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Deals Versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions ... -
Decision Science Meets National Security: A Personal Perspective
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The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited & Revised
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2011)I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years ago, in 1978. Given the furor and controversy over the book immediately following its publication, I did not ... -
Decoding the Iran Nuclear Deal: Key Questions, Points of Divergence, Pros and Cons, Pending Legislation, and Essential Facts
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, 2015)On April 2, 2015, the EU (on behalf of the P5+1 countries) and Iran announced agreement on “key parameters” for a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran. The EU-Iran Joint Statement is buttressed by unilateral fact sheets ... -
Deliberative and Non-Deliberative Negotiations
(2009)Theorists in all three major branches of deliberative theory have traditionally excluded from the concept of deliberation simple convergence to an outcome as well as any form of negotiation. In a major reformulation of the ... -
Democratizing the Federal Regulatory Process: A Blueprint to Strengthen Equity, Dignity, and Civic Engagement through Executive Branch Action
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2021-10)While legislation tends to get more attention, the regulatory process within the executive branch is at the core of day-to-day democratic governance. Federal regulation and rule-making engages dozens of agencies and affects ... -
"Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists:" How Family History Shapes Immigration Policymaking
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-03)Does personal and family history influence legislative behavior in democracies? Linking members of Congress to the census, we observe countries of birth for members, their parents, and their grandparents, allowing us to ... -
Designing a Bretton Woods Institution to Address Climate Change
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)The information structure of the climate change policy collaboration problem necessitates the design of institutions to enhance public knowledge about nations’ commitments, policies, and outcomes. The international community ... -
Determinants of Agricultural and Mineral Commodity Prices
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)Prices of most agricultural and mineral commodities rose strongly in the past decade, peaking sharply in 2008. Popular explanations included strong global growth (especially from China and India), easy monetary policy (as ... -
Deterring and Compensating Oil Spill Catastrophes: The Need for Strict and Two-Tier Liablility
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill highlighted the glaring weakness in the current liability and regulatory regime for oil spills and for environmental catastrophes more broadly. This article proposes a new liability ... -
Developing Social Citizenship? A Case Study of Education and Health Services in Yantian Village, Guangdong
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)This paper uses a case study of the evolution of education and healthcare provision in Yantian Village, Guangdong Province to examine broader trends in China’s evolving social policies. It makes no claims that development ... -
Development as Leadership-led Change
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2010)Development involves change, but many development initiatives produce unimpressive results. The authors ask why and consider how to close the gap between the intended change and what we actually see in the evidence. This ... -
Diagnostics Before Prescription
(American Economic Association, 2010)Development economists should stop acting as categorical advocates (or detractors) for specific approaches to development. They should instead be diagnosticians, helping decisionmakers choose the right model (and remedy) ... -
Disgust Promotes Disposal: Souring the Status Quo
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Uinversiy, 2010)Humans naturally dispose of objects that disgust them. Is this phenomenon so deeply embedded that even incidental disgust – i.e., where the source of disgust is unrelated to a possessed object – triggers disposal? Two ... -
The Disgust-Promotes-Disposal Effect
(Springer, 2012)Individuals tend toward status quo bias: preferring existing options over new ones. There is a countervailing phenomenon: Humans naturally dispose of objects that disgust them, such as foul-smelling food. But what if the ... -
The Disparate Impacts of College Admissions Policies on Asian American Applicants
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-08)There is debate over whether Asian American students are admitted to selective colleges and universities at lower rates than white students with similar academic qualifications. However, there have been few empirical ... -
Disposition of Excess Highly Enriched Uranium
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Disposition of Excess Plutonium
(International Panel on Fissile Materials, 2007)