Kateb award winners
May 9, 2024
The George Kateb Preceptor Award is given annually to recognize the best graduate student preceptors in the Department of Politics. This year, students Ze Han, Rikio Inouye, Heather Penatzer, and
Professor Markus Prior
May 7, 2024
Fellows will receive stipends for research that seeks to understand how and why our society has become so polarized and how we can strengthen the forces of cohesion to fortify
Mueller
May 6, 2024
"Instead of defending the right to protest, many centrists are delegitimizing students, despite the value of what they’re doing"
Mueller
May 3, 2024
Mueller argues that analysts and policymakers need a new framework to understand how a new generation of authoritarian leaders control public opinion.
Photo portrait of Amanda Kastern
May 2, 2024
Kastern, who has served as senior manager of finance and administration in the Department of Politics since 2012, is leaving Politics for a new role in the Office of the
Melissa Lane
May 2, 2024
Lane's book is discussed in major political podcasts such as "Timeless Leadership," "Keeping Democracy Alive," and "Facepalm America."
Picture of Humboldt University
May 2, 2024
The cooperation with the renowned law school and the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt has allowed annual cohorts of students from different disciplines to come together for ten years.
Mueller
April 16, 2024
“The new class of Fellows has followed their calling to enhance all of our lives, to provide greater human knowledge and deeper understanding,” Guggenheim Foundation President Edward Hirsch said in
Jasante Howard
April 16, 2024
Politics Ph.D. student, Jasante Howard, was selected to receive the Graduate School Teaching Award for his work as an assistant-in-instruction.
Mueller
April 8, 2024
Mueller identifies the specific democratic functions of mass assembly and how the characteristics of squares might represent different forms of democratic assembly.
Woman with short hair and glasses
March 25, 2024
Melissa Lane and co-author, Jane Manners, analyze what is means for a president to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed" in regards to Trump's recent Supreme Court case
Mueller
March 19, 2024
Mueller argues that "in America's two-party system, one of the parties is turning against democracy itself."
fred greenstein headshot
March 18, 2024
Fred Greenstein, who joined Princeton’s faculty as Professor of Politics in 1973, transferred to emeritus status in 2000, and died in 2018, had his final book published by Texas A&M
Mueller
March 12, 2024
Mueller discusses how " Trump's love for Viktor Orbán hints at what another Trump term will look like"
Woman with short hair and glasses
February 29, 2024
Melissa Lane, was interviewed by Burt Cohen on his podcast, Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen, where she discussed her book, Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political.
Judgment at Tokyo book cover
February 22, 2024
Bass’s book, Judgment at Tokyo, was named as one of the year’s 10 best books by The Washington Post, 12 essential nonfiction books by The New Yorker, 100 notable books
Mueller
February 8, 2024
"Even where the right to freedom of assembly has been officially recognised, it has been shadowed by anti-democratic prejudices about mass politics."
Mueller
February 2, 2024
Mueller analyzes the pros and cons of banning political parties that threaten democracies.
Leonard Wantchekon
January 29, 2024
Sir W. Arthur Lewis Memorial Lecture recognizes an economist who has produced seminal research on economic development or made a significant contribution to economic development through public service.