Making the Supreme Court
By Siya Arora President Richard Nixon had a golden opportunity in 1971 to fill a double vacancy on the Supreme Court when two justices resigned within the span of six days. “Is there a woman Continue Reading →
Category: Politics
Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know
McCarty argues that the outcome of the 2016 election was not as surprising as first thought. Continue Reading →
Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict
Authors: Eli Berman, chair of economics at the University of California-San Diego; Joseph Felter, deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia; Jacob Shapiro, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Continue Reading →
Eight win Guggenheim Fellowships
PHOTO CREDITS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: TOP ROW: JOHN LUCAS, RICHARD SODEN, PETER HURLEY, HANNAH DUNPHY BOTTOM ROW: DAVID BROWN, NINA KATCHADOURIAN, DENISE APPLEWHITE, JILL DOLAN Eight Princeton faculty members have received 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships Continue Reading →
Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights
Author: Alan Patten Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2015 Conflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world. On one side, majorities seek to fashion the state in their own Continue Reading →
Study casts doubt on fairness of U.S. democracy
AFFLUENT INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESS CORPORATIONS have vastly more influence on federal government policy than average citizens, according to research by Princeton University and Northwestern University. The researchers used a data set comprised of 1,779 policy Continue Reading →
Activism Shapes Africa Scholar
Leonard Wantchekon’s education began as a young child in his home village of Zagnanado, in the West African nation of Benin, where elementary school classes gave way to long soccer games and evenings of storytelling Continue Reading →
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