Politics-affiliated research programs
The Department of Politics (co)sponsors a number of formally organized research programs at Princeton.
• The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for International Peace and Justice organizes conferences and other activities focused on fostering peace and justice around the world.
• The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions supports scholarship on conservative political thought, constitutional law, law and religion, and public policy.
• The Princeton Laboratory for Experimental Social Science (PLESS) (co-sponsored with the Department of Economics, with additional support from the Provost and the Woodrow Wilson School) is a laboratory specially built to support experimental investigations of human reasoning, judgment, decision-making, and behavior.
• The Research Program in Political Economy (co-sponsored with the Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School) supports scholarship at the intersection of economics and political science; the program sponsors workshops, conferences, fellowships, and student grants.
Faculty and students in the Politics Department also benefit from other University centers and programs.
• The Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs brings together faculty from Politics, Economics, Sociology, Psychology, many area studies programs and departments, and Princeton's engineering programs, as well as its own specialty faculty in such fields as urban policy, law and policy, science policy, and demography.
• The University Center for Human Values is the campus focal point for scholarly inquiry into ethics and political philosophy, sponsoring fellowships for dissertation research in the study of human values, as well as a series of distinguished guest lectures and a number of visiting senior scholars each year.
• The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, formed in 2003 by the consolidation of various programs specializing in regional politics and economics, aims to integrate international and regional studies at the University into informed and coherent perspectives on global affairs.
• The Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (co-sponsored with the Woodrow Wilson School ) attracts specialists in American politics, comparative politics, constitutional law, and political theory, all of whom share an interest in the mechanisms by which political communities achieve or fail to achieve democratic goals and principles.
• The Program in Law and Public Affairs (sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values) combines a visiting legal scholar program and an extensive speaker series to bring cutting-edge legal scholarship into the Princeton community.
• The Center for Globalization and Governance (sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School) brings visiting scholars and speakers together with political scientists, economists, sociologists, and historians to investigate questions surrounding the processes of globalization and their impacts on international governance.
• The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia (sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School) fosters scholarship on the political, cultural, and religious issues confronting policy initiatives in the predominately Muslim world of Central and West Asia and North Africa .
• The Center for Health and Wellbeing (sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School) focuses on domestic and international health policy concerns that are of great interest to political demographers, health economists, comparativists, and political theorists with an interest in human rights and the normative issues underlying health policy processes.
• The Research Program in Development Studies (sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School) brings together scholars who share a common interest in the economics and politics of the development process.
• The Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School) joins scientists from almost every field with political scientists, ethicists, sociologists, economists, and historians, to investigate the many forms and consequences of interaction between science and policy making.
• The Project on Democracy and Development promotes research and teaching on the relations between political institutions, representation, economic reforms, and inequality. Sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), the Project hosts an inter-disciplinary seminar series, conferences, and a visiting fellows program.