CAPS researchers address diverse questions with diverse approaches.
Danielle Allen
Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus, 2022
See in the Harvard LibraryDemocracy in the Time of Coronavirus, 2022. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus, 2022The World of Prometheus: the Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens, 2000
See in the Harvard Library The World of Prometheus: the politics of punishing in democratic Athens. Princeton University Press. 2000, reprinted 2002. | See at the Harvard Bookstore The World of Prometheus: the politics of punishing in democratic Athens. Princeton University Press. 2000, reprinted 2002.Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown v. Board of Education, 2004
See in the Harvard Library Talking to Strangers: anxieties of citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education. University of Chicago Press. 2004. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Talking to Strangers: anxieties of citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education. University of Chicago Press. 2004.Why Plato Wrote, 2010
See in the Harvard LibraryWhy Plato Wrote. Wiley-Blackwell. 2010. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Why Plato Wrote. Wiley-Blackwell. 2010.Education, Democracy, and Justice, 2013
Co-edited with Rob Reich
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, 2014
See in the Harvard LibraryOur Declaration: A reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. Norton/Liveright, 2014. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Our Declaration: A reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. Norton/Liveright, 2014.From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age, 2015
Co-edited with Jennifer Light
Education and Equality, 2016
See in the Harvard LibraryEducation and Equality. University of Chicago Press, 2016. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Education and Equality. University of Chicago Press, 2016.Cuz: An American Tragedy, 2017
See in the Harvard LibraryCuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. Norton/Liveright, 2017. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. Norton/Liveright, 2017.Steve Ansolabehere
American Government, 18th edition, 2020
With Ted Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg and Kenneth Shepsle
The End of Inequality: One Person, One Vote and the Transformation of American Politics, 1996
With James M. Snyder, Jr.
Going Negative: How Political Advertising Divides and Shrinks the American Electorate, 1993
With Shanto Iyengar
Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming, 2013
With David Konisky
Media Game: American Politics in the Television Age, 1992
With Roy Behr and Shanto Iyengar
Larry Bobo
Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute, 2006
With Mia Tuan
Urban Inequality: Evidence From Four Cities, 2001
With Alice O’Connor and Chris Tilly (eds.)
Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles, 2000
With Melvin L. Oliver, James H. Johnson, and Abel Valenzuela (eds.)
Racialized Politics: The Debate about Racism in America, 2000
With David O. Sears and James Sidanius (eds.)
Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations, 1997
With Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, and Maria Krysan
Daniel Carpenter
Democracy by Petition, 2021
See in the Harvard LibraryDemocracy by petitions | See at the Harvard Bookstore Democracy by petitionsPreventing Regulatory Capture, 2014
See in the Harvard LibraryPreventing regulatory capture | See at the Harvard Bookstore Preventing regulatory captureReputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA, 2010
See in the Harvard LibraryReputation and power: organizational image and pharmaceutical regulation at the FDA | See at the Harvard Bookstore Reputation and power: organizational image and pharmaceutical regulation at the FDAThe Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy, 2001
See in the Harvard LibraryThe forging of bureaucratic autonomy | See at the Harvard Bookstore The forging of bureaucratic autonomyGuy-Uriel Charles
Forthcoming: The American Promise: Rethinking Voting Rights Law and Policy for a Divided America
With Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Election Law in the American Political System, 2012
With James Gardner
Racial Justice and Law: Cases and Materials, 2016
With Ralph Richard Banks, Kim Forde-Mazrui and Cristina Rodriguez
The New Black: What Has Changed and What Has Not With Race In America, 2013
With Kenneth Mack
Race, Reform, and Regulation of The Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles In American Democracy, 2011
With Heather Gerken and Michael Kang
Ryan Enos
The Space Between Us, 2018
See in the Harvard LibraryThe Space Between Us, 2018. | See at the Harvard Bookstore The Space Between Us, 2018.Claudine Gay
Outsiders No More?: Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation, 2013
Edited with Jennifer Hochschild, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, and Michael Jones-Correa
Jennifer Hochschild
Genomic Politics, 2022
See in the Harvard LibraryGenomic Politics, 2022 | See at the Harvard Bookstore Genomic Politics, 2022Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics, 2015
With Katherine Levine Einstein
Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America, 2012
With Vesla Weaver and Traci Burch
Bringing Outsiders In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation, 2019
Co-edited with John Mollenkopf
The American Dream and the Public Schools, 2003
With Nathan Scovronick
Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation, 1995
See in the Harvard LibraryFacing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation. Princeton University Press, 1995 (paperback 1996) | See at the Harvard Bookstore Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation. Princeton University Press, 1995 (paperback 1996)Social Policies for Children, 1996
Co-edited with Sara McLanahan and Irwin Garfinkel
The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation, 1984
