Sun Young Park has published a paper in Political Behavior, titled “Stereotyping Women with Sympathy: Youth Political Socialization in Mixed-Gender Environments”. The piece, published in April 2025, theorizes that gender compositions of peer environments influence stereotyping of women in political roles. Youth is a critical period where future citizens can develop both gender stereotypes and…
Feyaad Allie, Assistant Professor of Government, published an essay in the Journal of Democracy on elections, minorities, political parties in India. Over the past decade, India has been central to debates on democracy. Many viewed the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) underperformance in the 2024 election as a sign of democratic resilience. This essay argues instead…
Kiara Henandez, Ph.D. Candidate, Taeku Lee, Bae Family Professor of Government, and Marcel Roman, Assistant Professor of Government, published an article in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. Prior research shows that the pro-Trump, anti-democratic January 6th insurrection (J6) led to a short-term reduction in Republican support for President Trump. However, it remains unclear why the…
Marcel Roman co-authored an article for Perspectives on Politics titled “The George Floyd Effect: How Protests and Public Scrutiny Changed Police Behavior”. The murder of George Floyd in May 2020 sparked a wave of Black Lives Matter protests in many cities throughout the United States. Protesters’ demands ranged from constraints on police use of force…
Naijia Liu has co-published a research article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper showcases an experimental design that mimics the YouTube interface, and discusses how the authors were able to demonstrate that presenting people with more partisan video recommendations has no detectable polarizing effects on users’ attitudes in the short term. …
Ph.D. Candidate Brian Highsmith co-authored a paper with Maya Sen, Harvard Kennedy School, and Kathleen Thelen, MIT, in Perspectives on Politics. A growing literature has challenged some of the more influential accounts regarding the role of courts in the development of social and economic policy in the United States. We highlight some of the more…
Marco Mendoza Aviña co-authored a paper published in The Journal of Politics. The paper examines the replicability crisis in political science by analyzing over 16,000 hypothesis tests from nearly 2,000 articles, revealing that most studies are severely underpowered while also showing that experts significantly overestimate typical power levels in the discipline. The social sciences face…
The Department of Government is proud to announce that two of our Ph.D. candidates in political theory, Abbie LeBlanc and Jan-Paul Sandmann, have been selected as 2025–26 Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellows at Harvard’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. Abbie LeBlanc, a fourth-year graduate student, focuses on the history of political thought, particularly…
On Tuesday, April 8th, members of the Harvard Department of Government gathered at the 2025 Harvard Horizons Symposium to support and celebrate one of our own, Ph.D. candidate Andrew O’Donohue. Organized by Harvard Griffin GSAS, this prestigious annual event highlights the remarkable research of the selected 2025 Harvard Horizons Scholars, chosen by the Harvard Horizons…
Christina L. Davis examines the discriminatory logic at the heart of multilateralism. Overview Member selection is one of the defining elements of social organization, imposing categories on who we are and what we do. Discriminatory Clubs shows how international organizations are like social clubs, ones in which institutional rules and informal practices enable states to favor friends…
