Now that the 2022 Midterm elections are (mostly) behind us, let’s have a bipartisan conversation about civil discourse: Why are we so polarized as a nation? How did we get here? Why don’t people on either side of the aisle seem to know how to disagree without being “disagreeable”? And what does all of this mean for the future…
Tobias Schmidt is Associate (tenured) Professor and head of the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG) at ETH Zurich. He also serves as the director of Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP). He is currently a visiting fellow at Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment as well as the Center for…
Particulate matter dramatically lowers life expectancy in India, especially in north India where crop residue burning is a significant contributor to the air pollution burden. We use a randomized controlled trial in the state of Punjab to test the efficacy of conditional cash transfers (i.e., payments for ecosystem services, or…
Public opinion polling is the ultimate democratic process; it gives every person an equal voice in letting elected leaders know what they need and want. But in the eyes of the public, polls today are tarnished. Recent election forecasts have routinely missed the mark and media coverage of polls has focused solely on their…
Gregory Leslie, 2022-2023 Joint Fellow, CSDP and Politics, Princeton University
The Racial Frontier: Biracials, Machine Learning, and the Future of Racial Group Boundaries
The Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment at Princeton University/SPIA is sending a delegation of students, researchers, and faculty to attend COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from November 6-18. We will be hosting our second of two livestreams from Egypt on: