WWS Annual Report 2017-18 by Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Message from the Dean

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Our Faculty Hellos, Goodbyes, and Congratulations Faculty Research Faculty Awards Faculty Books Faculty Book Awards WWS Reacts Telling the WWS Story

Centers and Programs

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Our Students Graduate Policy Workshop Undergraduate Policy Task Forces

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Graduate Admissions Master in Public Affairs Master in Public Policy Ph.D. in Public Affairs

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71 Beyond the Classroom 71 Public Affairs Lectures 73 Student Life and Organizations 76 Extracurricular 77 Scholars in the Nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Service Initiative 79 Summer Programs 81 Internships 82 Career Destinations 83 83 85 87

Special Projects Legacy of Nobel Laureate Sir W. Arthur Lewis Commemorated at Robertson Hall Defending Democracy: Princeton Conference to Address Civil, Military Responses in an Age of Disinformation Reimagining Robertson

Message from

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Introduction The Woodrow Wilson School has had a productive year: During the period covered in this report, we have reviewed curriculum, redesigned an administrative office, launched innovative student programs, and continued efforts to redefine our physical space. We have given a lot of thought to how the Woodrow Wilson School can best provide a space for Princeton in the policy arena. In the pages ahead, we highlight faculty work and awards as well as achievements by our centers and programs, profile our students and their work in and out of the classroom, and showcase the many ways we tell the Woodrow Wilson School story. I want to highlight two particular areas of concentration. Graduate Program We are increasingly taking the time to conduct regular extensive reviews of our academic programs. This past year,

a Woodrow Wilson School faculty committee evaluated the Ph.D. in Public Affairs, an interdisciplinary degree that focuses on one of two research clusters: Security Studies; or Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP). Both include a substantial group of WWS faculty whose current research interests are central to the themes of the cluster. We found that the program is strong. However, the committee recommended a modest expansion of each cluster from three to four students per year to provide a greater sense of a community of scholars. The WWS faculty approved this recommendation, and it now moves to Princetonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Academic Planning Group for approval. The graduate program also experienced changes on the administrative front. In 2016 and 2017, two longtime members of the School who worked with graduate students retired: Ann Corwin, former director of graduate career services and alumni relations; and John Templeton, former director of graduate admissions. Together, they represented 65 years of service, institutional memory, and knowledge about the Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduate program.

Their departures prompted us to reflect on how to best organize and administer the program. While Graduate Career Services and Alumni Relations had been part of the Graduate Program Office (GPO), Graduate Admissions was separate. It made sense to bring all programs that touch our graduate students under the umbrella of the GPO, with one associate dean overseeing all functions. Additional positions were created and filled in addition to filling positions left vacant after retirements and resignations. We are pleased with the energy and focus of this newly redefined office.

spaces, including our flagship building Robertson Hall. During the time covered in this report, we completed renovations in three of our buildings and started work on the plan for the interior redesign of Robertson Hall. This renovation is the most ambitious and requires that we plan for a complex, temporary relocation of more than 150 faculty and staff, four research centers, and student study and lounge spaces. A detailed story is included in this report.

One of the new roles added was associate director of graduate student life and diversity initiatives. This past year, the associate director worked with other administrators to establish guidance and training on diversity issues for faculty, graduate program staff, and students; and instituted special programs throughout the year for students. Further, during the 2017-18 academic year, the faculty voted to create a standing committee on diversity and inclusion, comprised of faculty, students, and staff. A more complete overview of our efforts regarding diversity and inclusion can be found in this report.

Providing comprehensive educational programs and moving offices all take time and resources! But these challenges do not get in the way of thinking about next steps.

Our Physical Space Our 2015 strategic planning process identified a number of key goals and objectives for the School, including 1) more functional and efficient environments for teaching and research; 2) increased opportunities for collaboration; and 3) a stronger sense of community within WWS. It became evident that achieving these strategic objectives would involve renovating the School’s various physical

Summary

Specifically, we have identified two broad areas of particular focus: science policy –– including energy and environment and technology –– and education policy. Currently, four Woodrow Wilson School centers focus their work around these policy issues: the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy program (renamed the Center for Policy Research on Energy and Environment as of August 2018); the Center for Information Technology Policy; the Program on Science and Global Security; and the Education Research Section. These centers will help us shape future programming, particularly with regard to student and faculty opportunities. As we plan for the future, it is helpful to reflect back on the past year. We are pleased to share the details of a productive year in the pages that follow.

