Seminar Series – Spring 2026The Education Research Section (ERS), an interdisciplinary unit in The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, promotes the use of high-quality research in education decision-making. We conduct, support, and promote education research, and disseminate results to educators, policymakers,…
Understanding power remains central to the study of political science, yet many fundamental questions about power in local governance remain unresolved. Who governs municipalities, both small and large? How do local powerholders make decisions about policies that influence everyday life, such as housing, infrastructure,…
Seminar Series – Spring 2026The Education Research Section (ERS), an interdisciplinary unit in The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, promotes the use of high-quality research in education decision-making. We conduct, support, and promote education research, and disseminate results to educators, policymakers,…
Democratic responses to climate change will be determined by how institutions such as deliberative bodies make sense of decarbonization. In a novel ethnography of the deliberations to achieve New York’s climate target, one of the world’s most ambitious, I show how norms of talk shape how people temporally coordinate action to…
Please join us for a presentation by one of the nation’s foremost experts on American public opinion. Gary Langer will visit Princeton to discuss our current national political situation with an assessment of how we got here – the underlying forces shaping political attitudes and the roots of division on Trump administration…
Seminar Series – Spring 2026The Education Research Section (ERS), an interdisciplinary unit in The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, promotes the use of high-quality research in education decision-making. We conduct, support, and promote education research, and disseminate results to educators, policymakers,…
The United Nations remains one of the world’s most influential multilateral institutions, operating across a wide range of thematic areas peace and security, development, human rights, climate change, education, health and humanitarian assistance. For many students and young graduates, building a career at the United Nations or…
