Evidence from Nigeria shows that protests can influence fiscal redistribution, but the manner and direction depend critically on the political relationship between disbursing governments and protesting regions.

Could frustration with billionaires and corporate power bring about a resurgence in American democracy? Taeku Lee, who has studied corporate scandals and how the ensuing outrage can spur legislative c...

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The Department of Government is pleased to celebrate the remarkable achievements of our senior thesis writers. This year’s award-winning original scholarship exemplifies the breadth, rigor, and public...

Collective Representation in Congress By Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard University and Shiro Kuriwaki, Yale University The aspiration of representative democracy is that the legislature will make decisions that reflect what the majority of people want. The [...]

The Department of Government is pleased to announce that Mitsuru Mukaigawara, a Ph.D. candidate in Government, has been selected as the 2026–27 Arleen Carlson and Edna Nelson Graduate Fellow at the Ha...

Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and chair of the Department of Government, has been named a Harvard College Professor – one of the University’s highest honors for excellence i...

Congratulations to Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, on two major international distinctions recognizing his contributions to comparative politics and political economy. H...

The Department of Government is pleased to congratulate Ph.D. Candidate Rochelle Sun, who has been awarded a highly competitive research grant from J-PAL’s Crime and Violence Initiative to support her...

Eight Harvard faculty are among the 252 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced on Wednesday.

Harvard Government Ph.D. candidate Juliette Marchant is building an alternative kind of archive. Through her podcast, Her Place in Theory, she spotlights different women – past and present – whose ide...

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has awarded Government Ph.D. Candidate Chinemelu Okafor its prestigious Dissertation Writing Grant for next semester. The grant is designed to release ...

A total of six faculty were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships this week, drawing financial support for research related to everything from political theory to works of historical fiction.

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Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee find that corporate scandals can often mobilize the public and wider interests to overcome big business power, including after the financial crisis.

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Faculty, students, and administrators came together in Lehman Hall on March 26, 2026, to honor mentors who have made a profound impact on the scholars and scientists they serve.

The judiciary is widely assumed to defend democracy. Yet in reality, even when independent of elected governments, courts can endanger democracy—sometimes by enabling executives and sometimes by…

How Democracies Die author and Harvard professor Steven Levitsky assesses Trump’s authoritarian regime’s next target: the 2026 midterm election and its impact on democracy and civil rights

Harvard Government Ph.D. Candidate Joaquim Meira has been awarded the Lee Whittinghill Samuelson Traveling Fellowship for the 2026–2027 academic year. The Samuelson Fellowship supports graduate studen...

Maui Island experienced a devastating wildfire in August 2023. Given the continued displacement in 2025 and growing threats from climate-related hazar…

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