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Politics PhD alum and postdoc Nathan Gibson won the George Edwards III Best Dissertation Award for “Presidential Use of Centralization and Politicization." His dissertation committee included Brandice Canes-Wrone (chair), Charles

This cycle, an impressive five Politics concentrators were named Fulbright grantees. Three of the five–Scarlett McNulty, Rebecca Han, and Hanying Jiang–graduated last month. Recipients of Fulbright’s English Teaching Assistant award

Politics PhD alum Paul Baumgardner has won this year’s Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award from the Politics and History section of APSA for his dissertation, “Retrenchment Rivals: Critical Legal Studies

The George Kateb Preceptor Award is given annually to recognize the best graduate student preceptors in the Department of Politics. This year, students Ian Walling, Tiffany Simon, Sonya Chen, and

Melissa Lane, a political theorist specializing in ancient political thought, has been awarded the Department's annual teaching prize.

Bermeo is a professor of politics, emeritus, and a Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies senior scholar. She writes on the causes and consequences of political mobilization and regime

Elizabeth Nugent will join the Princeton University Department of Politics this fall as an assistant professor.

The Kuznets Mini-Conference on Political Distortions and Economic Development highlights current work on themes relevant to the Kuznets lecture, and Leonard Wantchekon delivered this year's lecture on “Political Distortions and

R. Douglas Arnold sat down with the Princeton Policy Podcast team to discuss his book “Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age."

Politics PhD student Mishella Romo Rivas has been selected as an American Political Science Association Diversity Fellow for the spring 2022 cycle.

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.