Department of Government

Newsletter

January 2017

A Letter from the Chair

Dear alumni of Harvard’s Government Department,

You hold in your (virtual) hands the first semi-annual newsletter from the Government Department, which I hope you will find interesting and informative. Our goal with this innovation is to develop stronger and more consistent relationships with our many Ph.D. alumni, who have fascinating jobs all over the world but who (we hope) retain a sense of connection with Harvard and the Government Department. The newsletter contains announcements of faculty accomplishments and awards, departmental events, and current or recent PhD student activities. Be sure to check out the video of the annual Christmas skit, produced by our multi-talented G2s.

I’d be delighted to hear from you – comments and responses? Other types of information that you’d like to see in a newsletter? Suggestions for the graduate program? Whatever… Please feel free to reach me at [email protected]

Thanks, and best wishes,

Jennifer

Jennifer L. Hochschild Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, and Professor of African and African American Studies

Immediate Past President, American Political Science Association Chair, Government Department

Government Department CGIS: 1737 Cambridge Street Cambridge MA 02138

Page | 1 List of Faculty Honors and Activities

Allen, Danielle Blackwell, Matt

University Professor of Government Assistant Professor

The paper "The Political Legacy of American Slavery" (with Avidit Acharya and Maya Sen) was awarded the Joseph L. Bernd Best JOP Paper Award for 2016 by the Southern Political Science Association

Cammett, Melanie

Professor of Government

o 2015 Giovanni Sartori Book Prize, Renowned political philosopher Danielle Allen APSA Section on Qualitative and has been named a University Professor, Multi-Method Research Harvard's highest faculty honor. o 2015 Honorable Mention, Gregory Luebbert Book Prize, APSA Section on http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/11/ Comparative Politics danielle-allen-named-university- o 2015 Honorable Mention, professor/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_mediu Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and m=email&utm_campaign=hag&utm_content=ud Voluntary Action Research of the o_all_alumni_2016-12-02 Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Bates, Bob

Eaton Professor of the Science of Government

o Book selected for Canto Series -- fifty best books published -- by Cambridge University Press o Inducted into National Academy of Sciences o Featured biographical essay, Annual Review of Political Science

Page | 2 Carpenter, Dan Enos, Ryan

Freed Professor of Government Associate Professor

o Chosen as the Julius Rothbaum o National Science Foundation (with Ken Distinguished Lecturer at the University Nakayama, Na Li, Krzysztof Gajos, Jeremy of Oklahoma in 2017. Past lecturers Wilmer, Timothy Brady, Justin Junge) include James MacGregor Burns, Richard “Collaborative Research: From Fenno, Morris Fiorina, Jennifer Knowledge Consumers to Knowledge Hochschild, Sam Huntington, Jack Providers: A Scalable Experiential Rakove, and Keith Learning Approach for Psychology and Whittington. Related Disciplines,” 2016 o Division of Social Science Tenure-Track o Mellon Foundation awarded Harvard a Manuscript Workshop Grant, 2016 grant, for which Dan serves as Principal o Princeton Center for the Study of Investigator, for the creation of a Digital Democratic Politics (CSDP) Fellowship, Archive of Native American Petitions in 2016–2017 (declined) Massachusetts. o Tenure-Track Faculty Publication Grant, 2016: TESS: Time-sharing Experiments for The Gazette ran a story on this grant earlier this the Social Sciences (with Riley Carney), year -- 2015: “Is Modern Racism Caused by Anti- http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016 Black Affect? An Experimental /02/a-hearing-for-pleas-to-right-wrongs/ Investigation of the Attitudes Measured by Modern Racism Scales” (research subjects) o Pershing Square Venture Fund for Dominguez, Jorge Research on the Foundations of Human Behavior, 2015: “Harvard Digital Lab for Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of the Social Sciences” Mexico o Boston Area Research Initiative (with Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Michael o Invited plenary speaker at the annual Hankinson, and Melissa Sands), meeting of the Mexican Political Science Association 2015: “Stimulating and Measuring Civic Engagement through the Introduction of o The Harvard Gazette – interview “Cuba Unclaimed Property in Public Spaces” Under Fidel’s Long Shadow” o Clark Award, 2015 http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor o Levenson Teaching Prize, finalist, 2015 y/2016/12/cuba-under-fidels-long- shadow/

