, Pauline E., and Daimon Kambewa. “Whose Security? Deepening Social Conflict over ‘Customary’ Land in the Shadow of Land Tenure Reform in Malawi.” CID Working Paper No. 142. Center for International Development at Harvard University, March 2007. Rodrik, Dani. One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Varella Mollick, André, and René Cabral Torres. “Productivity Effects on Mexican Manufacturing Employment before and after NAFTA.” CID Working Paper No. 152. Center for International Development at Harvard University, November 2007. Zwane, Alix Peterson, and Michael Kremer. “What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review.” CID Working Paper No. 140. Center for International Development at Harvard University, March 2007.   Back to Top Center for Public Leadership The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) was established in 2000 with the generous support of the Wexner Foundation. Our mission is twofold: to help develop a new generation of public leaders for the common good and to advance the frontiers of knowledge about leadership. Initiatives to develop future leaders include four master’s-level fellowship programs; major conferences on the practice of leadership; study groups, workshops, and presentations for HKS students; and collaborations with organizations such as the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders program. Initiatives to advance the frontiers of leadership knowledge include faculty and graduate student research support and funding, leadership research conferences, and building a community of leadership scholars at Harvard and beyond. The Center’s major research initiatives in 2007 included: National Leadership Index (NLI) 2007 For the National Leadership Index, an annual research program of the Center, we survey more than 1,200 U.S. households about Americans’ confidence in the leadership of 11 sectors of our society. This year’s report included special sections on the presidential election and on public confidence in the media’s election coverage. The report has wide impact through downloads on the Web (over 14,000 in the first month), mailings to the leadership community, and media coverage, including radio interviews, articles in Congressional Quarterly and Editor & Publisher, and summaries in over 30 political blogs. Todd L. Pittinsky, CPL’s research director, serves as principal investigator, and Seth Rosenthal is lead author and co-investigator. Harvard Leadership Research Roundtable Coordinated by Professor Todd L. Pittinsky and research manager Owen Andrews, and open to all interested Harvard and Boston-area faculty and graduate students, the Roundtable sponsors lunchtime research presentations by eminent leadership studies scholars. Predoctoral Fellows Program Coordinated by Professor Todd L. Pittinsky, the predoctoral fellows program provides substantial financial support for the doctoral research of five students from across Harvard and encourages their participation in the Center’s scholarly community. In CPL predoctoral seminar series, the fellows present and discuss their leadership-related research with colleagues and faculty. “Leadership for the Common Good” Book Series This groundbreaking partnership between the Center and Harvard Business Press fosters books that enrich leadership theory and practice and set the agenda defining effective leadership in the future. Titles published in 2007 include Howard Gardner’s Five Minds for the Future and Michael Maccoby’s The Leaders We Need. Center for Public Leadership John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617.496.8866; Fax: 617.496.3337 E-Mail: cpl@ksg.harvard.edu Web: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/leadership Selected Publications Bowles, Hannah R., Linda Babcock, and Kathleen L. McGinn. “Social Incentives for Gender Differences in the Propensity to Initiate Negotiation: Sometimes It Does Hurt to Ask.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 103, 84–103 (2007). Gergen, David. “The Spirit of Teamwork.” U.S. News & World Report. November 12, 2007. Gergen, David. “Shadow Government: Inside the Bush Administration’s Sweeping, Often Secretive Efforts to Expand the Power of the Presidency.” Book review/essay on Charlie Savage, Takeover; Jack Goldsmith, Terror Presidency; John Dean, Broken Government; and Robert Draper, Dead Certain. Boston Globe. October 14, 2007. Han, Seunghee, Jennifer S. Lerner, and Dacher Keltner. “Feelings and Consumer Decision Making: The Appraisal–Tendency Framework.” Journal of Consumer Psychology 17.3 (2007): 158–168. Heifetz, Ronald. “The Scholarly/Practical Challenge of Leadership.” In Richard Couto, ed. Reflections on Leadership. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007. Heifetz, Ronald. “Leadership, Authority, and Women: A Man’s Challenge.” In Barbara Kellerman and Deborah L. Rhode, eds. Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change. Wiley, 2007, 311. Kellerman, Barbara. Followership: How Followers are Creating Change and Changing Leaders. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, January 2008. Kellerman, Barbara. Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change. Coeditor and contributor with Deborah Rhode. Jossey-Bass, 2007. Kellerman, Barbara. “What Every Leader Needs to Know—About Followers.” Harvard Business Review, December 2007. Lerner, Jennifer S., Ronald E. Dahl, Ahmed R. Hariri, and Shelley E. Taylor. “Facial Expressions of Emotion Reveal Neuroendocrine and Cardiovascular Stress.” Biological Psychiatry 61.2 (15 January 2007): 253–260. Nye, Joseph S., Jr. “Notes for a Soft Power Research Agenda.” In Felix Berenskoetter and M. J. Williams, eds., Power in World Politics. London: Routledge, 2007. Nye, Joseph S., Jr. “The Place of Soft Power in State-Based Conflict Management.” In Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, eds. Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007. Nye, Joseph S., Jr. “Culture, Soft Power, and ‘Americanization.’” In David Held and Henrietta Moore, eds. Cultural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainly, Solidarity and Innovation. London: Oneworld Publications, 2007. Pittinsky, Todd L., and Seth Rosenthal. The National Leadership Index 2007. Cambridge: Center for Public Leadership, 2007. Pittinsky, Todd. L., and Stefanie Simon. “Intergroup Leadership.” The Leadership Quarterly, 18(6): 586–605 (2007). Pittinsky, Todd L., R. Matthew Montoya, Linda R. Tropp, and Anna Chen. “How and When Leader Behavior Affects Intergroup Liking: Affect, Approval, and Allophilia.” Research on Managing Groups and Teams: Affect and Groups (Vol. 10). Ed. Elizabeth Mannix, Margaret A. Neale, and Cameron Anderson. Elsevier (2007): 125–144. Pittinsky, Todd. L., Laura M. Bacon, and Brian Welle. “The Great Women Theory of Leadership? Perils of Positive Stereotypes and Precarious Pedestals.” In B. Kellerman & D. Rhode, eds. Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change (93–125). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007. Zelleke, Andy. “Bush’s Game of Chess in Iraq.” Boston Globe, December 22, 2007. Zelleke, Andy. “America: Exceptional No More?” Christian Science Monitor, October 15, 2007. Zelleke, Andy. “When Not to Start a War.” Christian Science Monitor, September 11, 2007. Back to Top Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations is Harvard’s university-wide center for the study of nonprofit organizations and civil society, based at the Harvard Kennedy School. Established in 1997 with a generous grant from Rita and Gus Hauser, the Center seeks to expand understanding and accelerate critical thinking about civil society among scholars, practitioners, policy-makers and the general public, by encouraging scholarship, developing curriculum, and fostering mutual learning between academics and practitioners. Our goals within these areas include: Research: Ask and answer the critical questions regarding nonprofits and civil society, and articulate the implications of the findings. Education: Support the teaching of critical thinking and practical skills to those engaged with nonprofits and organizations of civil society. Practice: Advise nonprofits and organizations of civil society by linking leaders in the field to research. This academic year marks the 10th anniversary of the Hauser Center. As the Center starts its second decade, we will build on our base of teaching and research, engaging current and future leaders of nonprofit organizations and civil society movements worldwide in the work of the Center. We aim to engage scholars across Harvard’s faculties and schools, connecting them with a wide array of leaders of nonprofit organizations worldwide. To strengthen our service to the nonprofit field, we will concentrate in five specific domains: (a) international humanitarian organizations, (b) justice and human rights organizations, (c) arts, culture, and media organizations, (d) nonprofit organizations in China, and (e) philanthropic organizations. Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617.496.5675; Fax: 617.495.0996 E-mail: hauser_center@harvard.edu Web: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hauser Selected Publications Batliwala, Srilatha. “Taking the Power out of Empowerment.” Development in Practice, (Institute of Development Studies, October 2007). Brown, L. David. “Multiparty Social Action and Mutual Accountability.” In Alnoor Ebrahim and Edward Weisband (eds.) Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and Public Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007): 89–111. Brown, L. David, Mark Leach, and Jane G. Covey. “Organization Development for Social Change.” In Thomas G. Cummings (ed.) Handbook of Organization Development (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2008): 593–614. Buechel, Kathleen W., Elizabeth K. Keating and Clara Miller. Capital Ideas: From Short Term Engagement to Longer Term Sustainability, (The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations: Harvard University, and the Nonprofit Finance Fund, 2007). Chen, Martha, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, and Carol Richards, eds. Membership Based Organizations of the Poor (Routledge: Taylor & Francis, 2007). Ebrahim, Alnoor, and Edward Weisband, eds. Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Ebrahim, Alnoor, and Steve Herz. “Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society,” John F. Kennedy School of Government Faculty Research Working Paper #RWP07-060 available at: http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research /wpaper.nsf/RWP/RWP07-060, 2007. Fremont-Smith, Marion. “The Search for Greater Accountability of Nonprofit Organizations: Recent Legal Developments and Proposals for Change.” Fordham Law Review (Vol. 76, No 2, November 2007): 609–646. Fremont-Smith, Marion. Attorney General Oversight of Charities, Hauser Center Working Paper No. 41 (Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations: Harvard University, October 2007). Ganz, Marshall. “Organizing for Democratic Renewal” http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog /coffeehouse/2007/mar/27/organizing_for_democratic_renewal Ganz, Marshall. Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategy, Leadership, and the California Agricultural Movement (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2008). Hall, Peter Dobkin. “Setting, Landscape, Architecture, and the Creation of Civic Space in the United States, 1790–1920.” In Ram Cnaan & Carl Milofsky (eds.) Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations (New York, NY: Springer, 2007). Hall, Peter Dobkin. “Information Technology Utilization by Public and Private Agencies in New Haven, Connecticut, 1999–2004.” In Michael Cortes & Kevin Rafter (eds.) Nonprofits and Technology (Chicago, IL: Lyceum Books, 2007). Levitt, Peggy. God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape (The New Press. Edited Collections, 2007). Levitt, Peggy, and Sanjeev Khagram, eds. The Transnational Studies Reader: Intersections and Innovations (Routledge: Taylor & Francis, 2007). Mattie, John A., John H. McCarthy, Robert M. Turner, with Sandra L. Johnson, ed. Understanding Financial Statements: A Strategic Guide for Independent College and University Governing Boards (Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2nd Edition, 2007). Back to Top Institute of Politics Institute of Politics Harvard University’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, was established in 1966 as a memorial to President Kennedy. The IOP’s mission is to unite and engage students, particularly undergraduates, with academics, politicians, activists, and policymakers on a non¬partisan basis and to stimulate and nurture their interest in public service and leadership. The Institute strives to promote greater understanding and cooperation between the academic world and the world of politics and public affairs. Cutting-edge political research 2008 Younger Voter Exit Polling and Focus Group Analysis: In January and February of 2008, the Institute conducted cutting-edge younger voter research in three early presidential primary states. The IOP’s exit polling of youth in New Hampshire and focus groups with younger voters in South Carolina and Florida offer key indicators of issues important to America’s youth in the 2008 election. The IOP’s youth survey—examining political views of America’s 18- to 24-year-olds: The IOP has been nationally polling America’s college students on their political views since 2000, a survey that is unique in involving undergraduate students who help to develop questions and analyze data under direction of IOP staff. The biannual survey project was expanded in the fall of 2006 to include 18¬to 24-year-olds who do not currently attend a four-year college or university, providing an even more comprehensive look at this critical voting bloc. 2006 midterm election youth vote survey—gauging younger voter outreach efforts: Prior to the 2006 elections, the Institute polled nearly 60 Democratic and Republican political campaigns running in U.S. House, Senate, and governors’ races to determine how effectively campaigns were targeting younger voters in the midterm elections. This important data helped outline successful tactics and strategies utilized to court younger voters in 2006 and those that should be used in 2008. Policy groups program—supporting student policy research on hot-button topics: The IOP’s Student Policy Group Program was developed in 2004 to encourage undergraduate public policy research and advocacy. Each group is organized, managed, and led entirely by Harvard undergraduates and aims to develop comprehensive, yet specific, policy recommendations. The IOP helps present student recommendations