See in the Harvard LibraryThe New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation. Yale University Press, 1984 (hardcover and paperback) | See at the Harvard Bookstore The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation. Yale University Press, 1984 (hardcover and paperback)What’s Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice, 1981
See in the Harvard LibraryWhat’s Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice. Harvard University Press, 1981 | See at the Harvard Bookstore What’s Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice. Harvard University Press, 1981Thirty Years after Brown, 1985
See in the Harvard LibraryThirty Years after Brown. Washington, D.C.: Joint Center for Political Studies, 1985 | See at the Harvard Bookstore Thirty Years after Brown. Washington, D.C.: Joint Center for Political Studies, 1985Michele Lamont
Forthcoming: Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World
Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel, 2016
With Graziella Moraes Silva, Jessica Welburn, Joshua Guetzkow, Nissim Mizrachi, Hanna Herzog, and Elisa Reis
How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment, 2009
See in the Harvard LibraryHow Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2009. | See at the Harvard Bookstore How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2009.The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration, 2000
See in the Harvard LibraryThe Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration. Harvard University Press. 2000. | See at the Harvard Bookstore The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration. Harvard University Press. 2000.Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class, 1992
See in the Harvard LibraryMoney, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class. University of Chicago Press. (Morality and Society series, ed. by Alan Wolfe). 1992 (2nd edition) | See at the Harvard Bookstore Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class. University of Chicago Press. (Morality and Society series, ed. by Alan Wolfe). 1992 (2nd edition)Steve Levitsky
Forthcoming: Saving Democracy, 2023
With Daniel Ziblatt
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism, 2022
With Lucan A. Way
The Inclusionary Turn in Latin America, 2021
Co-edited with Diana Kapiszewski and Deborah Yashar
The Politics of Institutional Weakness: Lessons from Latin America, 2020
Co-edited with Daniel Brinks and María Victoria Murillo
Understanding Institutional Weakness: Power and Design in Latin American Institutions, 2019
With Daniel Brinks and María Victoria Murillo
How Democracies Die, 2016
With Daniel Ziblatt
Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America, 2011
Co-edited with James Loxton, Brandon Van Dyck, and Jorge I. Dominguez
The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, 2010
Edited with Kenneth M. Roberts
Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War, 2006
With Lucan A. Way
Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America, 2005
Edited with Gretchen Helmke
Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness, 2003
Edited with M. Victoria Murillo
Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective, 2003
See in the Harvard LibraryTransforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press.Harvey Mansfield
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction, 2010
See in the Harvard LibraryAlexis de Tocqueville: a very short introduction | See at the Harvard Bookstore Alexis de Tocqueville: a very short introductionManliness, 2006
See in the Harvard LibraryManliness | See at the Harvard Bookstore ManlinessA Students Guide to Political Philosophy, 2001
See in the Harvard LibraryA students guide to political philosophy | See at the Harvard Bookstore A students guide to political philosophyTocqueville and the Nature of Democracy, 1996
See in the Harvard LibraryTocqueville and the Nature of Democracy | See at the Harvard Bookstore Tocqueville and the Nature of DemocracyAmerica’s Constitutional Soul, 1993
See in the Harvard LibraryAmericas constitutional soul | See at the Harvard Bookstore Americas constitutional soulTaming the Prince, 1989
See in the Harvard LibraryTaming the prince | See at the Harvard Bookstore Taming the princeMachiavelli’s Virtue, 1998
See in the Harvard LibraryMachiavelli’s Virtue | See at the Harvard Bookstore Machiavelli’s VirtueMachiavelli’s New Modes and Orders, 2001
See in the Harvard LibraryMachiavelli’s new modes and orders | See at the Harvard Bookstore Machiavelli’s new modes and ordersThe Spirit of Liberalism, 2014
See in the Harvard LibraryThe spirit of liberalism | See at the Harvard Bookstore The spirit of liberalismStatesmanship and Party Government, A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke, 2013
See in the Harvard LibraryStatesmanship and Party Government, A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Statesmanship and Party Government, A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke.Eric Nelson
The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God, 2019
See in the Harvard LibraryThe Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God. Harvard/Belknap; 2019. | See at the Harvard Bookstore The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God. Harvard/Belknap; 2019.The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding, 2014
See in the Harvard LibraryThe Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding. Cambridge: Harvard/Belknap; 2014. | See at the Harvard Bookstore The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding. Cambridge: Harvard/Belknap; 2014.The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, 2010
See in the Harvard LibraryThe Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought. Harvard/Belknap; 2010 | See at the Harvard Bookstore The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought. Harvard/Belknap; 2010The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought, 2004
See in the Harvard LibraryThe Greek Tradition in Republican Thought. Cambridge University Press; 2004. | See at the Harvard Bookstore The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought. Cambridge University Press; 2004.Paul Peterson
Teachers Versus the Public: What Americans Think about Schools and How to Fix Them, 2014
