Princeton University Department of Politics
@princetonpolitics.bsky.social
As one of Princeton University's largest departments, Politics brings together the diverse perspectives of nearly 60 faculty, 150 undergraduate concentrators and 140 graduate students.
Princeton dedicated Prospect House spaces in honor of faculty, alumni and others who “helped to shape the University and the world” including Politics alum Charles Hey-Maestre ’77 who spent his legal career fighting for the rights of underserved and marginalized people in Puerto Rico. bit.ly/4oEUh1f
"Trump’s disfiguring the White House fits into a larger global trend: far-right populist leaders in many countries have used spectacular architecture to advance their political agenda" Jan-Werner Müller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social writes for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s White House overhaul fits a global trend among far-right populists | Jan-Werner Müller
The president’s move is less an example of American exceptionalism than part of a familiar pattern
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Politics Professor and Dean of Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs Amaney Jamal presented "Dialogue in Action: Leading for the Public Good" as part of Princeton Graduate School's Many Minds, Many Stripes conference. #ManyMinds bit.ly/47fs6yY
Layna Mosley @laynamosley.bsky.social speaks with @NPR on tariffs impact on Diwali celebrations in the US. www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n...
Tariffs on Indian goods make Diwali celebrations in U.S. more expensive this year
Diwali, the festival of lights, will be celebrated around the world Monday, but steep tariffs on Indian goods made preparing for the holiday more costly for people living in the U.S.
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Professor Leonard Wantchekon Addresses the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee on Economic & Financial Affairs bit.ly/46TwTHm
"This is not about this or that policy; it is about a chief executive governing according to his whims, with impunity and obvious disregard for the US Constitution." @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social writes for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social bit.ly/43bKHum
How the Democrats Can “Win” the US Government Shutdown
Jan-Werner Mueller urges the party to adhere to some key lessons about confronting would-be autocrats.
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"Our Constitution doesn’t need gilded letters, since those would only be distractions from the true content." Abigail Anthony '23 writes for National Review www.nationalreview.com/corner/i-saw...
I Saw the Constitution | National Review
Its physical appearance was underwhelming. But we cherish the Constitution because of the ideas it contains, not for its physical form.
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We speak with Politics Professor Jan-Werner Müller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social about what political science can contribute to a better understanding of architecture. #WorldArchitectureDay bit.ly/48dnStR
🚨🚨 I’m thrilled to share that my book, Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed, will be published this month with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org in their Comparative Politics Series
October 9-11, Princeton will host “Many Minds, Many Stripes: A Princeton University Conference Celebrating Graduate Alumni,” coinciding with the Princeton Graduate School’s 125th anniversary. All alumni are invited to attend. Register now: manyminds.alumni.princeton.edu
Many Minds, Many Stripes
A Princeton University conference celebrating graduate alumni, coinciding with the 125th anniversary of the Graduate School. October 9-11, 2025
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"This hub is an instrument for empowering communities to build their own evidence-based solutions, moving beyond aid to self-reliant development." Prof. Leonard Wantchekon explained of The Princeton-African School of Economics Research at the 2025 Devolution Conference. bit.ly/4gGYIWI
Princeton-backed innovation hub launches in Kenya to plug skills gap
PASER aims to create a new model for development where municipalities and devolved governments use data-driven research to train a new generation of professionals and attract investment.
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"They put into place in our Constitution a system of structural constraints on power knowing that no one, given the nature of human beings, could be trusted with unchecked and unaccountable power." Robert George on the Pursuit podcast @constitutionctr.bsky.social bit.ly/4pHECjh
Introducing Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness
Podcast for Introducing Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness from the National Constitution Center
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Dahyun Choi @dahyunchoi.bsky.social studies how private and public organizations strategically use expertise in the U.S. administrative state. Her job market paper shows that while high-quality studies remain resilient to political turnover, partisan bias still shapes which evidence agencies use.
Professor Robert George to give The 2025 Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence of the Library of Congress. blogs.loc.gov/law/2025/09/...
