This month, Rob Oldham (CSDP Graduate Student), published his article in the February 2024 edition of Legislative Studies Quarterly. The article is titled "Partisan Governance and Minority Party Vetoes: Evidence from State Legislatures."
AbstractIt is often argued that bipartisan lawmaking depends on minority legislative…
R. Douglas Arnold has been awarded the William G. Bowen Award by the Industrial Relations Section for his book, Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age (Princeton University Press 2022).
The Bowen Award is presented to…
Political scientists Frances Lee of Princeton University, Steven Levitsky of Harvard University and coauthor of Tyranny of the Minority, and Kurt Weyland of the University of Texas at Austin and author of Democracy's Resilience to Populism's…
In the past, excessive economic inequality has ended… badly. As Charlotte Cavaillé points out in her new book that studies the public’s reaction to rising inequality, “only mass warfare, a state collapse, or catastrophic plagues have significantly altered the distribution of…
October 27, 2023 – This week, scholars from around the U.S. met with more than 40 members of Congress to present proposals from a SPIA/CSDP initiative to reclaim congressional powers ceded to the executive branch.
Led by Mickey Edwards, a visiting professor at SPIA, the proposals were developed by more than three dozen task…
Princeton University's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP) hosts post-doctoral or more senior research associates each academic year, whose work focuses on empirical research on democratic political processes and institutions. CSDP fellows pursue research and contribute to the intellectual life of the Center, the…
CSDP affiliate, Andy Guess, has published a new article on the effects of social media in the 2020 election. Follow this link to read the complete article, titled “How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?”, Science 2023.
CSDP Co-Director, Tali Mendelberg published a new article, titled "The Long-Term Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Voting Behavior: The 'Moving to Opportunity' Experiment," in American Political Science Review. The article is coauthored with…
Former CSDP-affiliated Graduate Student, Stephanie Chan, wins the American Political Science Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section Award. Stephanie's dissertation committee was comprised of Tali Mendelberg (chair), LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, Dara Strolovitch, and Ismail White. Congratulations, Stephanie!
R. Douglas Arnold has been awarded the 2023 Gladys M. Kammerer Award by the American Political Science Association for his book, Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age (Princeton University Press 2022).
The Kammerer Award honors the best book in the field of United States national policy…