Laura Jakli is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School (HBS).
Her primary expertise is in comparative politics and examines how information communication technologies shape political identity and behavior. Her dissertation won APSA’s Ernst B. Haas Award for the best dissertation on European politics. She is currently working on her book project, Engineering Extremism, which examines the role of popularity cues in political identity formation through experimental methods. Her related research examines a broad range of threats to democratic governance, including political apathy, exclusionary and ultranationalist attitudes, and misinformation.
Her published work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Democracy, Governance, International Studies Quarterly, Public Administration Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, and the Virginia Journal of International Law, along with an edited volume in Democratization (Oxford University Press).
Professor Jakli earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and worked as a research fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Before joining HBS, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