to elected officials, scholars, and other experts. Institute of Politics John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617.495.1360; Fax: 617.495.1364 E-mail: iop@hcs.harvard.edu Web: http://www.iop.harvard.edu Selected Publication The Harvard Political Review is a nonpartisan, quarterly journal written and run entirely by Harvard undergraduates. The publication features articles about compelling domestic and international issues as well as interviews with political heavyweights from Karl Rove to Jesse Jackson. Back to Top Joint Center for Housing Studies The Joint Center for Housing Studies is Harvard University’s center for information and research on housing in the United States. The Joint Center analyzes the dynamic relationships between housing markets and economic, demographic, and social trends, providing leaders in government, business, and the non-profit sector with the knowledge needed to develop effective policies and strategies. Established in 1959, the Joint Center is a collaborative unit affiliated with the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. Through its rich array of research, education, and public outreach programs, the Joint Center serves as a convener for informed discussion on a broad range of issues in the housing sector of the nation’s economy. In doing so, it educates business leaders, government officials, policy-makers, and the public on critical and emerging factors affecting housing and our communities. Research The Joint Center investigates and evaluates emerging housing issues and community development policies. Its annual report, The State of the Nation’s Housing, identifies and analyzes domestic demographic, economic, and social trends to inform industry leaders and public officials and help them plan for the future. The Center also generates new information on housing and mortgage markets by analyzing large-scale databases, developing housing market indicators, and applying innovative analytical approaches to address housing needs. Education The Joint Center strengthens housing research and instruction at Harvard through the teaching activities of its members and through the support and training of graduate students, students in executive or other special programs, and visiting scholars from around the world. The Center’s speaker series and seminars provide the university with a focal point for housing-related research and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Outreach The Joint Center reaches beyond the University to promote national and international discussion of important housing policy issues. It convenes and collaborates on major conferences and symposia on topics of critical importance in the housing field, bringing together housing practitioners, researchers, and policymakers from diverse organizations and communities. The Center’s published reports, website, Working Paper series, and public lectures make significant housing research available and accessible to audiences both within and outside the University. Joint Center for Housing Studies Harvard University 1033 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617.495.7908; Fax 617.495.9957 E-mail: laurel_trayes@harvard.edu Web: http://www.jchs.harvard.edu Selected Publications Alexander, Frank S. “Louisiana Land Reform in the Storms’ Aftermath.” Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper W07-9, 2007. Apgar, William, Amal Bendimerad, and Ren S. Essene. Mortgage Market Channels and Fair Lending: An Analysis of HMDA Data. MM07-2, 2007. Belsky, Eric S., Rachel Bogardus Drew, and Daniel McCue. “Projecting the Underlying Demand for New Housing Units: Inferences from the Past, Assumptions about the Future.” Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper W07-7, 2007. Bendimerad, Amal. “Developing a Leading Indicator for the Remodeling Industry.” Joint Center for Housing Studies Research Note N07-1, 2007. Bendimerad, Amal. “A Long Term Outlook for Homeowner Remodeling Activity: Results and Implications.” Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper W07-6, 2007. Cisneros, Henry, Jack Kemp, Kent Colton, and Nicolas P. Retsinas. Our Communities, Our Homes: Pathways to Housing and Homeownership in America’s Cities and States. Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2007. Di, Zhu Xiao. “Growing Wealth, Inequality and Housing in the United States.” Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper W07-1, 2007. Essene, Ren S., and William Apgar. Understanding Mortgage Market Behavior: Creating Good Mortgage Options for all Americans. MM07-1, 2007. Felt, Emily. “Patching the Fabric of the Neighborhood: The Practical Challenges of Infill Housing Development for CDCs.” Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper W07-4, 2007. Joint Center for Housing Studies. “Foundations for Future Growth in the Remodeling Industry.” RO7-1, 2007. Joint Center for Housing Studies. “Revisiting Rental Housing Policy: Observations from a National Summit.” Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper W07-2, 2007. Joint Center for Housing Studies. The State of the Nation’s Housing 2007. SON-07, 2007. Madan, Renu. “Demystifying Outcome Measurement in Community Development.” Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper W07-5, 2007. McCue, Daniel, and Eric S. Belsky. “Why Do House Prices Fall? Perspectives on the Historical Drivers of Large Nominal House Price Decline.” Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper W07-3, 2007. Will, Abbe, and Kermit Baker. “The Performance of Remodeling Contractors in and Era of Industry Growth and Specialization.” Joint Center for Housing Studies Working Paper W07-8, 2007. Back to Top Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) conducts policy-oriented research, develops curricula, and promotes public understanding on the complex interrelationships between business and government. Asia Programs encompasses eight activities including the Vietnam Program, China Leaders in Development, and the AIDS Public Policy Training Project. These programs combine to generate and strengthen scholarly analysis of pub¬lic policy challenges in the Asia region and enhance Asia’s capacity for good governance. The Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative seeks to study and enhance the public role of private enterprise. It explores the intersection of corporate responsibility, public policy, and the media. It currently focuses on two core research streams: (1) corporate governance and accountability, and (2) business as partners in international development. The Fellows Program brings distinguished academics and practitioners to contribute to research or explore a facet of the intersection of business and government. The Harvard Electricity Policy Group provides a forum for the analysis and discussion of important policy issues regarding the U.S. electricity industry. It addresses key problems related to the transition to a more competitive electricity market, provides a forum for informed and open debate, and supplies a vehicle for contributing to the wider public policy agenda affecting the electric sector. The Harvard Environmental Economics Program brings together faculty and graduate students from across Harvard University to engage in research, teaching, and outreach efforts in environmental and natural resource economics and related public policy. The Health Care Delivery Policy Program seeks to understand the necessary changes to move the U.S. health care delivery system toward a structure that is effective, efficient, accessible, and integrated. By convening leaders of the major sectors in the health care delivery system and simultaneously undertaking cutting-edge research, HCDP cultivates innovative, cross-sector solutions to increase productivity and quality of health care services delivery. The Regulatory Policy Program addresses important policy issues affecting financial markets, transportation, manufacturing, the environment, energy, and other vital aspects of the global economy. The Trade and Negotiations Program seeks to improve trade policy-making through research, dissemination of ideas, and teaching. The program focuses on the dynamics of international trade negotiations, problems of global governance, and international dispute settlement procedures at the World Trade Organization. A central goal is to make the global trading system work better for developing countries. The Weil Program on Collaborative Governance conducts research to improve understanding of how collaborations form, operate, and perform. The central goal is to develop propositions that are empirically anchored, valid for important classes of collaboration, and useful for improving practice. Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617.384.7329; Fax: 617.496.0063 E-mail: Shannon_Murphy@ksg.harvard.edu Web: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg Selected Publications Chang, Julian, and Steven M. Goldstein, eds. Economic Reform and Cross-strait Relations: Taiwan and China in the WTO (Series on Contemporary China). World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007. Coglianese, Cary, and Jennifer Nash. “EPA’s Regulation of Heavy-Duty Diesel Engines: The Design and Implementation of a Performance-Based Regulation,” Regulatory Policy Program Report No. RPP-2007-11. Fagan, Mark. “Introducing Competition into Natural Monopoly Industries: An Evaluation of Mandated Access to Australian Freight Railroads,” Regulatory Policy Program Working Paper RPP-2007-05. Fagan, Mark, and Tamar Frankel. Trust and Honesty in the Real World: A Joint Course for Lawyers, Business People, and Regulators. Fathom Publishing Company, 2007. Grayson, David. “Business-Led Corporate Responsibility Coalitions: Learning from the Example of Business in the Community in the