Justin de Benedictis-Kessner

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Justin de Benedictis-Kessner
Faculty, Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Justin de Benedictis-Kessner is a political scientist and an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. His current research focuses on some of the most important policy areas that concern local governments, such as housing, transportation, policing, and economic development. His research also examines how citizens hold elected officials accountable, how representation translates the public’s interests into policy via elections, and how people’s policy opinions are formed and swayed.


Contact: 
jdbk@hks.harvard.edu
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