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Hellos, Goodbyes, and Congratulations

2017-18 Academic Year

New Faculty Professors Sanyu Mojola is professor of sociology and public affairs. Before joining the Woodrow Wilson School, she was associate professor of sociology at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Mojola’s research examines how societies produce health and illness, primarily focusing on the HIV/AIDS pandemic as it unfolds in various settings such as Kenya, the United States, and South Africa. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 2008.

California. Hendi’s research focuses on inequalities in health and mortality, the sociology of marriage and family, and formal demography. He received his Ph.D. in demography and sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. Patricia Kirkland is assistant professor of politics and public affairs. Before joining the Woodrow Wilson School, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Kirkland studies American politics with a focus on subnational politics and public policy, exploring representation, public finance, and fiscal health in American cities. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 2017.

James Vreeland is professor of politics and international affairs. Before joining the Woodrow Wilson School, Vreeland was professor of international relations at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He conducts research in the field of international political economy, specializing in such international institutions as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations. Vreeland received his Ph.D. in political science from New York University in 1999.

Owen Zidar is assistant professor of economics and public affairs; he served as a visiting assistant professor at the Woodrow Wilson School during the 2017-18 academic year. Zidar previously was assistant professor of economics at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. A public finance economist, he studies the taxation of firms and top earners, local fiscal policy, and the creation and distribution of economic profits. Zidar earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014.

Assistant Professors

Promotions

Arun Hendi is assistant professor of sociology and public affairs. Before joining the Woodrow Wilson School, he was assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern

Keren Yarhi-Milo was promoted to associate professor with tenure. She joined the Woodrow Wilson School in July 2009 as instructor of politics and international affairs. Previously,

she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a predoctoral fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, also at Harvard University. Yarhi-Milo’s research and teaching focus on international relations and foreign policy, with a particular specialization in international security, including foreign policy decision-making, interstate communication and crisis bargaining, intelligence, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2010. Emeritus Status Martin I. Gilens, professor of politics and public affairs, transferred to emeritus status effective July 1, 2018. He is now professor of public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before coming to Princeton, he taught at Yale University. His research examines representation, public opinion, and mass media, especially in relation to inequality and public policy. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. Thomas Romer, professor of politics and public affairs and director of the Research Program in Political Economy, transferred to emeritus status effective Sept. 1, 2018. He taught at the University of Western Ontario and Carnegie Mellon University before joining the Woodrow Wilson School faculty in 1991. Romer’s work explores the interaction of market and nonmarket forces that influence the allocation of economic resources. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1974.

New Distinguished Visitors Ryan Crocker, a visiting lecturer and diplomat-in-residence, joined the Woodrow Wilson School in the 2017-18 academic year. Crocker served as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan (201112), Iraq (2007-09), Pakistan (2004-07), Syria (1998-2001), Kuwait (1994-97), and Lebanon (1990-93). Salam Fayyad, a visiting senior scholar and Daniella Lipper Coules ’95 Distinguished Visitor in Foreign Affairs, joined the Woodrow Wilson School in the 2017-18 academic year. An economist, Fayyad is the former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority and had tenures at the International Monetary Fund and the Arab Bank in Palestine. Departures Christina L. Davis, professor of politics and international affairs, left Princeton University after the 2017-18 academic year for a new position at Harvard University. Davis joined the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School in July 2002 as an assistant professor. She received her Ph.D. in political science in 2001 from Harvard University, and her research interests include the politics and foreign policy of Japan, East Asia, and the European Union and the study of international organizations. In Memoriam During the 2017-18 academic year, the Woodrow Wilson School honored the lives and significant influence of two of its professors: Uwe Reinhardt (1937-2017), the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and professor of economics and public affairs; and Adel Mahmoud (1941-2018), lecturer with the rank of professor in molecular biology and public policy. 66

Faculty Research

Hostile Neighbors Pose Big Threats to Governance Melissa M. Lee

Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs

ome nations use subversion and coercion to keep neighboring countries weak and advance their own foreign policy interests, according to a 2018 study by Melissa M. Lee. For example, without actually invading Eastern Ukraine, Russia made Ukraine ungovernable by fomenting dissent and aiding separatism.

