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President Claudine Gay meets with the community in front of Massachusetts Hall in Harvard Yard

Grabbing cool treat on hot day — and selfie with new president

Break-the-ice cream socials at Business School, Med School, Yard draw hundreds

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DateJuly 12, 2023July 13, 2023

Georgia poll worker.

November surprise

Harvard analysts discuss Democrats’ ‘red wave’-defying performance, signs of desire for return to election normalcy

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DateNovember 9, 2022November 10, 2022

Maya Sen.

An emphasis on diversity in Biden’s first court nominees

Scholar notes mix of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and professional experience

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DateMarch 31, 2021April 1, 2021

Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office.

And now, the way forward

With Biden’s inauguration as starting line, analysts probe the challenges ahead, issue by issue, in this ‘rare and difficult hour’

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DateJanuary 20, 2021January 21, 2021

Ruth Bader Ginsburg casket at top of Supreme Court stairs.

How far right will Trump’s nominee move the Supreme Court?

Likely quite far, says political scientist who studies ideology among lawyers, judges

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DateSeptember 24, 2020September 25, 2020

Mid-term election night

And the winner is: Who you think it is

Each party has reasons to crow, as D.C. power realigns, analysts say

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DateNovember 7, 2018November 28, 2018

"[Supreme Court Justice Anthony] Kennedy occupies what we would call the median position on the Supreme Court. Colloquially, what that means is that he's basically the swing justice," said Maya Sen, associate professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Impact of Justice Kennedy's retirement examined

Harvard expert explains what it means for the future of the Supreme Court

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DateJune 28, 2018June 28, 2018

Harvard Kennedy School Associate Professor Maya Sen discusses her research into the political leanings of lawyers and argues that it is perfectly normal for attorneys hired by special counsel Robert Mueller to have donated to Democrats.

Gauging the bias of lawyers

Despite political affiliations or contributions, the only sure test of their fairness is their performance, associate professor says

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DateAugust 10, 2017August 14, 2017

“There’s a whole host of things going on in social psychology, psychology, and behavioral economics about how humans act and how preferences are formed” that can shed more light on “why politics is the way it is,” said Matthew Blackwell, an assistant professor of government in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences who has co-authored a new paper on how a person's political attitude is developed.

The art of political persuasion

New research says ‘cognitive dissonance’ helps to ingrain political attitudes

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DateJune 19, 2015

New political science research from Maya Sen (pictured) of the Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford University's Adam Bonica quantifies the political makeup of the nation’s judiciary. “The higher or more politically important the court, the more conservative it is, especially when compared to the overall population of attorneys,” the paper concludes.

The politics of jurisprudence

Conservatives lead upper ranks of judiciary, and liberals fare better in lower ones, research says

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DateFebruary 1, 2015July 26, 2019

“At some point, nobody outside the scientific community had ever heard of stem cells. Suddenly they were politicized within about 30 seconds of being mentioned in public discourse. Genomics doesn’t have that partisan valence — yet. We are convinced it’s going to,” said political scientist Jennifer Hochschild, who is researching how the politics surrounding genomics will develop.

To catch a killer

Examining the policy implications of genomics

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DateFebruary 17, 2011May 21, 2019