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Princeton University Department of Politics
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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
October 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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
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October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Professor Leonard Wantchekon Addresses the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee on Economic & Financial Affairs
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October 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
October 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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
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October 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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.
September 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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.
September 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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.
September 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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.
September 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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.
September 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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.
September 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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.
September 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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.
September 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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.
September 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
@rinouye.bsky.social examines how racial and religious identities of countries in conflict shape public support for them. He argues identity isn’t just another factor, but a lens shaping how people interpret strategic and material information, with real consequences for conflict support.
September 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
In her job-market paper, “Beliefs, Values, and the Geography of Redistribution,” Yuhan examines how local- and national-level beliefs about inequality and inequality aversion interact to shape citizens’ preferences for redistribution in high-inequality democracies such as Brazil.
September 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
In her book project, Heather examines internationalized territories as a distinct form of alien rule. Dr. Penatzer was awarded the “Best Student Paper in International Law” at ISA 2024 and Princeton’s George Kateb teaching prize in 2024. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with PIIRS Princeton.
September 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber has issued a statement following the release of graduate student Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023: bit.ly/4gkIB0P
September 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
In his job market paper, @icjohnson.bsky.social‬ examines how voters’ perceptions of racial competency shape the behavior of Multiracial politicians. Using a formal model, he demonstrates how uncertainty limits the ability of Multiracial incumbents to signal credibility to diverse constituencies.
September 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Introducing our 2025 job market candidates! We’ll share more about each student and their work in the days ahead, but in the meantime, you can meet all of our candidates here: politics.princeton.edu/graduate/job...
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September 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Welcome (back) to the Politics Department!
Here’s to a semester of inquiry, meaningful engagement, and discovery.
Let’s get started. 🗳️📚
September 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Professor Arthur Spirling to be the new director of Princeton's Center for Statistics and Machine Learning.
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August 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
From Princeton to Seoul to Copenhagen, Princeton SPIA highlights the work of Professor Hye Young You in their SPIAccolades series.

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August 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Welcome class of 2029! Come visit us today, Monday August 25th at the Academic Expo to have all your questions answered about majoring in Politics. Frick Laboratory Atrium from 1-4pm.
August 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
well-qualified individuals for a tenured or tenure track faculty position in public law.
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August 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM