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Maya Sen

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Harvard Kennedy School
Cambridge, MA 02138
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  • Welcome!

    I am a political scientist and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. My research interests include law, political economy, race and ethnic politics, and statistical methods. My research has been published in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Politics, and has been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Economist, National Public Radio, and other outlets.

    My newest book, The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary (with Adam Bonica), is now available from Cambridge University Press. My first book, Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics, is available from Princeton University Press and won the 2019 William H. Riker Book Award for best book published in political economy.

    At Harvard, I am the current director of the Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality & Social Policy, which brings together the social sciences in the study of poverty, inequality, and economic mobility. I am also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. 

    You can access my Google Scholar page here. A full description of my publications and working papers is here. My CV is here. I explain some of my research interests in this video.

Current Working Papers

  • How Judges' Professional Experience Impacts Case Outcomes: An Examination of Public Defenders and Criminal Sentencing
  • The Endgame of Court-Packing
  • The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari
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Publications By Year

  • Working Paper (3)
  • In Press (2)
  • 2022 (1)
  • 2021 (3)
  • 2019 (4)
  • 2018 (4)
  • 2017 (8)
  • 2016 (5)
  • 2015 (7)
  • 2014 (2)
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Recent Tweets

  • maya_sen
    maya_sen @cwarshaw thanks, Chris!
    11 hours 17 min ago.
  • maya_sen
    maya_sen My latest in Science, on how the U.S. Supreme Court got this ideologically extreme, and what can be done about it t.co/i5lSDIwJCh
    11 hours 29 min ago.
  • maya_sen
    maya_sen @NathanKalmoe I don’t disagree, but in my area (judicial reform) some of the loudest voices are those who think nothing should be done about the worsening disaster - sometimes experts have serious buy-in to the current system
    16 hours 17 min ago.
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