With Michael Henderson and Martin R. West
Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School, 2013
See in the Harvard LibraryEndangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School, Brookings Institution Press, 2013. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School, Brookings Institution Press, 2013.The New American Democracy, 2011
With Morris P. Fiorina, Bertram Johnson and William G. Mayer
Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, 2010
See in the Harvard LibrarySaving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, Harvard University Press, 2010. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, Harvard University Press, 2010.The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools, 2006
With William G. Howell, Patrick J. Wolf and David E. Campbell
Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education, 2004
See in the Harvard LibraryCharters, Vouchers, and Public Education, 2004. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education, 1004.No Child Left Behind?: The Politics and Practice of School Accountability, 2003
See in the Harvard LibraryNo Child Left Behind? : The Politics and Practice of School Accountability, 2003 | See at the Harvard Bookstore No Child Left Behind? : The Politics and Practice of School Accountability, 2003The Price of Federalism, 1995
See in the Harvard LibraryThe Price of Federalism, Brookings Institutional Press, 1995. | See at the Harvard Bookstore The Price of Federalism, Brookings Institutional Press, 1995.Welfare Magnets: A Case for a National Welfare Standard, 1990
With Mark C. Rom
When Federalism Works, 1986
With Barry Rabe and Kenneth Wong
The Politics of School Reform, 1870-1940, 1985
See in the Harvard LibraryThe Politics of School Reform, 1870-1940, University of Chicago Press, 1985. | See at the Harvard Bookstore The Politics of School Reform, 1870-1940, University of Chicago Press, 1985.City Limits, 1981
See in the Harvard LibraryCity Limits, University of Chicago Press, 1981. | See at the Harvard Bookstore City Limits, University of Chicago Press, 1981.School Politics Chicago Style, 1976
See in the Harvard LibrarySchool Politics Chicago Style, University of Chicago Press, 1976. | See at the Harvard Bookstore School Politics Chicago Style, University of Chicago Press, 1976.Race and Authority in Urban Politics: Community Participation and the War on Poverty, 1976
With J. David Greenstone and Russell Sage
Theda Skocpol
Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party, 2023
See in the Harvard LibraryRust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party. Columbia University Press, 2023. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party. Columbia University Press, 2023. Columbia University Press, 2023.Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance, 2020
See in the Harvard LibraryUpending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance. Oxford University Press, 2020. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance. Oxford University Press, 2020.Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, 2016
See in the Harvard LibraryTea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. Oxford University Press, 2016. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. Oxford University Press, 2016.Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2010
With Lawrence Jacobs
States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China, 1979
See in the Harvard LibraryStates and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. | See at the Harvard Bookstore States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, 2003
See in the Harvard LibraryDiminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life. Rothbaum Series. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life. Rothbaum Series. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States, 1992
See in the Harvard LibraryProtecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.Social Revolutions in the Modern World, 1994
See in the Harvard LibrarySocial Revolutions in the Modern World. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Social Revolutions in the Modern World. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective, 1995
See in the Harvard LibrarySocial Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.State and Party in America’s New Deal, 1995
With Kenneth Finegold
Boomerang: Clinton’s Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics.
New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy, 2000
See in the Harvard LibraryThe Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy. A Century Foundation Book. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. | See at the Harvard Bookstore The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy. A Century Foundation Book. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality, 2006
With Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz
Obama and America’s Political Future, 2012
With commentaries by Larry M. Bartels, Mickey Edwards, and Suzanne Mettler
James M. Snyder
The End of Inequality: One Person, One Vote and the Transformation of American Politics, 1996
With Steve Ansolabehere
Primary Elections in the United States, 2021
With Shigeo Hirano
Nick Stephanopoulos
Election Law: Cases and Materials, 6th Edition, 2017
With Richard L. Hasen, Daniel H. Lowenstein, and Daniel P. Tokaji
Dustin Tingley
Forthcoming: Uncertain Futures: How to Solve the Climate Impasse, 2023
With Alex Gazmararian
Sailing the Water’s Edge: The Domestic Politics of American Foreign Policy, 2015
With Helen Milner
Daniel Ziblatt
Forthcoming: Saving Democracy, 2023
With Steve Levitsky
How Democracies Die, 2018
With Steven Levitsky
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy, 2017
See in the Harvard LibraryConservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge University Press) 2017. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge University Press) 2017.Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism, 2006
See in the Harvard LibraryStructuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press) 2006. | See at the Harvard Bookstore Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press) 2006.