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Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; and Professor of African and African American Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies o A three-year series of training Social Science Interview on Race in America in workshops in Chinese politics organized Social Science Space by the Harvard-Yenching Institute for advanced doctoral students and young http://www.socialsciencespace.com/2016/12/jen faculty members based at universities in nifer-hochschild-race-america/ Asia. The first, focused on using ethnographic and historical approaches to study contemporary Chinese politics, was held at Nanjing University in June 2015. The second, focused on using the China case to generate broader (empirical and normative) theories of politics, was held at Sun Yat-sen University in June 2016. The third, focused on studying Chinese politics in cross-national comparative perspective, will be held at Fudan University in June 2017. Lecturers at these workshops have Iversen, Torben included current and former members of the Harvard Government Department: Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Elizabeth Perry, Devesh Kapur, Prerna Economy Singh, Benjamin Read. Outstanding graduates of the workshops are invited o Rigmor and Carl Holst-Knudsens Science to spend a year in residence at HYI, Prize (one of Denmark's oldest awards working with faculty in Chinese politics at conferred annually by the University of Harvard and in the greater Boston area. Aarhus to honor two researchers, across disciplines. It comes with a 100,000 o Elected to the British Academy and will kroner cash prize). receive an honorary doctorate from the Hong Kong University of Science and o The BP Centennial Professorship in the Technology in November. Department of Government at the London School of Economics for the academic year 2016-17

Page | 4 Peterson, Paul Putnam, Bob

Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy

Harvard Magazine - article entitled Post- 2016 Enduring Achievement Regulatory School Reform Award of the Public Policy Section of the http://harvardmagazine.com/2016/09/post- American Political Science Association for his regulatory-school-reform book, “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”.

Pharr, Susan Rosenblum, Nancy Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Government Politics o Harvard Magazine piece on Nancy and on Japan Foundation Award for 2016, which her book, "Good Neighbors". recognizes individuals who through their artistic http://harvardmagazine.com/2016/09/d contribution or scholarship, along with their emocracy-of-everyday-life work in promoting intellectual and cultural exchanges, contribute to building ties between o 2016 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Japan and the rest of the world. Previous Mentoring Award recipient awardees include Senator William Fulbright, originator of the Fulbright Program; Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa; and writer Haruki Murakami. Scholars who have received the award include John Whitney Hall, Yale; Ronald Dore, Imperial College; Arthur Stockwin, Oxford; and Gerald Curtis, Columbia. Four Harvard faculty previously have been recipients: Serge Elisseeff (1973), founder of Japanese studies at Harvard; Edwin O. Reischauer(1975), University Professor and U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Ezra Vogel, Sociology (1996); and Akira Iriye, History (2013). The award was presented by Japan’s Foreign Minister in a ceremony in Tokyo in October.

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Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of George D. Markham Professor of Government Government Shepsle Festschrift Conference, London, o As an experiment using new technology November 12th to promote global public discourse, Michael's been working with the BBC to A one day conference in honor of Ken Shepsle launch a new series, "The Global on 'Political Economy, Formal Political Theory: The last 50 years, the Next 50'. The conference Philosopher." Using a high-tech studio with a wall of 60 video screens, they will survey the past and examine prospects for connect participants from around the the future of a. formal political theory, b. political world to debate the ethical questions economy and c. political science. underlying such issues as climate change, http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/ immigration and the moral status of events/2016/11/shepsle_festschrift_conference/ national borders, and meritocracy. The first three programs are available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07 5ft6f/clips

The Gazette - http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2 016/03/the-global-philosopher/

o The Harvard Gazette recently ran this interview/profile, including a photo of him in high school debating Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2 016/04/people-want-politics-to-be- Sweeney, Latanya about-big-things/ Professor of Government and Technology in Residence

New Currier House faculty dean appointment

The Harvard Gazette - http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/05/ new-faculty-deans-appointed/

Page | 6 Skocpol, Theda R may end up responsible for helping us to track developments in their home-town counties). Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology Harvard University We expect to learn a lot from this unique effort, started quickly so as to establish a baseline for Post-election analysis for Talking Points Memo post January changes”. of the Trump transition

OP-ED link: “The new research study -- launched by Kathy Subject: Behind "Make America Great," the Koch Swartz (School of Public Health), Mary Waters Agenda Returns with a Vengeance (Sociology), and me (Theda Skocpol, http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/behind- Government) -- aims to track and make sense of make-america-great-the-koch-agenda-returns- the playing out of policy and political shifts in with-a-vengeance eight nonmetropolitan counties where voters supported Trump in election 2016. We will track developments in two counties in each of four states, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, looking closely at changes in health and social spending programs, employment and jobs efforts, and other policies that impact local populations and communities. Collecting a combination of quantitative, interview, and ethnographic data on citizens and local institutions and businesses, we will examine, in each state, one county with a small city and another county that is less centered on even a small city. The core idea is that such nonmetropolitan areas tend to have older, less prosperous residents, low-wage economies, and health delivery institutions are often prominent local employers and civic players. What happens if and when big policy changes arrive? How do people and local leaders understand those changes and how do they react?

