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…
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
Marcin Piatkowski is an Associate Professor of Economics at Kozminski University in Warsaw and a Senior Economist at the World Bank. Previously, he was Chief Economist and Managing Director of PKO BP, the largest bank in Poland, economist in the European Department of the IMF and Advisor to IMF's Executive Director. He also…
Carles Boix, Robert Garrett Professor in Politics and Professor of Public Affairs, Princeton University
The Value of Democracy
Andreu Arenas (University of Barcelona & Princeton University), Alícia Adserà (Princeton University) and Carles Boix (Princeton University)
Please join Austin as he explains his planned path into policy-making through a life of service in elected office. Although this discussion will focus on the nuances of the US domestic political process, Austin hopes that this forum and subsequent discussion will encourage all those in SPIA, Princeton, and its extended…
