The award committee for the Christopher Z. Mooney Best Dissertation Prize has selected Michael's dissertation, “Fundraising for the Caucus: Money, Party Politics, and Policymaking in American Legislatures” as the best

Politics concentrator Fernanda Romo Herrera Ibarrola is one of five seniors awarded the Labouisse Prize for international civic engagement projects in 2022. She will work in the Corner Institute, a

Stephens joined Will Bunch and Christopher Nicholas to discuss President Biden's State of Union address on NPR.

Guess and a team of researchers found that the power of fact-checking seems to fade over time.

“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