So far, we have a seed grant to get going from the Wiener Center and have applied to the Provost's Interfaculty fund and an outside source. Students are eager to get involve. We will hire both graduate RAs and undergraduates. Four Government undergraduates are already in process of joining the project (and some students

Page | 7 Snyder, Jim published some very influential work, i.e., the economics of the media". Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science

European Economic Association, announced that his paper (co-authored with Riccardo Puglisi), "The Balanced US Press", has been awarded the 2016 Hicks Tinbergen Award. This medal is awarded once every even years to the authors of an outstanding article published in the JEEA during the two preceding years.The 2016 Hicks- Tinbergen Award Committee, composed of Juuso Valimaki (Chair), Rachel Griffith and Eliana La Ferrra, has prepared the following motivation statement: "This paper proposes a novel methodology for measuring ideological bias by newspapers. The Tingley, Dustin key insight is that ballot propositions can be used Professor of Government to compare newspaper endorsements with the ex-post votes received by the proposition at the o American Political Science Association's polls. Newspapers that disagree with a majority 2016 Gladys M. Kammerer Award which of the voters on a proposition reveal to be to the is awarded annually for the best book left or to the right of the median voter: if a published during the previous calendar newspaper keeps endorsing left-wing issues that year in the field of U.S. national policy for lose at the polls, the newspaper is called left- the book “Sailing the Water's Edge: The wing. By averaging over multiple propositions the Domestic Politics of American Foreign authors estimate an index of conservatism for Policy”. each newspaper. Their results contrast with existing evidence that measured media bias by o 2016 winners of Society for Political locating newspapers relative to one another or to Methodology Gosnell Prize for paper, politicians. While previous evidence had "Sparse Estimation with Uncertainty: suggested that newspapers exhibited a leftward Subgroup Analysis in Large Dimensional bias, the current paper finds that on average Designs." with Marc Ratkovic newspapers are located at the median voter in their states. Interestingly, differences emerge o The Gosnell Prize for Excellence in across issues, with newspapers being more Political Methodology is awarded for the liberal than voters on social issues, and more best work in political methodology conservative on economic issues. In addition to presented at any political science the methodology and novel results, the paper conference during the preceding year. contributes to a literature in which JEEA has

Page | 8 Ziblatt, Daniel Professor of Government o Below is a link to his interview on NPR where he talks about his forthcoming book and discusses historical analogies to the election of Donald Trump - http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016 /12/07/trump-hitler-comparisons

o 2016 Summit on the Future of Europe

The Harvard Gazette’s article - http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2 016/11/desperate-but-not-hopeless- times/

Page | 9 A Post-Election Panel of Faculty from the Government Department

On November 29th Faculty from the Department of Government gathered to discuss what to expect in Trump’s America: Trump’s America: What’s Next?

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/8rgAG

The Gazette: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/11/likely-policies-under-trump/

Participants: Danielle Allen, Jeffry Frieden, Claudine Gay, , Steven Levitsky, Eric Nelson, Stephen Rosen

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Levitsky, Steven R. (Professor of Government), Ziblatt, Daniel (Professor of Government)

New York Times article “Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy? “ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/opinion/sunday/is-donald-trump-a-threat-to- democracy.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right- region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0

Frieden, Jeffry

Stanfield Professor of International Peace

Donald Trump’s campaign promises give us some idea of what to expect of his economic policies. The domestic measures he focused on in during the campaign, and which he has stressed since winning the election, include:

1. Substantial cuts to personal and corporate taxes

2. A freeze or cuts to Federal spending, except on the military and the elderly (Social Security and Medicare)

3. A substantial program of infrastructure development, totaling between half a trillion and a trillion dollars.

This will dramatically increase the Federal budget deficit, and provide a potentially substantial fiscal stimulus. Both the deficit increase and the stimulus are paradoxical. Republicans in Congress roundly criticized the Obama administration for budget deficits they regarded as excessive, and vigorously opposed attempts at a fiscal stimulus. However, Republicans in the legislature are likely to be more favorable to Republican deficits and a Republican stimulus. In addition, the electoral success of President-elect Trump seems to have convinced other Republican policymakers to fall into line behind his proposals.