The study, published in the journal International Organization, found that between 1960 and 2012, a number of countries have degraded state authority among their neighbors. The actions of these “hostile neighbors” have severe consequences for weak nations’ security, economic growth, and well-being of its populace. The paper urges policymakers and analysts in the intelligence, diplomatic, and military communities to think beyond conflict in purely country-to-country terms. The reality is more complex, as local actors, like the separatists in Ukraine, often serve as proxies for another country, like Russia. This form of statecraft doesn’t involve force or war. Moreover, given the external players involved, approaching state weakness as solely a domestic issue is limiting. “Think of this as a replacement for direct force and warfare of another kind. Countries can advance their own interests without using direct force or taking over territory,” said Lee, assistant professor of politics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School. Lee was interested in why certain countries fail to govern their own territories. She used statistical analysis to see whether bordering states or outside actors play a role. Her sample included 78 countries with 710 unique border provinces between 1960 and 2012. She controlled for domestic factors that could affect state authority including terrain ruggedness, distance from the capital, population density, whether ethnic groups are split across a border, and so forth.

Lee found that being next to a hostile rival has a profound effect on a country’s ability to govern itself. Countries also face challenges governing themselves when ethnic groups are split across a border. The paper concluded with a qualitative examination of Malaysia’s role in undermining domestic sovereignty in the 1970s in Mindanao, a region of the southern Philippines. The data, as well as this case study, all support Lee’s theory that third-party countries use subversion and coercion to advance their own interests. “From Ukraine to Pakistan to the Philippines, ungoverned spaces are breeding grounds for crime and illicit economic activity, all of which pulls resources away from the state,” Lee said. “It is in these quiet places where you can’t always go, like Georgia, where outside actors like Russia can have a supremely powerful influence. And, in some ways, once you no longer have the violence, it’s actually more insidious.”

“Ungoverned spaces are breeding grounds for crime and illicit economic activity, all of which pulls resources away from the state.” –– Melissa M. Lee 8

Orange Is the New Green: How Orange Peels Revived a Costa Rican Forest David S. Wilcove

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute

n the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and pulp were unloaded onto a barren pasture in a Costa Rican national park. When a team led by Princeton researchers surveyed the land 16 years later, they found a 176 percent increase in the wood in the trees, called aboveground biomass. Their results were published in 2017 in the journal Restoration Ecology.

The story shows how agricultural waste can not only regenerate a forest but also sequester a significant amount of carbon at no cost. “Plenty of environmental problems are produced by companies,” said study co-author David S. Wilcove, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs. “But an awful lot of those problems can be alleviated if the private sector and the environmental community work together. That’s recycling at its best.”

Princeton. The research team evaluated two sets of soil samples to determine whether the orange peels had enriched the soil’s nutrients.

The idea was sparked by Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs ’76, husband-wife ecologists at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1997, Janzen and Hallwachs presented a deal to orange juice manufacturer Del Oro: If the company would donate part of its forested land to Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG, Guanacaste Conservation Area) in Costa Rica, the company could deposit its orange peel waste for biodegradation, at no cost, on degraded land within the park.

“This is one of the only instances I’ve ever heard of where you can have cost-negative carbon sequestration,” Treuer said.

But a year after the contract was signed, a rival company sued, arguing the company had “defiled a national park.” The rival won the case, and the land was largely overlooked for 15 years. In 2013, Janzen told Tim Treuer, co-lead author of the study and a graduate student in Princeton’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, about the site. On a trip to Costa Rica, Treuer stopped by to see what had changed. It was completely overgrown.

They found dramatic differences between the areas covered in orange peels and those that were not. The area fertilized by orange waste had richer soil, more tree biomass, greater treespecies richness, and greater forest canopy closure.

