Thomas Edsall's New York Times column, "America Has Split, and It’s Now in ‘Very Dangerous Territory’," features Nolan McCarty's perspectives on our further polarized nation. Commenting on why the national COVID public health crisis is also a polarizing…

Charles Cameron and Jonathan Kastellec, writing in The Washington Post's Monkey Cage (Conservatives may control the Supreme Court until the 2050s), bring their research to bear on the future of the Supreme Court. Their simulation suggests…

Writing in The Washington Post, Keith Whittington addresses a proposed Pennsylvania law that would ban the discussion of any "racist or sexist concept" in public elementary schools, high schools, and colleges. He argues that,…

Thomas Edsall's weekly column in The New York Times asks Trump Won’t Let America Go. Can Democrats Pry It Away? Frances Lee finds that the unprecedented threat posed by Trump in 2020 "was thwarted, to a great extent by that president’s…

Frances Lee, with her co-author James Curry, penned an op-ed in The New York Times on the Democrats' difficulties moving their legislative agenda forward, There's a Curse in Washington, and the Party in Control Can't Seem to Shake It. Bringing their…

CSDP is pleased to introduce our second cohort (first in person on campus) of Undergraduate Research Fellows. These selected Princeton seniors will join CSDP at weekly research seminars in the 2021-2022 academic year and will be paired with a CSDP faculty mentor who shares their research…

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 Princeton School…

Lauren Wright brought her political science expertise to KPIX5's conversation about the role of women voters in the recall election of California Governor Gavin Newsom, and

LaFleur Stephens-Dougan was the featured guest on New Books Network's podcast. The discussion with Ursula Hackett centered around Stephens-Dougan's book, Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics (U Chicago Press, 2020). The

Brandice Canes-Wrone, along with co-author Kenneth Miller (UNLV), was featured in the Washington Post Magazine article "America's Hidden Crisis of Power and Place." The article discusses how the political elite in both…