Workshops, Seminars & Classes

The GIS Institute is a two-week training course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its application to research. The program is designed for Harvard graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and staff, as well as external researchers who...

Speaker & Title Julius Wilson, title TBA Abstract TBA

Speaker & Title #1 Jing Ye, "The Embedded Welfare State: State Building and Government Expenditure on K-12 in the US" Abstract #1 The United States is often characterized as a liberal welfare state or a “hidden” welfare state. However, the traditional...

Speaker & Title Hayley Manges, "Parties as Organizations: Measuring Subnational Party Power in the Progressive Era" Abstract For much of U.S. history, the country’s two major parties operated as federations of relatively autonomous state and local...

Speaker & Title Matt Dardet, "Political Risk Aversion and Partisan Sorting in the American Electorate" Abstract How do voters’ calculations about and orientations towards risk affect American elections? In this paper, I develop and validate a new measure...

Speaker & Title António Câmara, "The Long Corrosion of Democratic Constraints in American Politics, 1873–2025" Abstract Democracy substitutes political competition for violence, but only if politicians accept institutions and a shared reality as...

Speaker & Title Aidan Connaughton, "Volunteer Bureaucrats, Public Meetings, and the Value of Public Comment" Abstract How do local policymakers incorporate public comment into their decision-making process? The propensity for public commenting is...

Speaker #1 David Beavers, "Spreading the News: Strategic News Sharing in Congressional e-Newsletters" Abstract Members of Congress increasingly communicate directly with constituents through digital channels such as e-newsletters. These communications...

Speaker & Title Jeremiah Cha, "Preaching to the (After School) Choir" (with Hunter E. Rendleman and Tyler Simko) Abstract When and why does race become central to public deliberation? Existing accounts assume a linear relationship between racial diversity...

Speaker & Title Jerry Min, "Nationality Bias in Regulatory Enforcement" Abstract Politicians attract foreign investors by promising fair regulatory standards and, in race-to-the-bottom competition for capital, often favorable ones. Yet such commitments...