#  Daniel Carpenter 

Faculty Associate. 

Chair; Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** The political economy of government regulation and health; and petitioning in North American political development, examining comparisons and connections to petitioning histories in Europe and India.



 

 

 





 

 

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