American Politics Graduate Research Seminar | Princeton Politics

Faculty Leader

LaFleur Stephens-Dougan

Meeting Day/Time

Mondays 11:50 AM - 1:10 PM

Location

127 Corwin

Papers are posted the Friday afternoon before each presentation. Members of the department may download them by clicking the presentation title in the table below.

2025-2026 Schedule of Presentations

Fall 2025

Date	Presenter	Title/Paper	Discussant(s)
9/08/2025		Introductory Meeting
9/15/2025		No Meeting
9/22/2025	Dahyun Choi	"Application of Scientific Research in Policymaking is Shaped by Partisan Bias, Yet High-Quality Studies Remain Resilient"	Job Talk
9/29/2025	Isaiah Johnson	"Jack of All Trades, Master of None: Multiracial Politicians and Political Representation."	Job Talk
10/06/2025	Darius Cozart	"Revisiting the War on Crime: Federal Dependence and Local Punitive Spending Under Fiscal Duress"	Corrine McConnaughy
10/13/2025		No Meeting (Fall Recess)
10/20/2025	Yun Choi	Domain Knowledge-Guided Semi-Supervised Cluster-Then-Label Approach for Political Object Detection in the Wild	Nolan McCarty
10/27/2025	Ke Liang	Enforcement as Message: A Dynamic Theory of Legitimacy and Compliance	Chuck Cameron
11/03/2025	Ayse Eldes	Congressional Oversight of Industry: Corporate Political Spending and Partisan Bias in Committee Hearings	John Kastellec
11/10/2025		No Meeting (Job Talk)
11/17/2025		No Meeting (Job Talk)
11/24/2025	Amy Jeon	Political Control over Agency Adjudication: Assessing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board	Nolan McCarty
12/01/2025	Joshua Limpert	The Irrational Voter: Information Aggregation in Elections with Misspecified Beliefs	Paul Frymer
12/08/2025	Lucas Ophoff	Go Do Your Own Research? Revisiting Selective Exposure Through AI Chatbots and Search Engines	Hye Young You

SPRING 2026

Date	Presenter	Title/Paper	Discussant(s)
1/26/2026	Haodi Dong	Partners or Antagonists? Judicial Review and Agency Policymaking Under Uncertainty	Brian Libgober
2/02/2026	Adrian Pietrzak	Zoning for Votes: How Local Politicians Use Land-Use Regulations for Political Gain	Jonathan Mummolo
2/09/2026	Gavin Medina	Race Beyond Borders: White Americans’ Racial Perceptions Abroad	Ismail White
2/16/2026	Ren Mueller	How do legislators respond to career concerns?	Frances Lee
2/23/2026	Nia Atkins Alisson Ramos Zhen Huang	Sundown Places: How Historical Institutions of Racial Exclusion Have Lasting Consequences for Contemporary Racial Dynamics Sounding the Trump(eta)! The Narrative Pushback in Spanish-Language Media Two-Step Flow in Topic-Centered Digital Publics: Evidence from Reddit	LaFleur Stephens-Dougan
3/02/2026	Ilana Keusch Luchuan Deng Cynthia Huo	After Strategic Retirement: Senior Judges and Post-Retirement Workload Political machines anew? Community-based organizations and local elections The Distributive Politics of Federal Procurement	Frances Lee
3/09/2026		No Meeting (Spring Break)
3/17/2026	Darius Cozart Lucas Ophoff Hye Young You	Revisiting the War on Crime: Federal Dependence and Local Punitive Spending Under Fiscal Duress Lobbying and Legislative Representation
3/23/2026	Jasanté Howard	Dissertation Chapter	Naomi Murakawa
3/30/2026	Jeron Fenton	591 Paper	Markus Prior
4/06/2026	Kodiak Sauer	Dissertation Chapter	Tali Mendelberg
4/13/2026	Kaiyla Dartey	Adaptive Ambition: How Black women candidates strategically navigate U.S. house elections	Hye Young You