Publications

WCFIA Publications

The Weatherhead Center has developed a presence on the Internet that, to a growing readership, is playing a significant role in the projection of Harvard scholarship on international affairs. The site includes: faculty research available through categorical fields of inquiry; searches by author, subject, title or date of publication; Working Papers selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs; In the News links to op-ed and other pieces written by or about the Center’s faculty associates; and recent books by faculty associates, including editorial summaries. The Center is always adding to the collection of published journal articles available on its site and responding to the interests of Center faculty and other users in making the site an indispensable scholarly tool.

Below are a selection of our most recently uploaded publications.


What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
by Sandel, Michael
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: April 2012 More

Leading With Dignity in the Workplace
by Hicks, Donna
Publisher: FOX News
Publication Type: Op-ed
My work has brought me up close to leaders of all kinds. There is one thing they share: highly developed technical and intellectual capacities, many of them graduates of some of the world’s most...
Published Date: March 2012 More
A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods
by Siegel, Jordan I.; Choudhury, Prithwiraj
One of the most rigorous methodologies in the corporate governance literature uses firms' reactions to industry shocks to characterize the quality of governance. This methodology can produce the...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: March 2012 More
Cases about Redefining Global Strategy
by Siegel, Jordan I.; Ghemawat, Pankaj
In Cases about Redefining Global Strategy Pankaj Ghemawat and Jordan Siegel have assembled 26 full-length case studies as a resource for active learning about the nature of cross-border differences...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: October 2011 More

The Rise of the States: U.S. Fiscal Decentralization in the Postwar Period
by Singhal, Monica; Baicker, Katherine; Clemens, Jeffrey
One of the most dramatic changes in the fiscal federalism landscape during the postwar period has been the rapid growth in state budgets, which almost tripled as a share of GDP and doubled as a share...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: June 2012 More
The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life
by Owen, E. Roger
The monarchical presidential regimes that prevailed in the Arab world for so long looked as though they would last indefinitely—until events in Tunisia and Egypt made clear their time was up. The...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: May 2012 More

Five Myths About Syria
by Owen, E. Roger
Publisher: The Washington Post
Publication Type: Op-ed
Syria’s uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, which began peacefully in Damascus a year ago, has become increasingly brutal and splintered. As the death toll nears 9,000, calls for...
Published Date: March 2012 More
Interview with Michèle Lamont and Nissim Mizrachi: Special Issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies
by Lamont, Michèle; Mizrachi, Nissim
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication Type: Interview
This is an interview with Michèle Lamont and Nissim Mizrachi about the special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies: Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspectives: Brazil, Canada, Israel,...
Published Date: March 2012 More
Special Issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies: Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspectives
by Lamont, Michèle; Mizrachi, Nissim
This special issue offers a first systematic qualitative cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond to stigmatization in a wide variety of contexts. This research is the...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: March 2012 More
A Statistical Method for Empirical Testing of Competing Theories
by Tingley, Dustin; Imai, Kosuke
Empirical testing of competing theories lies at the heart of social science research. We demonstrate that a well-known class of statistical models, called finite mixture models, provides an effective...
Publication Type: Published Paper
Published Date: December 2011 More
Re-Thinking Dionysius the Areopagite
by Stang, Charles
Dionysius the Areopagite, the early sixth-century Christian writer, bridged Christianity and neo-Platonist philosophy. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume surveys how...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: April 2009 More

Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite
by Stang, Charles
This book examines the writings of an early sixth-century Christian mystical theologian who wrote under the name of a convert of the apostle Paul, Dionysius the Areopagite. This 'Pseudo'-Dionysius...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: April 2012 More

Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life
by Skocpol, Theda
Pundits and social observers have voiced alarm each year as fewer Americans involve themselves in voluntary groups that meet regularly. Thousands of nonprofit groups have been launched in recent...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: March 2004 More

What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and The Struggle for Racial Equality
by Skocpol, Theda; Liazos, Ariane; Ganz, Marshall
From the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, millions of American men and women participated in fraternal associations—self-selecting brotherhoods and sisterhoods that provided aid to...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: August 2006 More

The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism
by Skocpol, Theda
The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical transformations: the emergence after 1960 of an increasingly activist state, and the rise of an assertive and...
Publication Type: Book
Published Date: July 2007 More