Past Workshops and Conferences

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CSDP Workshop: The Presidency and the Administrative State
Fri, May 18, 2018, 10:00 am5:30 pm

By invitation only

CSDP Workshop on the Presidency and the Administrative State

This workshop will bring together a small group of scholars studying key strategies for presidential control, including personnel decisions and agency directives.

Friday, May…

By invitation only
U.S. Presidency in Crisis?
Fri, May 4, 2018, 8:30 am6:00 pm

Is the US presidency in crisis as an institution?  To what extent are the factors that contributed to Trump’s election and define his presidency personal versus broader developments? What are the implications of the Trump presidency for US policy and political discourse? This conference will bring together leading academics, policymakers, and…

  • Registration is required.
  • Open to all members of the Princeton University community. Not open to the public.
PRESS Experimental Research Workshop
Tue, Dec 12, 2017, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

Princeton Research in Experimental Social Sciences

Research Workshop

rsvp: https://scholar.princeton.edu/ppress/research-workshops 

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP), the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and…

Open to Princeton students, faculty, and fellows working on experimental research design in the social sciences
PRESS experimental research workshop
Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

Online social interactions and Asian Americans' partisan political attitudes
Tanika Raychaudhuri, PhD Candidate in Politics

Study of Political Engagement in China: An Online Experiment on Chinese Social Media Platform Weibo.com
Naijia Liu and Haosen Ge (Politics)

2017 Princeton Conference on Identity and Inequality
Fri, Oct 13, 2017, 8:00 am6:00 pm
The conference brings together political scientists who study processes of inequality and identity involving class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or religion in American or comparative contexts. Advance registration required. Not open to the public. Contact [email protected] for more information.
This event is in…
Faculty, fellows, and graduate students in political science
How Do Politicians Learn? A Research Workshop
Wed, May 17, 2017, 8:30 am6:00 pm
This research workshop questions the extent to which politicians are informed, how they obtain information, and – importantly – how they process it. In particular, it will explore three important and interrelated questions: - How well informed about voters’ policy preferences are politicians in reality? - What are the sources of their…
By invitation only
PRESS Research Workshop
Wed, May 3, 2017, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
The Albatross of Education: Personal Student Debt and Preferences for Redistribution Cameron Ballard-Rosa Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Visiting Scholar, Princeton/Niehaus Authoritarianism, Anxiety, and Attitudes Toward Syrian Refugees Carolyn Barnett PhD Candidate, Dept of…
Real-World Impacts of Political and Legal Texts
Fri, Apr 28, 2017, 9:00 am6:00 pm
Audience: By Invitation Only This workshop will assemble a set of papers on text analysis and political economy, with the goal of seeing whether legal and political institutions, as embodied in text, have measureable socio-economic outcomes. Organizers: Elliott Ash, Devin Caughey, Marc Ratkovic

By invitation only
Rethinking Ways to Increase Voter Turnout
Fri, Apr 21, 2017

Friday, April 21, 2017
300 Wallace Hall
Princeton University

This workshop brings together leading thinkers on political participation to rethink the design of interventions and programs to increase low voter turnout in the United States.

8:30-9:00am Breakfast available 9:00-9:15am Welcome and opening…
PRESS Research Workshop: Celeste Marin and Rebecca Johnson
Tue, Apr 4, 2017, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
Who Counts What as Sexual Coercion? Demographic Variation in Perceptions of Sexual Victimization Celeste Marin (Office of Population Research) and Rebecca Johnson (Sociology and Office of Population Research) Open to Princeton students, faculty, and fellows working on experimental research design in the social sciences
PRESS workshops…
Open to Princeton students, faculty, and fellows working on experimental research design in the social sciences
PRESS Research Workshop Female Employment and Bargaining Dynamics: A Lab Experiment in Jordan
Tue, Mar 7, 2017, 6:00 pmFri, Feb 24, 2017, 7:30 pm
Authors: Carolyn Barnett (PhD Candidate, Politics), Amaney Jamal (Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics), and Stephen Monroe (PhD Candidate) Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP), Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance
Abstract: Does employment…
PRESS Experiments Workshop: Do memorials promote reconciliation?
Tue, Feb 7, 2017, 6:00 pm7:00 pm
Presenter: Elsa Voytas, PhD Candidate, Politics Authors: Laia Balcells (Duke), Valeria Palanza (Universidad Católica de Chile), Elsa Voytas (Princeton)
PRESS workshops are co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP), Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance…
PRESS Research Workshop
Tue, Dec 6, 2016, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
This workshop will feature presentations from Sharan Grewal (PhD candidate in Politics) and Nikhar Gaikwad (Niehaus Fellow). Their presentations are titled "Religion and Compromise: Experimental Investigations" and "Gendered Differences in the Causes and Consequences of Migration: Evidence from India" respectively. Dinner and refreshments will be…
PRESS Research Workshop: Adam Thal; Janet Xu
Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
The second PRESS Research Workshop will feature presentations from Adam Thal (PhD candidate in Politics) and Janet Xu (PhD student in Sociology/Office of Population Research). Their presentations are titled "Why do the affluent use their political power to oppose redistribution?" and "Defining “Diversity” in America: Perceptions of Racial and…
SSRC Anxieties of Democracy Institutions Working Group
Fri, Oct 28, 2016Sat, Oct 29, 2016

October 28-29, 2016

Princeton University's Department of Politics and Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP) are co-sponsoring this meeting of the Social Science Research Council's Anxieties of Democracy Working Group on Institutions.  The goal of this conference is to bring social science to bear on contemporary anxieties…

PRESS Research Workshop: Alexander Kustov (PhD cand); Daniela Barba-Sanchez (PhD cand)
Tue, Oct 18, 2016, 6:00 pm7:30 pm
PRESS (Princeton Research in Experimental Social Science) This workshop on October 18 will feature presentations from Politics Department Phd Candidates. The projects include "Why do—and don’t—compassionate people support more immigration? The social dilemma of helping others & favoring compatriots." by Alexander Kustov (PhD candidate in…
2016 Princeton Conference on Identity and Inequality
Fri, Oct 7, 2016

The conference brings together political scientists who study processes of inequality and identity involving class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or religion in American or comparative contexts. 

The conference will include a mentorship lunch, where faculty and graduate students will meet in small groups over lunch to discuss…

How Do Politicians Learn?
Tue, Oct 4, 2016

This research workshop questions the extent to which politicians are informed, how they obtain information, and – importantly – how they process it. In particular, it will explore three important and interrelated questions:

How well informed about voters’ policy preferences are politicians in reality? What are the sources of their…
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
Fri, May 13, 2016

Friday, May 13, 2016
300 Wallace Hall
Princeton University

Manuscript workshop for Matthew Salganik's book, Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age

​Professor Salganik's book is for social scientists who want to do more data science, and for data scientists who want to do more social science. The goal of…

Conference on Experimental Approaches to the Study of Democratic Politics
Fri, May 6, 2016, 8:30 am5:30 pm


By invitation only