“An awful lot of environmental problems can be alleviated if the private sector and the environmental community work together.” – David S. Wilcove

Treuer studied the area with Jonathan Choi, who, at the time, was a senior studying ecology and evolutionary biology at

Balance Forgiveness Programs More Effective Debt Relief Than Lowering Minimum Payments w

Will Dobbie

Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

ven when credit card debt seems manageable, some consumers may be only one emergency away from financial crisis. Approximately 25 percent of U.S. households report being unable to come up with $2,000 to cover an unexpected emergency. Conventional wisdom among policymakers and borrowers is that a lack of liquidity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; how much cash one can currently access â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is the most important factor in financial distress. A common strategy for helping borrowers manage their credit

card debt has been for banks to decrease minimum monthly payments so that borrowers have more cash on hand each month after payments are made. A 2017 working paper by Will Dobbie at the Woodrow Wilson School counters this widespread view and suggests that relief targeting longer-term debt, such as partial forgiveness of account balances, has a greater effect on a borrower’s overall financial health than strategies concentrating on short-term liquidity. Dobbie, assistant professor of economics and public affairs, and Jae Song of the U.S. Social Security Administration, matched tax, bankruptcy, and credit records with data from a large randomized field experiment of various debt relief strategies offered by a credit card repayment program. Participants in the trial, who were referred to a debt management plan due to perceived likelihood of default without the program, were offered different strategies to manage their debt. Some focused more on debt write-downs, or partial forgiveness of balances to address long-term debt, while others focused more on reducing minimum payments to boost liquidity. The researchers found that concentrating on longer-term balances significantly improved both financial and labor market outcomes for borrowers. In contrast, the study found no positive effects for borrowers taking greater advantage of minimum debt payment reductions.

With a reduction in minimum monthly payments, the number of months a borrower remained in the repayment program increased because overall debt didn’t decrease; rather, payments were spread over a longer time, with interest accruing each month. The study implies that this is a major reason why short-term liquidity fixes didn’t help. “Our results suggest that there may be substantial benefits of considering changes to current banking regulations that would allow greater flexibility in debt forgiveness plans,” Dobbie said.

“There may be substantial benefits of considering changes to current banking regulations that would allow greater flexibility in debt forgiveness plans.” –– Will Dobbie

Police Officers Highly Motivated by Supervisor Scrutiny Jonathan Mummolo

Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs

olice officers are highly responsive to the scrutiny of their superiors, according to a study published by Jonathan Mummolo, assistant professor of politics and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School. The findings suggest that rules and supervision can be effective at reforming police behavior. The study, published in the Journal of Politics, examined millions of police records from the New York Police Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (NYPD) stop-questionand-frisk program â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a controversial police tactic wherein officers detain, question, and potentially search pedestrians.

Between 2005 and 2011, hundreds of thousands of stops were made each year, and the vast majority of those stopped were people of color. In 2013, in response to a pending lawsuit, the NYPD suddenly mandated that officers provide thorough, narrative descriptions of their stops of criminal suspects to their superiors, justifying their reasons for each stop. Mummolo wanted to determine whether the procedural change caused officers to make higher-quality stops, perhaps due to an increase in the perceived level of scrutiny from their superiors. Using more than 3 million records of police-citizen interactions, he measured the rate at which officers found evidence of the crime that motivated stops, a metric known as the “hit rate.” Of the 3 million stops recorded from 2008 through 2015, nearly 830,000 were conducted due to suspicion of criminal possession of a weapon. Of these stops, around 3.5 percent produced a weapon in the period before the new mandate was issued, and that rate stayed more or less constant for years. But the day the reform was issued, and in the months that followed, the hit rate increased dramatically, signifying that the reasoning for the stops was more in line with the actual outcomes. The result was a noticeable decline in the number of arguably unnecessary weapon stops, where a weapon was not found.

a critical piece of evidence that can further effective police reform,” Mummolo said. Mummolo’s study represents a rare case in which police behavior was recorded with very high frequency before and after an unanticipated procedural change, allowing for a causal analysis of the rule’s impact. With many calling for criminal justice reform and oversight of police organizations, these findings have important implications for police organizations and activist groups.

“Knowing that officers are so responsive to new agency rules contrasts with prior characterizations of officers as being autonomous and relatively impervious to supervision, and is a critical piece of evidence that can further effective police reform.” – Jonathan Mummolo

“Knowing that officers are so responsive to new agency rules contrasts with prior characterizations of officers as being autonomous and relatively impervious to supervision, and is

Purple Districts Elect the Most Extreme Legislators, Driving Polarization Nolan McCarty

Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs; Chair, Department of Politics

o-called purple voting districts that change hands between Republicans and Democrats — rather than reliably conservative and liberal districts — are an underappreciated source of rising political polarization in state legislatures, according to a study co-authored by Nolan McCarty. As judged by the views of the median voter, such districts may appear to be politically moderate, but that isn’t true. Instead, voters in these districts tend to be highly polarized themselves, with relatively few moderate voters in the middle.

