Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
Is the Constitution Broken?
Harvard legal scholars debate the state of our founding national document.
Crowdsourcing solutions
Harvard’s Crowd Innovation Lab studies what motivates crowds to solve problems.
Tax Collection and Civil Society
Paying Pakistani tax collectors for better performance to increase tax revenue
Harvard studies how spirituality affects patients’ experience at the end of life
A Harvard initiative studies how spirituality affects patients’ experience at the end of life
How surveillance changes people’s behavior
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
Open Book: Bare-Knuckle Politics
Contentious American democracy—in a new case-method history book
Michael Klarman reinterprets the American founding
The anti-democratic origins of the Constitution
Ukrainian-language collections housed at Harvard
One of the largest Ukrainian-language collections in the world, housed at Harvard
Center for Health and Happiness established at Harvard
Research aims to discover whether happiness improves physical health.
Global Health at Home offers innovative techniques to improve U.S. medical care
Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care
Death penalty critiqued by Carol and Jordan Steiker
Sibling scholars Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker seek to change how America thinks about capital punishment.