Authored by three of the USA’s most well-known scholars on American politics – Zoltan L. Hajnal, University of California, Vincent L. Hutchings, University of Michigan, and Taeku Lee, Harvard University – this undergraduate textbook argues that racial considerations are today – and have always been since the nation’s founding – central to understanding America’s political system writ large….
Race and class inequality are at the crux of many policy disputes in American cities. But are they the only factors driving political discord? In Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat, political scientist Jennifer L. Hochschild examines significant policies in four major American cities to determine when race and class shape city politics, when they do not,…
Marcel Roman, Assistant Professor of Government, has co-authored an article for The Washington Post with Amanda Sahar d’Urso, an assistant professor at Georgetown University’s Department of Government. The piece explains how “Critics of the term “Latinx” argue that only 4 percent of Hispanics use it because most are offended by how it anglicizes Spanish or signals elitism. Our research shows…
Ph.D. Candidate Sophia Anastazievsky has published an article in Ethics & International Affairs, titled “What We Owe to Ukrainians: A Moral Perspective on Nuclear Coercion and Military Intervention”. The piece discusses the moral obligations to intervene militarily in Ukraine to stop Russian human rights abuses and ensure that Ukraine achieves a military victory. Sophia argues that “Ukraine’s…
Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies, and Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, have published an op ed in the New York Times titled “There Are Four Anti-Trump Pathways We Failed to Take. There Is a Fifth.” The piece, which in itself has received much commentary, tackles the topic of authoritarianism…
María Ballesteros, Ph.D. candidate and a Minerva/USIP peace scholar fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, and Andrew O’Donohue, Ph.D. candidate and the Carl J. Friedrich fellow, have published a new article in Foreign Policy. On Sunday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed into law a contentious slate of constitutional amendments aimed at overhauling the country’s…
Rochelle Sun has contributed to an article in The Lancet on how the provision of healthcare in Haiti has been integrally challenged by tumultuous socio-political conflict over the past five years. Background There is limited data on the effectiveness of differentiated service delivery (DSD) for HIV care during sociopolitical turmoil. We assessed outcomes with a…
Stephanie Ternullo’s first book helps us understand why white voters in America’s heartland are shifting to the right. Overview Over the past several decades, predominantly White, postindustrial cities in America’s agriculture and manufacturing center have flipped from blue to red. Cities that were once part of the traditional Democratic New Deal coalition began to vote…
A new study – led by Stephen Ansolabehere, the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government – has launched as part of Harvard Climate Action Week (June 10-14), hosted by the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. The conference invites climate experts, leaders, and stakeholders to come together and explore solutions to the climate crisis’s most…
Understanding how local contexts determine why white voters in America’s heartland are shifting to the right is the driving force behind Stephanie Ternullo’s first published book How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics. Stephanie Ternullo is an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard, joining the department after…