Rather than hew to the center, Republicans and Democrats who represent purple districts tend to take more extreme positions, as measured by their roll-call votes, than do their counterparts in reliably red and blue districts. McCarty and his co-authors published the study in the academic journal Political Science Research and Methods. “Our finding calls into question the notion that reformers can reverse legislative polarization by replacing politically homogeneous districts with more competitive, ideologically diverse districts,” said McCarty, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs and chair of the Department of Politics at Princeton. McCarty and his co-authors examined voter preferences and legislators’ roll-call votes in state senate districts. This allowed them to trace the roll-call voting patterns of thousands of state senators, rather than just 435 U.S. representatives or 100 senators in the U.S. Congress. At the same time, compared to smaller districts for state House seats, state senate districts are large enough to produce reliable samples of voter preferences. It turns out that Republicans and Democrats represent purple districts very differently, taking more extreme positions in the legislature, on average, than their party colleagues from more ideologically homogeneous districts. And states with the highest proportion of polarized purple districts, like California, Colorado and Washington, also have the highest levels of legislative polarization.

cohort of centrists. Therefore, the researchers have “identified a class of districts that are moderate on average without containing large densities of moderates,” McCarty said. Reformers often believe polarization has grown because districts have become too homogeneous, McCarty said, and they argue the solution to polarization lies in creating more ideologically diverse, politically competitive districts. This study, he said, “turns this conventional wisdom on its head. When control of the legislature hinges on fierce competition within internally polarized winner-take-all districts, candidates and parties do not necessarily face incentives for moderation.”

“Our finding calls into question the notion that reformers can reverse legislative polarization by replacing politically homogeneous districts with more competitive, ideologically diverse districts.” – Nolan McCarty

Because of recent demographic changes, so-called “moderate” purple districts often contain distinct geographic clusters of liberal and conservative voters, with no large 16

Lower-Income Children Raised in Counties With High Upward Mobility Display Fewer Behavioral Issues, Perform Better on Cognitive Tests Sara S. McLanahan

William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs

hildren from low-income families who grew up in counties with high upward mobility had fewer behavior problems and higher cognitive test scores when compared with low-income children from counties with lower mobility, according to a study led by Sara S. McLanahan, William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School. The results are based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, of which McLanahan, who is founding director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, is a principal investigator.

“Our findings suggest that the developmental processes through which place promotes upward mobility begin in childhood and depend on the extent to which communities enrich the cognitive and social-emotional skills of children from low-income families,” McLanahan said. The study is a population-based birth-cohort study of children born in 20 large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000. For their analyses, the researchers looked at 4,226 children from 562 U.S. counties whose developmental outcomes were assessed at approximately ages 3, 5, and 9 years old. The researchers divided these children into low- and high-income groups based on household income at birth. After analyzing the data, the researchers found that children who grew up in counties with higher intergenerational mobility showed steady gains in test scores between ages 3 and 9, compared to those who grew up in counties with lower intergenerational mobility. These gains first appeared at age 5 and accumulated over time, which is consistent with the argument that high-quality pre-K and elementary schools are an important part of what makes growing up in a high-mobility county beneficial, the researchers found. The pattern for behavioral problems was somewhat different. For this outcome, the advantages associated with being raised in a county with high intergenerational mobility appeared by age 3 and neither grew nor declined after that.

These two findings — early appearance and the lack of cumulate effects — do not point to specific community institutions that cause fewer behavioral problems. However, according to the authors, community factors that may account for these findings include programs that affect children directly, such as access to high-quality health care or preschool, or programs that affect children indirectly by reducing parents’ economic insecurity, like housing. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides further evidence that place, measured at the county level, has a significant influence over the economic prospects of children from low-income families.

Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide Alan S. Blinder

The Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

lan S. Blinder’s latest book, “Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide,” explores how economists and politicians often approach the economy from different vantage points, producing poor economic policy. In the book, he argues that economists sometimes overlook the human costs of good economic policy, while politicians simply use the economic theories that reinforce their already held beliefs. If politicians and economists could better work

together, they are more likely to produce policies to overcome the ways our economy fails some Americans. A renowned economist, Blinder is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School. He served as a member of President Bill Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers and then as vice chairman of the Board of the Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Blinder said the views of economists and politicians are so different that they can be said to live in two different worlds where communication between the two groups is quite poor. In writing the book, he was motivated by what he calls the “lamppost theory.” That is, politicians use economics the way a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not for illumination. “Politicians from both parties routinely ignore the best economic advice but sometimes accept the worst — if it accords with their political positions,” Blinder said. “This is not a recipe for success, to put it mildly. And fixing it requires many changes on both sides.” The big lesson of the book, according to Blinder, is that society loses when good economic remedies are discarded and bad economic remedies are accepted. For example, he said, virtually all economists — regardless of their political

party — think we need to tax carbon emissions to combat global climate change. “But essentially no politicians, whether Democrats or Republicans, support the idea,” he said, “so guess what happens.” Blinder cautions, however, that we won’t get better economic policy by trying to get politicians to act like economists. They shouldn’t do so, he said, for many reasons. For one thing, “economists dote on efficiency rather than fairness, whereas public attitudes are just the reverse. And if politicians’ time horizons are too short, economists’ time horizons are too long.”

“Politicians from both parties routinely ignore the best economic advice but sometimes accept the worst — if it accords with their political positions.” –– Alan S. Blinder

Pride Tops Guilt as a Motivator for Environmental Decisions Elke U. Weber

Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs

any pro-environmental messages try to induce guilt if people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make an effort to live more sustainably or take steps to ameliorate climate change. But a study led by Elke U. Weber, a professor of psychology and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, found that highlighting the pride people will feel if they take environmentally friendly actions might be a better way to change behaviors.

Past research has shown that anticipating how one will feel afterward plays a big role in decision-making — particularly when making decisions that affect others. “In simple terms, people tend to avoid taking actions that could result in negative emotions, such as guilt and sadness, and to pursue those that will result in positive states, such as pride and joy,” said Weber, who also is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment. Pro-environmental messaging sometimes emphasizes pride to spur people into action, Weber said, but it more often focuses on guilt. She and her colleagues wondered which works better. To find out, they asked people from a sample of 987 diverse participants recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform to think about either the pride they would feel after taking pro-environmental actions or the guilt they would feel for not doing so, just before making a series of decisions related to the environment. The results revealed a clear pattern. “Overall,” Weber said, “participants who were exposed to anticipation of pride consistently reported higher pro-environmental intentions than those exposed to anticipated guilt.” “Because most appeals for pro-environmental action rely on guilt to motivate their target audience, our findings suggest a rethinking of environmental and climate change messaging

to harness the power of positive emotions like pride,” Weber said. Weber conducted the study with doctoral degree candidate Claudia Schneider, who was visiting Princeton’s Department of Psychology through the Ivy League Exchange Scholar Program, and colleagues at Columbia University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The study appeared in the academic journal PLOS ONE.

“People tend to avoid situations that result in negative emotions and to pursue situations and actions that will result in a positive mood state.” –– Elke U. Weber

Faculty

Awards

Roland J. Benabou Corresponding Member, AcadĂŠmie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, Institut de France

Robert O. Keohane 2016 Balzan Prize for International Relations, History, and Theory, International Balzan Prize Foundation

Anne Case Member, American Philosophical Society

Alan B. Krueger Member, Rework America Task Force, Markle Foundation

Member, National Academy of Medicine Edward Felten Member, Rework America Task Force, Markle Foundation Noreen J. Goldman Vice President Elect, Population Association of America Gene M. Grossman Lifetime Fellow, International Economic Association Meg Jacobs Member, Society of American Historians

Daniel C. Kurtzer 2018 Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Award for Distinguished Achievement, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University Alexandre Mas Co-Director, Labor Studies Program, National Bureau of Economic Research Douglas S. Massey 2018 Bronislaw Malinowski Award, Society for Applied Anthropology 2017 Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities, American Philosophical Society

Elizabeth Levy Paluck 2017 MacArthur Fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg 2017 Fellow, The Econometric Society

