News and Announcements

  • Government concentrators Sarah Akhtar, William Eger, Farha Faisal, Rachel Lipson, and Sara Plana from the graduating class of 2012 have won the prestigious Hoopes thesis prize. Congratulations! Sarah...
  • Professor Steve Ansolabehere has co-written the articles:  The Alternative Energy Future:  Challenges for Technological Change and The American Public's Energy Choice...
  • Eric Beerbohm was awarded the Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2011, and Arthur Spirling was awarded Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award.  
  • Using history as lens to explore how events occurred, what's next:
  • Sheena Chestnut Greitens, a PhD candidate within the Government Department, has written the article "A North Korean Corleone,"which appeared in the New York Times Sunday Review on March 3...

Faculty Spotlight

  • Kennedy School, Pierre Keller Visiting Professor

    Markus Jachtenfuchs is Pierre Keller Visiting Professor. He is also Professor of European and Global Governance at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. After studying political science in Mainz, Paris, Berlin and Bruges,...

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Grad Student Spotlight

  • PhD Candidate
    Comparative

    Didi Kuo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Her research interests include election fraud and clientelism, political parties, and electoral institutions. Her research has been funded by the Center for...

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