“There is an element that taps into people’s insecurities, real or imagined, in terms of whether another group is doing better, what does this mean for me, what does it

“Hooked: How Politics Captures People’s Interest” uses data from three decades in four Western democracies to explain political interest. Markus Prior sat down with B. Rose Huber to preview the

Layna Mosley will serve as the next co-editor-in-chief of International Organization, a journal covering the field of international affairs, beginning July 1, 2022.

PhD student Will Freeman and co-author Paul J. Angelo discuss the demographic shifts redefining governments in Latin America.

Wafa Zaka, who is concentrating in Politics and pursuing a certificate in the history and practice of diplomacy, has won the Rhodes Scholarship. Zaka will pursue an MSt in Global

Iaryczower's is one of ten interdisciplinary research projects that have won funding from Princeton University’s Schmidt DataX Fund with the goal of spreading and deepening the use of artificial intelligence

In a New York Times opinion article, Politics alum Killian Clarke and his coauthor Mai Hassan argue that "all is not lost" in Sudan despite an unsettling, on-going coup.

Patricia Kirkland's findings were published in the Urban Affairs Reviews.

Melissa Lane sat down with the Future Hindsight podcast to talk about the history of a particularly important and consequential idea in the history of political thought: the social contract.

PhD student Zenobia Chan was named a Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellow by the U.S. Institute of Peace. She will be funded by Minerva Research Initiative to work on her dissertation

Leonard Wantchekon was awarded an honorary doctorate in economics from Laval University.

In a Modern War Institute article, Melissa Lee examines the ill-fated state building mission in Afghanistan.

The Department of Politics supports its Ph.D. students and recent alumni as they search for positions within and outside academia. On our job placement page you'll find more information about

“[T]he relative absence of the vice president’s voice on the administration’s ‘whole of government’ approach to protecting women’s abortion rights stands out.” In a piece published by The Hill, Lauren

Atul Kohli gave a German-language interview on the situation on Afghanistan in light of his recent book on imperialism in ProWOZ.

Andrew Reynolds and coauthor John Carey (Dartmouth) discuss how US decisions in Afghanistan negatively impacted its political fate in the Washington Post.

"The outcome of the referendum, in other words, rapidly transformed the Conservative Party’s position on the EU." Brian Schonfeld and Sam Winter-Levy have published a blog for The UK in

Microsoft has awarded $250,000 in funding to professor Jonathan Mummolo and a team of fellow social scientists to fund the development of a novel system to computationally analyze police body-worn

Just a few weeks shy of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the takeover is a significant blow to the American military members, and their families, who died fighting to prevent