Candidate Trump was also highly critical of Federal Reserve policy he regarded as too expansionary, railing against low interest rates that harmed savers. This, along with the fiscal expansion and the generally positive state of the economy, will undoubtedly lead the Fed to move in a more contractionary direction. The domestic economic- policy prospect, then, is for an expansionary fiscal policy and a more contractionary monetary policy. This is reminiscent of the first Reagan administration.

With respect to international economic policy, candidate Trump was open about his disdain for globalization, which he said “has made the financial elite who donate to politicians very, very wealthy...but it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache." He has threatened to impose an across-the-board 20 percent tariff on imports, and a 15 percent tax on overseas investment by American corporations. To be sure, these are only threats at this point. Nonetheless, the threats may be enough to accomplish at least some of President-elect Trump’s goals. Trading partners could be induced to exercise “voluntary” restraint on their exports; American CEOs may be much more reluctant to relocate production abroad.

There is a contradiction between the domestic and international components of President-elect Trump’s economic policies. The fiscal stimulus and increased budget deficit – especially if combined with tighter monetary policy – will lead to a substantial strengthening of the dollar. A stronger dollar will put important pressure on American firms competing with foreigners at home and abroad. This may heighten existing protectionist pressures. The contradictory effects of the Trump administration’s proposed economic policies are likely to present the administration with substantial challenges – challenges that will also affect the rest of the world.

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Sheena Chestnut Greitens (PhD 2013) will become the first lady of the state of Missouri on January 9th, 2017. As an IR- Comparativist, she learned a lot about American politics from the ground during a statewide campaign, and now looks forward to applying her training to her new role, where she plans to work on improving foster care and adoptive services and exploring the intersection between state-level and international politics. Her first book, “Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and

State Violence (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)” based on her dissertation, was published last year, and she continues to teach and do research as an assistant professor at the University of Missouri. She and Governor Greitens would be delighted to welcome any Harvard Government alumni who happen to pass through Missouri!

One of our current grad students, John Harpham, has been selected as a Harvard Horizon Scholar for the 2017-18 academic year. John was among eight PhD students whose ideas, innovations, and insights have the potential to reshape their disciplines. These students have been selected by the Harvard Horizons Faculty Fellows as representatives of the high aspirations and the extraordinary achievements of Harvard University’s PhD programs: https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/announcing-2017-horizons- scholars

Molly Roberts’ (PhD 2014) dissertation won a number of awards including 2015 APSA Division of Political Communication’s Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2015 Richard J. Herrnstein Prize for Dissertation, 2014 Edward M. Chase Prize.

She recently completed a virtual issue for Political Analysis, write up in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey- cage/wp/2016/05/27/heres-how-text-analysis-is-transforming-social- science-research/.

She was named 30 top thinkers under 30 last year by Pacific Standard: https://psmag.com/the-30-top-thinkers-under-30-the-coder- studying-the-effects-of-government-propaganda-and-censorship- 2c0e9a43eae4?gi=c3235665a932

Her book based off of her dissertation is about the impact of

Page | 12 censorship in China, provisionally titled: Rerouting the Masses: The Powerful Impact of Porous Censorship in China. Her research with Gary King and Jennifer Pan on China's 50 cent party was covered broadly in the news media, see example here: http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/05/19/chinas-online- propaganda-strategy-distract-and-conquer-new-study-says/

One of our current grad students, Stephen Pettigrew, in addition to his research on American politics, has worked on a variety of projects regarding sports analytics. This has allowed him to collaborate on research with professional teams and to write freelance pieces for media outlets like FiveThirtyEight and the Wall Street Journal. Given the many parallels between sports and electoral politics, which is his area of study, he has sought opportunities to bridge the gap between these two research interests. Prior to last summer's Olympics, he co-organized a conference called "Who Will Win in Rio?" The event brought together political scientists, statisticians, and economists whose work focuses on the political, economic, and on-field factors that make a country successful at the Olympic Games. If you're interested in reading more about his research, please visit his website: stephenpettigrew.com

One of our current PhD students in political philosophy, Rory Schacter, is teaching a year-long course “Ethics for Engineers” at MIT. The course integrates classical readings that provide an overview of ethics with a survey of case studies that focus on ethical problems arising in the practice of engineering. Readings taken from a variety of sources, such as Aristotle, Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, the Founding Fathers, and the Bible. Case studies include written analyses and films that address engineering disasters, biotechnology, court cases, ethical codes, and the ultimate scope and aims of engineering.

On October 21st – October 22nd the Department of Government hosted its 10th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory. The 2016 program (as well as the prior years’ programs) can be viewed by clicking on the link below http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/politicaltheoryconference/past-programs

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The holiday skit is viewable and downloadable here: https://goo.gl/O0cM5d (password - holidayskit)

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