Robertson Hall Landscape

Faculty Books & Awards

Our faculty regularly publish books on both national and global policy issues.

2024

Ben Bradlow's Urban Power book cover

Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg

Benjamin H. Bradlow
Princeton University Press
October 2024

AI Snake Oil book cover

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
Princeton University Press
September 2024

Our Nation at Risk book cover

Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue

Edited by Julian E. Zelizer and Karen J. Greenberg
NYU Press
July 2024

Privatizing Justice book cover

Privatizing Justice: Arbitration and the Decline of Public Governance in the U.S.

Sarah Staszak
Oxford University Press
April 2024

 Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him book cover

Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him

Laurence Ralph
Hachette Book Group
February 2024

2023

Local Content Requirements: Promises and Pitfalls book cover

Local Content Requirements: Promises and Pitfalls

Edited by Lili Yan Ing, Gene Grossman
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
November 2023

Judgment at Tokyo book cover

Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

Gary Bass
Penguin Random House
October 2023

Economics in America book cover

Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality

Angus Deaton
Princeton University Press
October 2023

The Injustice of Place book cover

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
HarperCollins Publishers
August 2023

Making the Supreme Court book cover

Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020

Charles M. Cameron and Jonathan P. Kastellec
Oxford University Press
August 2023

Seven Crashes book cover

Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

Harold James
Yale University Press
May 2023

How Worlds Collapse book cover

How Worlds Collapse: What History, Systems, and Complexity Can Teach Us About Our Modern World and Fragile Future

Edited by Miguel Centeno, Peter Callahan, Paul Larcey, Thayer Patterson
Routledge
March 2023

Debating Worlds book cover

Debating Worlds: Contested Narratives of Global Modernity and World Order

Edited by Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry, and Karoline Postel-Vinay
Oxford University Press
March 2023

Accountability Reconsidered book cover

Accountability Reconsidered: Voters, Interests, and Information in US Policymaking

Edited by Charles M. Cameron, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Sanford C. Gordon, Gregory A. Huber
Cambridge University Press
February 2023

India Is Broken book cover

India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today

Ashoka Mody
Stanford University Press
February 2023

A Criminologist's Guide to R: Crime by the Numbers book cover

A Criminologist's Guide to R: Crime by the Numbers

Jacob Kaplan
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
January 2023

Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

Edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer
Basic Books
January 2023

2022

A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States book cover

A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021

Alan S. Blinder
Princeton University Press
October 2022

Young, Gifted, and Diverse: Origins of the New Black Elite

Young, Gifted, and Diverse: Origins of the New Black Elite

Douglas S. Massey, Camille Z. Charles, Kimberly C. Torres, and Rory Kramer
Princeton University Press
August 2022

Robots and AI: A New Economic Era book cover

Robots and AI: A New Economic Era

Gene M. Grossman and Lili Yan Ing
Taylor & Francis Group
June 2022

The Case for Case Studies: Methods and Applications in International Development book cover

The Case for Case Studies: Methods and Applications in International Development

Jennifer Widner, Michael Woolcock, and Daniel Ortega Nieto
Cambridge University Press
May 2022

Fixing Social Security book cover

Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age

R. Douglas Arnold
Princeton University Press
April 2022

The Presidency of Donald J. Trump book cover

The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment

Julian Zelizer
Princeton University Press
April 2022

Defining the Age book cover

Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

Julian Zelizer and Paul Starr
Columbia University Press
February 2022

2021

Pushing Cool book cover

Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette

Keith Wailoo
University of Chicago Press
November 2021

Toxique book cover

Toxique: The Aftermath of French Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific

Sebastien Philippe
Presses Universitaires de France
October 2021

Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement book cover

Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement

Julian Zelizer
Yale University Press
October 2021

9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law book cover

9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law

Kim Lane Scheppele
Cambridge University Press
July 2021

Burning Down the House book cover

Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich and the Rise of the New Republican Party

Julian E. Zelizer
Penguin Random House
July 2021

Indebted Societies book cover

Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies

Andreas Wiedemann
Cambridge University Press
June 2021

Immigration, Nativism & Race in the United States book cover

Immigration, Nativism & Race in the United States

Douglas S. Massey
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
April 2021

The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies book cover

The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies

Deborah J. Yashar, Diana Kapiszewski, and Steven Levitsky
Cambridge University Press
January 2021

2020

Social Cognition book cover

Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture (Fourth Edition)

Susan T. Fiske and Shelley E. Taylor
Sage Publishing
November 2020

 

The Limits of Party book cover

The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

Frances E. Lee and James M. Curry
The University of Chicago Press
October 2020

 

A World Safe for Democracy book cover

A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order

G. John Ikenberry
Yale University Press
September 2020

Faculty Book Awards

Fixing Social Security book cover

Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age

R. Douglas Arnold


2023 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association

Pushing Cool book cover

Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette

Keith Wailoo


2023 Hughes Prize winner, British Society for the History of Science; 2022 Book Prize finalist, Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Toxique book cover

Toxique: The Aftermath of French Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific

Sebastien Philippe


Finalist, 2021 Albert Londres Prize

Limits of Party book cover

The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

Frances E. Lee and James M. Curry


Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association

A World Safe for Democracy book cover

A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order

G. John Ikenberry


"Best of the Year", Foreign Affairs and finalist, 2021 Arthur Ross Book Award

The War of Words book cover

The War of Words: A Glossary of Globalization

Harold James


Financial Times’ Best Books of 2021

Steadfast Democrats book cover

Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior

Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird


Best Book Award on government, politics, or international affairs, American Political Science Association

Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies book cover

Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies

Andreas Wiedemann


William Riker Award and Best Book on Class and Inequality, American Political Science Association