U.K.,” Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Cranfield School of Management, U.K. and Business in the Community, U.K., CSRI Report No. 26, 2007. Grossman, Jerome. “Physicians’ Work: How the Evolution of Medicine and Supporting Technology Allows for its Transfer to Professional Staff and Benefits Patients,” September 2007. Grossman, Jerome. “Quality, Affordable Health Care for All, Moving Beyond the Employer-Based Health-Insurance System,” prepared for the Committee for Economic Development, October 2007. Jenkins, Beth. “Expanding Economic Opportunity: The Role of Large Firms,” Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, CSRI Report No. 17, 2007. Kousky, Carolyn, Sam Walsh, and Richard Zeckhauser. “Options Contracts for Contingent Takings.” Issues in Legal Scholarship. Catastrophic Risks: Prevention, Compensation, and Recovery: Article 2, 2007 http://www.bepress.com/ils/iss10. Kramer, William J., Beth Jenkins, and Robert S. Katz. “The Role of the Information and Communications Technology Sector in Expanding Economic Opportunity,” Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, CSRI Report No. 22, 2007. Marion, Justin, and Erich Muehlegger. “Measuring Illegal Activity and the Effects of Regulatory Innovation: A Study of Diesel Fuel Tax Evasion,” Regulatory Policy Program Working Paper RPP-2007-02. Nelson, Jane. “The Operation of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in a World of Corporate and Other Codes of Conduct,” CSRI Working Paper No. 34, 2007. Rees, Caroline. “Overview of a Selection of Existing Accountability Mechanisms for Handling Complaints and Disputes,” CSRI Working Paper No. 37, June 2007. Rosengard, Jay K. “¿Qué Pasó? Failure of the Commercial Financial Sector to Deliver Microfinance Services in Mexico,” Paper Presented at the Forum on Microfinance, Monterrey, Mexico, November 2007. Rosengard, Jay K. (with assistance from the research team). “Paying for Urban Infrastructure and Services: A Comparative Study of Municipal Finance in Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai, and Jakarta” (Ha Noi: United Nations Development Programme and the Institute for Economic Research of Ho Chi Minh City, June 2007). Rosengard, Jay K., Richard H. Patten, Don E. Johnston, Jr., and Widjojo Koesoemo. “The Promise and the Peril of Microfinance Institutions in Indonesia,” Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, vol. 43, no. 1 (April 2007): 87–112. Ruggie, John. “Business and Human Rights: The Evolving International Agenda,” CSRI Working Paper No. 38, 2007. Stavins, Robert N. “Addressing Climate Change with a Comprehensive U.S. Cap-and-Trade System,” Regulatory Policy Program Working Paper: RPP-2007-07. Wise, Holly, and Sokol Shtylla. “The Role of the Extractive Sector in Expanding Economic Opportunity,” Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, CSRI Report No. 18, 2007. Zhang, Fan. “Does Electricity Restructuring Work? Evidence from the U.S. Nuclear Energy Industry,” Journal of Industrial Economics, LV (3) (September 2007): 399–419. Back to Top Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy The Shorenstein Center was established to promote a greater understanding of the media by public officials, improve coverage by media professionals of government and politics, better anticipate the consequences of public policies that affect the media and the First Amendment, and increase knowledge about how the media affect our political processes and governmental institutions. The Center includes a faculty of scholars and practitioners who, through their research and teaching programs, are creating a body of knowledge about press, politics and public policy in theory and in practice. Teaching – Faculty members affiliated with the Shorenstein Center teach in the Kennedy School’s degree programs. In addition to the introductory course on Press, Politics and Public Policy and the research seminar for MPP students, course topics include public opinion, political communication, the arts of com¬munication, and presidential campaigns. Research – Faculty members and resident Fellows pursue research in a broad range of areas related to the press and politics. The Center also leads the research component of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. Publications – The Shorenstein Center publishes research reports, papers, transcripts, an annual newsletter and other materials that are available on the Web site and in print format. Fellowship Program – The mission of the Fellowship Program is to advance research in the field of press, politics and public policy; provide an opportunity for reflection; facilitate a dialogue among scholars, journalists and policymakers; and create a vibrant and long-lasting community. Four Fellows are in residence each semester while they research and write a journal article, magazine essay or book. Goldsmith Awards in Political Journalism – The Goldsmith Awards Program seeks to encourage