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December 08, 2017
Police Officers Highly Motivated by Supervisor Scrutiny
Police officers are highly responsive to the scrutiny of their superiors, a Princeton University study shows. The findings suggest that rules and supervision can be effective at reforming police behavior.Published Dec. 7 in the Journal of Politics, the study examines millions of police records from the New York Police…
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December 06, 2017
Politics & Polls #69: How the Media Covers Race
How the media covers race remains a palpable concern in today’s America. In this episode, award-winning journalist Tanzina Vega chats with Professors Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang about the many issues related to race and the media.Vega is speaker on issues of race, media and inequality in the United States as well as a Ferris…
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November 29, 2017
Politics & Polls #68: Captivity and Survival in Syria
Photographers are often on the front lines of war, risking their lives to document deadly conflict zones. One such photojournalist is Jonathan Alpeyrie, a French-American photographer who was captured and held hostage by Syrian rebels in 2013. In this episode, Alpeyrie describes his 81 days of being bound, blindfolded and…
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November 15, 2017
Politics & Polls #67: The Day the Donkey Roared
Democrats triumphed in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races Nov. 7, which some say is a strong rebuke to Republican President Donald Trump. Are the democratic victories a predictor of what’s to come in the midterm results next year?Joining this episode are Larry Sabato and Geoffrey Skelley of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a…
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November 08, 2017
Politics & Polls #66: A Year of Donald Trump
In this episode, Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang take a look back at the past year and analyze all that has unfolded since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.ABOUT THE HOSTSZelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson…
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November 02, 2017
Politics & Polls #65: Alaskan Politics with Rep. Bryce Edgmon
Given the news consistently coming out of Washington, it can be easy to forget what’s happening at the local level. In this episode, Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang turn their attention toward Alaska, a state whose budget has been especially affected by steep drops in oil prices. They discuss this and more with state Rep. Bryce…
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October 26, 2017
Politics & Polls #64: Congressional Races in 2018
There are 468 seats up for grabs in Congress for the 2018 election, with the Republican Party currently holding a majority in both the Senate and the House. But will this hold after election day? Joining today’s episode to discuss the congressional races is Levi Tillemann, the democratic candidate for Colorado’s 6th…
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October 18, 2017
Politics & Polls #63: How to be a Conservative in the Age of Trump
Leading conservative thinker David Frum was one of the earliest and most prominent conservative voices to come out in opposition to President Donald Trump. A CNN contributor and senior editor at The Atlantic, Frum said in a public radio interview that Trump “is shattering the safeguards that protect democracy.” In this episode,…
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October 12, 2017
Politics & Polls #62: Does Gerrymandering Leave Voters Without a Voice?
This episode is about one of Sam Wang’s favorite topics: gerrymandering.Wang visited the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 3 to hear arguments in Gill v. Whitford, a case challenging Wisconsin’s 2011 redistricting plan as being the product of partisan gerrymandering. With the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, Wang and collaborators…
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October 05, 2017
Politics & Polls #61: Identity Politics & the Democratic Party
Are identity politics hurting the Democratic Party? Some argue Democrats have strayed away from core economic issues, favoring religion, race, sexuality, gender or social background (to name a few) to form their political alliance – thereby undercutting the party’s effectiveness.Joining this episode is an author who has written…