The 2025 Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence: Dr. Robert George | In Custodia Legis
Please join the Law Library of Congress, in-person and virtually, for the 2025 Kellogg Lecture in Jurisprudence on October 9, 2025, presented by Dr. Robert George.
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"I would probably focus quite a bit on academic freedom, on knowledge. That is really the root of all things in terms of liberty — which is really the core of what we're trying to do with the democratic process, to preserve liberty.” - Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Advises Princeton Students to Work Hard for Their Passions | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
“When you’re trying to figure out what you want to do with your life, the key question is, ‘What am I willing to work for?’” Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson advised students on her first-e...
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Aaron Friedberg @alf2014.bsky.social discusses the current geopolitical situation and the threat posed by China on the podcast Conversations with Bill Kristol. @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social bit.ly/3VYqe8s
Aaron Friedberg: The Trump Administration's Surprising China Policy - Conversations with Bill Kristol
On the second Trump administration’s surprising China policy
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In her dissertation, Manasi @manasibose.bsky.social examines international responses to rebel governance and uses the case study of HTS in Syria to address the question of why groups with no expectation of legitimacy or legal recognition engage in costly political institutionalization.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, officials relied on rapidly evolving science and data to make high-stakes decisions. Join @upenn.edu and our Prof. Lee for a seminar discussing the health, social, & economic impacts of those choices. ldi.upenn.edu/events/healt...
Health and Politics in the Aftermath of COVID-19
This seminar will take stock of how data, evidence, communications, and politics shaped pandemic-era health policy and the politics of today.
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Join us today, from 5-6:30PM in McCosh Hall 50 for the annual Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture, co-sponsored by the James Madison Program, titled, "Our Civil Rights Revolution." The lecture will feature Jeannie Suk Gersen of @harvard.edu and an introduction by Prof. Robert George.
2024 APSA Kenneth Sherrill Prize recipient @nancyyuntang.bsky.social studies how authoritarian regimes and LGBTQ movements interact through the "law", whose job market paper explores how Chinese feminist and queer movements advance non-heteronormative reproduction under state pro-natalism.
In his dissertation book project, Hani F. Abdel-Warith demonstrates that autocrats in the Middle East and North Africa punish their opponents by withholding schools from restive regions.
Jeff Staton presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Charles Cameron 🏆👏 Congratulations to Dr. Cameron on this well-deserved honor and thank you for your extraordinary contributions to our field!
Free tickets: From Tyranny to Athenian Democracy 👉gres.hm/tyranny-demo... Prof Melissa Lane* traces Athenian democracy to 508 BCE, when a popular uprising toppled a tyrant & Cleisthenes’ reforms reshaped politics, identity & society *also of @princeton.bsky.social / @princetonpolitics.bsky.social
In his job market paper, @hirotosawada.bsky.social presents a formal model to explain (i) when a climate disaster triggers armed conflict and (ii) why empirical evidence on climate and conflict seems mixed. His research can be found at hiroto-sawada.github.io.
"The horrendous killing of the far-right activist Charlie Kirk has been met with calming, statesman-like responses on both sides of the political aisle. But it has also demonstrated yet again the fundamental asymmetry of contemporary American politics." Prof. Jan-Werner Müller writes bit.ly/4nS3HGz
Violence As Policy in Trump’s America
Jan-Werner Mueller argues that the murder of Charlie Kirk has highlighted the fundamental asymmetry of contemporary US politics.
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In his book project, Huseyin Emre Ceyhun examines how elite access to new communication technologies re-shapes internal power dynamics within ruling parties in competitive authoritarian regimes — creating new forms of intra-party challenge to autocratic leadership.
In his job market paper, Christian examines how permanent oil revenue shortfalls reshape distributional conflicts in oil-dependent states and drive targeted institutional reforms to strengthen public goods provision, offering insight into how these states will respond to the clean energy transition.
Why does climate finance routinely stall between promise and delivery? Fiona Bare's job market paper shows how dual features of climate finance - mixed public-private benefits and pervasive uncertainty - create strategic frictions between donors and recipients that delay dealmaking.
