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.https://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3m4fz4ztg3k2mPrinceton 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/4oEUh1f30 Oct 2025 12:56 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4fz4ztg3k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3m4743owy7s2k"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 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/26/trump-white-house-far-right-populism27 Oct 2025 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4743owy7s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3m3sc2tg6jc2aPolitics 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/47fs6yY22 Oct 2025 16:42 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3sc2tg6jc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3m3s66yapfs27Layna Mosley @laynamosley.bsky.social speaks with @NPR on tariffs impact on Diwali celebrations in the US. https://www.npr.org/2025/10/20/nx-s1-5577133/tariffs-on-indian-goods-make-diwali-celebrations-in-u-s-more-expensive-this-year22 Oct 2025 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3s66yapfs27https://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3m36dkmix2c26Professor Leonard Wantchekon Addresses the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee on Economic & Financial Affairs bit.ly/46TwTHm14 Oct 2025 18:16 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m36dkmix2c26https://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3m2rrfuz6f22m"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 https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-government-shutdown-how-democrats-can-confront-trump-by-jan-werner-mueller-2025-1009 Oct 2025 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2rrfuz6f22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3m2rj2o23322m"Our Constitution doesn’t need gilded letters, since those would only be distractions from the true content." Abigail Anthony '23 writes for National Review https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/i-saw-the-constitution/09 Oct 2025 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2rj2o23322mhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3m2pepoxahc2708 Oct 2025 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2pepoxahc27https://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3m2jzklebsk2gWe 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/48dnStR06 Oct 2025 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2jzklebsk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3m25klndbrc2sOctober 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 https://manyminds.alumni.princeton.edu01 Oct 2025 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m25klndbrc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lzo6lbskec2d"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 http://bit.ly/4gGYIWI25 Sep 2025 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzo6lbskec2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lzgphgltck23"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 http://bit.ly/4pHECjh22 Sep 2025 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzgphgltck23https://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lz7qbppoj22dDahyun 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.19 Sep 2025 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz7qbppoj22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lz7nrir7w22dProfessor Robert George to give The 2025 Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence of the Library of Congress. https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2025/09/the-2025-kellogg-biennial-lecture-in-jurisprudence-dr-robert-george/19 Sep 2025 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz7nrir7w22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lz7mgc5j3k2d"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 https://spia.princeton.edu/news/supreme-court-justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-advises-princeton-students-work-hard-their19 Sep 2025 19:37 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz7mgc5j3k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lz7m7kz2e22qAaron 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 https://bit.ly/3VYqe8s19 Sep 2025 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz7m7kz2e22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lz75i7ciic26In 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.19 Sep 2025 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz75i7ciic26https://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lz74zqebsc2tDuring 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. https://ldi.upenn.edu/events/health-and-politics-in-the-aftermath-of-covid-19/19 Sep 2025 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz74zqebsc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lz2jgafjfk2zJoin 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.17 Sep 2025 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz2jgafjfk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lz2hsw3xjs2z2024 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.17 Sep 2025 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz2hsw3xjs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lyy2igcji22xIn 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.16 Sep 2025 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyy2igcji22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lyvnksxnw22xIn 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.15 Sep 2025 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyvnksxnw22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lyvh2ewwfk2x"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 http://bit.ly/4nS3HGz15 Sep 2025 18:34 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyvh2ewwfk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lyv5rfcxhk2rIn 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.15 Sep 2025 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyv5rfcxhk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lynh5lf5o22yIn 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.12 Sep 2025 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lynh5lf5o22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/princetonpolitics.bsky.social/post/3lylhdcpur22yWhy 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.11 Sep 2025 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:tp52cm4u57pb76zhqyazvb2p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lylhdcpur22y