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January 13, 2025

EXCERPT: Julian Zelizer Offers a Defense of Partisanship

Nearly 30 percent of Americans hold unfavorable views of both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, according to the Pew Research Center, which notes that figure is “the highest share in three decades of polling.” A quarter of adults, Pew adds, “do not feel well-represented by either party.”“Partisanship is a dirty…

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December 09, 2024

Princeton SPIA Case Study Offers Some Hope for Future Bipartisanship

Political polarization in contemporary U.S. politics appears to be an intractable, permanent problem, threatening a near-constant state of legislative gridlock and vitriolic dialogue.However, a new case study by researchers in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Innovations for Successful Societies program…

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November 07, 2024

New SPIA in NJ Series Launches to Explore the Past, Present, and Future of New Jersey’s Economic Policy

The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ SPIA in NJ initiative was launched last year on the idea that scholarship doesn’t happen in a vacuum. More specifically, the initiative assumes that the School’s students and faculty and New Jersey’s public policymakers have much to teach each…

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News, Research Briefs

August 06, 2024

Research Record: Race, Democracy, and Empire: Delegates to Congress from D.C. and the Territories

Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”

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Ukrainian Reconstruction: SPIA's Innovations for Successful Societies Introduces Unique Legal Database for Rebuilding Efforts

The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs’ Innovations for Successful Societies has released summaries and analyses of hundreds of Ukrainian laws pertaining to reconstruction, the second component of a larger project aimed at helping the country rebuild infrastructure the Russian invasion has destroyed or damaged…

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Social Media, Polarization, and the 2020 Presidential Election

The 2016 U.S. presidential election raised significant concerns among academics, political observers, policymakers, and much of the general public about the role social media played in the spread of misinformation during the campaign and the concurrent rise in polarization. So when SPIA’s Andrew Guess was given the chance to…

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Seeking a Set of Principles to Rebuild the World Order

In 1787, with the nascent United States of America in danger of going broke and falling apart, a group of delegates met in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, the young country’s governing document. The Constitutional Convention instead resulted in an entirely new system of governance, one that markedly…

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Appetite for Transparency Affects How Governments Borrow

Most governments worldwide borrow, for a variety of purposes. Countries in the Global South historically had fewer options for international credit, as they often were perceived by private sector investors as too risky. In the last two decades, however, the menu of options open to these countries has expanded. An important…

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Liechtenstein Institute’s Student-Led Simulation Holds Promise for U.N. Reform

At SPIA’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD), a student-led simulation is helping diplomats, students, and faculty members envision scenarios to foster a more accountable United Nations Security Council. The U.N. aims to maintain international peace and security and achieve international cooperation on a…

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Dean’s Dialogue: SPIA in D.C.

SPIA enters a new era with the establishment of a physical presence in the nation’s capital. Dean Amaney Jamal chats with Washington veteran Alan Blinder about the initiative. Subscribe to the Dean’s Dialogue and all of SPIA’s podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you find podcasts. Just search for “In the…