Politics - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jun 2012
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Harvard’s prescription for a broken American political system

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Political Forecasting as a Management Tool

By: James E. Austin and David Yoffie

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Government and Politics; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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2009
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Constructivism as an Approach to International Political Economy

By: Rawi Abdelal

This Handbook gives an overview of the range and scope of International Political Economy (IPE) scholarship by mapping the different regional schools of IPE and noting the distinctive way IPE is practiced and conceptualized around the world. The Handbook examines, in a... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Trade; Higher Education; Globalized Economies and Regions; Government and Politics

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14 Sep 2017
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Harvard Business School dissects the problems with U.S. politics

16 Aug 2011
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Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Christina Lubinski; Beauty & Cosmetics

08 Aug 2021
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Business Needs to Rethink Its Role in Politics

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International business and political risk in West Africa

This project, based on confidential corporate archives, explores the response of foreign companies to political decolonization and the threat of expropriation in Ghana and Nigeria. Foreign companies in Ghana and Nigeria, especially those from Britain, had a... View Details

2021
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Everyday Illiberalism: How Hungarian Subnational Politics Propel Single-Party Dominance

By: Laura Jakli and Matthew Stenberg

While numerous studies consider the roles that media consolidation, court-packing, and economic crises have played in Hungary's democratic decline since 2010, none have considered the subnational mechanisms driving illiberalism. This study examines the types of... View Details

Keywords: Democracy; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Hungary

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Note on Political Action Committees (PACs)

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Business and Government Relations

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2019
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Epilogue: Political Economy and the Social

By: Sophus A. Reinert

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September 6, 2012
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Why Boring Political Conventions Are Better

By: Gautam Mukunda

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21 May 2019
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Making Change Payments, Perspectives, and Politics

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Ethics & Politics of Emerging Technologies

In this stream of research, my collaborators and I investigate the ethical, political, and social implications of computational technologies.

In this work, I often collaborate with academic colleagues in computer science by helping to... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Algorithms; Computational Social Science

14 Sep 2017
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Political Failure Through a Business Lens

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

09 Feb 2017
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How should companies navigate polarized politics in the Trump era?

13 May 2010
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How to keep politics out of rating agency reform

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Why Competition in the Politics Industry Is Failing America

It is often said that "Washington is broken," but this reflects a common misunderstanding of the problem. Washington isn't broken--it is delivering exactly what its currently designed to deliver. The problem is that our political system is no longer designed to serve... View Details