the best in political journalism. An annual ceremony at the Kennedy School includes the announcement of a major prize for the best investigative reporting piece of the year, two book prizes, and a career award for excellence in journalism. Applicants are drawn from all over the country, and selection committees run by the Shorenstein Center determine the winners and finalists. Public Programs – Weekly brown bag lunch speakers highlight the Center’s efforts to attract interesting scholars and practitioners who share their expertise with Kennedy School students throughout the academic year. The Center also sponsors a range of conferences and Forum events. The Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics is given annually by a distinguished journalist or politician. The David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism is awarded in conjunction with the White Lecture. Students – The Shorenstein Center seeks to engage students in the discussion of press and politics through courses taught by Center-affiliated faculty and through events with practitioners designed to enhance the curriculum. Kennedy School students may apply for research assistant positions, internships and other educational opportunities. The Center also offers a full-tuition scholarship for Kennedy School students. Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617.495.8269; Fax: 617.495.8696 Web: http://www.shorensteincenter.org Selected Publications Baum, Matthew. “Soft News and Foreign Policy: How Expanding the Audience Changes the Policies.” Japanese Journal of Political Science, 8(1): 109–138 (2007). Blendon, Robert J., John M. Benson, Catherine M. DesRoches, Kathleen J. Weldon, Kalahn Taylor-Clark, Channtal Fleischfresser. “Research on Americans’ Response to Bioterrorist Threats and Emerging Epidemics.” International Journal of Terrorism and Political Hot Spots, 2(1/2): 157–195 (2007). Blendon, Robert J., and John M. Benson. “How Americans View Their Lives.” Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, 50(3): 5–25 (May–June 2007). Blendon, Robert J. “One Academic’s Perspective on the Role of Health Affairs.” Health Affairs, 26(6): 1531–1533 (November/December 2007). Carroll, Jill. “Foreign News Coverage: The U.S. Media’s Undervalued Asset,” Shorenstein Center Working Paper #2007-1. Hart, Roderick P., Alex S. Jones, Thomas Kunkel, Nicholas Lemann, John Lavine, David M. Rubin, and Ernest Wilson. “A License for Local Reporting.” New York Times, December 22, 2007. Lewis, Chuck. “The Growing Importance of Nonprofit Journalism,” Shorenstein Center Working Paper #2007-3. Maier, Michael. “Journalism without Journalists: Vision or Caricature,” Shorenstein Center Discussion Paper #D-40, 2007. Patterson, Thomas. “Mandatory Testing and News in the Schools: Implications for Civic Education,” a Shorenstein Center Report for the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education, January 2007. Patterson, Thomas. “The Internet and the Threat It Poses to Local Media: Lessons from News in the Schools,” a Shorenstein Center Report for the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education, January 2007. Patterson, Thomas. “Young People and News,” a Shorenstein Center Report for the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education, July 2007. Patterson, Thomas. “Creative Destruction: An Exploratory Look at News on the Internet,” a Shorenstein Center Report for the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education, August 2007. Powers, Bill. “Hamlet’s Blackberry: Why Paper is Eternal,” Shorenstein Center Discussion Paper #D-39. Siegal, Allan. “Secrets about Secrets: The Backstage Conversations between Press and Government,” Shorenstein Center Working Paper #2007-2. Stein, Elizabeth. “Mainstream News Coverage: A Barometer of Government Tolerance for Anti-Regime Expression in Authoritarian Brazil,” Shorenstein Center Research Paper #R-31, 2007. Back to Top A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government A. Alfred Taubman Center for State and Local Government The Taubman Center, established in 1988, is the Kennedy School’s focal point for activities in urban policy, state and local governance, and federalism. Substantively, the Center is concerned with a number of policy areas: Urban economic development Land use, physical development, and infrastructure Politics and governance State, local, and intergovernmental finance Social capital and civic engagement Education policy Information technology and government Emergency preparedness and crisis management Labor-management relations Greater Boston governance and public policy Structurally, the Taubman Center houses several programs and is closely affiliated with the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston focuses on improved governance and public policy in greater Boston. The Institute marshals the resources of Boston area institutions of higher learn