Laura V. Jakli
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Laura Jakli is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School.
Her primary expertise is in comparative politics and examines how information communication technologies shape political identity and behavior. Her dissertation won APSA’s Ernst B. Haas Award for the best dissertation on European politics. She is currently working on her book project, Engineering Extremism, which examines the role of popularity cues in political identity formation through experimental methods. Her related research examines a broad range of threats to democratic governance, including political apathy, exclusionary and ultranationalist attitudes, and misinformation.
Her primary expertise is in comparative politics and examines how information communication technologies shape political identity and behavior. Her dissertation won APSA’s Ernst B. Haas Award for the best dissertation on European politics. She is currently working on her book project, Engineering Extremism, which examines the role of popularity cues in political identity formation through experimental methods. Her related research examines a broad range of threats to democratic governance, including political apathy, exclusionary and ultranationalist attitudes, and misinformation.
Business, Government and the International Economy
Laura Jakli is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School.
Her primary expertise is in comparative politics and examines how information communication technologies shape political identity and behavior. Her dissertation won APSA’s Ernst B. Haas Award for the best dissertation on European politics. She is currently working on her book project, Engineering Extremism, which examines the role of popularity cues in political identity formation through experimental methods. Her related research examines a broad range of threats to democratic governance, including political apathy, exclusionary attitudes, and misinformation.
Her published work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Democracy, Governance, International Studies Quarterly, Public Administration Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, Virginia Journal of International Law, and Democratization (Oxford University Press).
Professor Jakli earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and worked as a research fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Before joining HBS, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
More information available at LauraJakli.com
Her primary expertise is in comparative politics and examines how information communication technologies shape political identity and behavior. Her dissertation won APSA’s Ernst B. Haas Award for the best dissertation on European politics. She is currently working on her book project, Engineering Extremism, which examines the role of popularity cues in political identity formation through experimental methods. Her related research examines a broad range of threats to democratic governance, including political apathy, exclusionary attitudes, and misinformation.
Her published work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Democracy, Governance, International Studies Quarterly, Public Administration Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, Virginia Journal of International Law, and Democratization (Oxford University Press).
Professor Jakli earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and worked as a research fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Before joining HBS, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
More information available at LauraJakli.com
- Journal Articles
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- Jakli, Laura, Béla Greskovits, and Jason Wittenberg. "Asymmetric Mass Mobilization and the Vincibility of Democracy in Hungary." Comparative Political Studies (forthcoming). (Pre-published online January 10, 2025.) View Details
- Jakli, Laura. "East-Central Europe: The Young and the Far-Right." Journal of Democracy 35, no. 2 (April 2024): 65–79. View Details
- Linos, Katerina, Melissa Carlson, Laura Jakli, Nadia Dalma, Isabelle Cohen, Afroditi Veloudaki, and Stavros Nikiforos Spyrellis. "How Do Disadvantaged Groups Seek Information about Public Services? A Randomized Controlled Trial of Communication Technologies." Public Administration Review 82, no. 4 (July–August 2022): 708–720. View Details
- Jakli, Laura, and Matthew Stenberg. "Everyday Illiberalism: How Hungarian Subnational Politics Propel Single-Party Dominance." Governance 34, no. 2 (2021): 315–334. View Details
- Linos, Katerina, Laura Jakli, and Melissa Carlson. "Fundraising for Stigmatized Groups: A Text Message Donation Experiment." American Political Science Review 115, no. 1 (2021): 14–30. View Details
- Carlson, Melissa, Laura Jakli, and Katerina Linos. "Rumors and Refugees: How Government-Created Information Vacuums Undermine Effective Crisis Management." International Studies Quarterly 62, no. 3 (September 2018): 671–685. View Details
- Carlson, Melissa, Laura Jakli, and Katerina Linos. "Refugees Misdirected: How Information, Misinformation and Rumors Shape Refugees’ Access to Fundamental Rights." Virginia Journal of International Law 57, no. 3 (2017): 539–574. View Details
- Book Chapters
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- Jakli, Laura, M. Steven Fish, and Jason Wittenberg. "A Decade of Democratic Decline and Stagnation." Chap. 18 in Democratization. 2nd Edition by Christian Haerpfer, Patrick Bernhagen, Ronald Inglehart, and Christian Welzel. Oxford University Press, 2019. View Details
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Jakli, Laura, Jonas Meckling, and J. Gunnar Trumbull. "Fit for 55: Europe at a Climate Crossroads?" Harvard Business School Case 724-036, March 2024. View Details
- Other Publications and Materials
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- Jakli, Laura. "Review of 'Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy' by Lilliana Mason and Nathan P. Kalmoe (University of Chicago Press, 2022)." Public Opinion Quarterly 87, no. 1 (2023): 235–238. View Details