David Lazer

Associate Professor of Public Policy
Director,
Program on Networked Governance
Office Address
Taubman-362
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 114
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-0102
Fax: 617-496-1722
Email: David_Lazer@harvard.edu
David Lazer

Profile

David M.J. Lazer, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Program on Networked Governance, teaches courses on regulation and public management. Lazer has an overarching interest in the process by which connections emerge among actors and the consequences that the resultant network has for individuals and the system. He recently edited (with Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger) Government and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government. He has also written extensively on the use of DNA in the criminal justice system. Finally, he is an authority on social network analysis, with a series of papers on the diffusion of information among interest groups and between interest groups and the government. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan.

 

Courses

Spring

  • STM-504 Building Organizational Social Capital: Informal Networks Within & Between Organizations

Media Expertise

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Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Lazer, David. "Global and Domestic Governance: Modes of Interdependence in Regulatory Policymaking." European Law Journal 12.4 (July 2006): 455-468.
    • Lazer, David, and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. "Statutory Frameworks for Regulating Information Flows: Drawing Lessons for the DNA Data Banks from other Government Data Systems." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 34.2 (Summer 2006): 366-374.
    • Bieber, Frederick R., Charles H. Brenner, and David Lazer. "Finding Criminals Through DNA of Their Relatives." Science 312.5778 (June 2, 2006): 1315-1316.
    • Esterling, Kevin M., David Lazer, and Michael A. Neblo. "Home (Page) Style: Determinates of the Quality of the House Members' Web Sites." International Journal of Electronic Government Research 1.2 (April-June 2005).
    • Lazer, David. "Regulatory Capitalism as a Networked Order: The International System as an Informational Network." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 598.1 (March 2005): 52-66.
    • Katz, Nancy, David Lazer, Holly Arrow, and Noshir Contractor. "The Network Perspective on Teams." Small Group Research 35.3 (June 2004): 307-332.
    • Carpenter, Daniel, Kevin Esterling, and David Lazer. "Friends, Brokers, and Transitivity: Who Informs Whom in Washington Politics?" Journal of Politics 66.1 (February 2004): 224-246.
    • Carpenter, Daniel, Kevin Esterling, and David Lazer. "The Strength of Strong Ties: A Model of Contact-Making in Policy Networks with Evidence from U.S. Health Politics." Rationality & Society 15.4 (November 2003).
    • Lazer, David, and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. "Governing Networks: Telecommunication Deregulation in Europe and the United States.” Brooklyn Journal of International Law 27.3 (2002): 819-851.
    • Coglianese, Cary, and David Lazer. "Management-Based Regulation: Prescribing Private Management to Achieve Public Goals." Law and Society Review 37 (2003): 691-730.
    • Lazer, David, and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. "Staying Connected: Baby Boomers and the Internet." Harvard Generations Policy Journal 1 (Winter 2004): 67.
  • Book Chapters
    • Coglianese, Cary, and David Lazer. "Management-Based Regulatory Strategies." Market-Based Governance: Supply Side, Demand Side, Upside and Downside. Ed. John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye. Brookings Institution, 2002, 201-226.
    • Lazer, David. "Introduction: DNA and the Criminal Justice System." DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice. Ed. David Lazer. MIT Press, 2004.
    • Lazer, David, and Michelle Meyer. "DNA and the Criminal Justice System: Consensus and Debate." DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice. Ed. David Lazer. MIT Press, 2004.
    • Katz, Nancy, David Lazer, Holly Arrow, and Noshir Contractor. "The Network Perspective on Small Groups: Theory and Research." Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Marshall Scott Poole and Andrea B. Hollingshead. SAGE Publications, 2004, 277-312.
  • Edited Volumes
    • Lazer, David, ed. DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice. MIT Press, 2004.
  • Op-Eds
    • Bieber, Frederick R., and David Lazer. "Shaking the Family Tree." Provincetown Banner, January 26, 2005.
    • Lazer, David, and Frederick Bieber. "Guilt by Association." New Scientist, September 23, 2004.
    • Bieber, Frederick, and David Lazer. "Lessons Learned from a Miscarriage of Justice." Boston Globe, April 12, 2003.
    • Lazer, David, Frederick Bieber. "DNA Sweep Must Be Accompanied by Informed Consent." Provincetown Banner, January 20, 2005.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Lazer, David, and Allan Friedman. "The Parable of the Hare and the Tortoise: Small Worlds, Diversity, and System Performance." KSG Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP05-058, October 2005.
    • Coglianese, Cary, and David Lazer. "Management-Based Regulation: Prescribing Private Management to Achieve Public Goals." AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies Working Paper 02-11, November 2002.
    • Lazer, David. "Information and Innovation in a Networked World." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003.
    • Lazer, David, and Nancy Katz. "Regulating Opportunism: The Role of Embeddedness in Teams." Center for Public Leadership, 2003.
    • Lazer, David, and Nancy Katz. "Building Effective Intra-Organizational Networks: The Role of Teams." Center for Public Leadership, 2003.
  • Reviews
    • Lazer, David. Review of Reinventing Environmental Regulation: Lessons from Project XL, by Alfred A. Marcus, Donald A. Geffen, and Ken Sexton. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23.1 Winter 2004: 196-198.