Thibaut Award for Social Psychology, University of North Carolina

Shirley M. Tilghman Member, International Scientific Advisory Committee, Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Stephen Redding 2018 Frisch Medal, Econometric Society

Julian E. Zelizer Distinguished Senior Fellow, New-York Historical Society

2017 Bhagwati Award, Journal of International Economics Uwe Reinhardt (1937 - 2017) 2017 Bipartisan Health Policy Leadership Award, National Alliance of Health Policy Chair Award, AcademyHealth

Faculty Books Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict Co-authored by: Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, and Jacob N. Shapiro Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide By: Alan S. Blinder Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics By: Rafaela M. Dancygier Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion By: Paul Frymer Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It Co-authored by: Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page The Essential Tversky Edited by: Eldar Shafir Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Report Chapter, “The Media and Race Relations,” authored by: Julian E. Zelizer

Inventing the Silent Majority in Western Europe and the United States: Conservatism in the 1960s and 1970s Chapter, “American Conservatism From Roosevelt to Johnson,” authored by: Julian E. Zelizer The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment Edited by: Julian E. Zelizer The Presidency of Barack Obama Chapters, “Policy Revolution Without a Political Transformation: The Presidency of Barack Obama” and “Tea-Partied: President Obama’s Encounters with the Conservative-Industrial Complex,” authored by: Julian E. Zelizer Upon Further Review: The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History Chapter, “What if Richard Nixon Had Been Good at Football?” authored by: Julian E. Zelizer

Faculty Book Awards Paul Frymer Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion 2018 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Stephen Kotkin Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 2018 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, Mary Lynton History Prize, Columbia University Journalism School Finalist, Arthur Ross Book Award, Council on Foreign Relations Julian E. Zelizer The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society D.B. Hardeman Prize, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation

Rory Truex Making Autocracy Work: Representation and Responsiveness in Modern China 2017 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award, American Political Science Association

WWS Reacts WWS Reacts is a series of interviews featuring Woodrow Wilson School faculty addressing current events and summaries of testimonies before elected officials.

Trump’s Tax Proposal Oct. 3, 2017 Alan S. Blinder Trump and the Iran Nuclear Deal Oct. 10, 2017 Zia Mian and Frank von Hippel What the Fall of Raqqa Means for the Future of ISIS Oct. 20, 2017 Jacob N. Shapiro Sustained U.S. Leadership Vital to Achieve Long-term Stability in Iraq Nov. 6, 2017 Ryan C. Crocker Putin’s Attacks on Democracy Jan. 16, 2018 Jacob N. Shapiro

Trump’s State of the Union Jan. 31, 2018 Jacob N. Shapiro, Marta Tienda, Alan S. Blinder, Steven Strauss, and Heather Howard United States Should Continue Leading in Artificial Intelligence Feb. 8, 2018 Edward Felten The 2020 Census March 30, 2018 Douglas S. Massey The ISIS Files April 6, 2018 Jacob N. Shapiro Paul Ryan’s Retirement and the Republican Party April 11, 2018 Nolan McCarty

Cuba’s New President April 19, 2018 Miguel Centeno and Stanley N. Katz U.S. Embassy Moved to Jerusalem, Protests Spark May 14, 2018 Daniel C. Kurtzer U.S. Support for Good Governance in Middle East is Key to Stopping Threats like ISIS June 11, 2018 Ryan C. Crocker Justice Anthony Kennedy Announces Retirement June 28, 2018 Paul Frymer

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Politics & Polls is a podcast series produced by the Woodrow Wilson School’s Offi ce of Public Aff airs and Communications featuring Julian E. Zelizer, the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Aff airs; and Sam Wang, professor of molecular biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. The podcast originated with conversations between Zelizer and Wang about the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign after they had done one live for an Ivy Plus conference. Today, the duo tackles a range of current political topics and current events. Over the past year, they’ve interviewed a number of infl uential guest speakers from academia, journalism, the entertainment industry, and more. Since its launch, the pair has recorded more than 100 episodes. Released weekly, the podcast is available on: This Year’s Most Popular Episode Politics & Polls #81: One Nation After Trump March 8, 2018 Is President Donald Trump a threat to American democracy? This is explored in a new book by The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne Jr., a regular on MSNBC, NPR’s All Things Considered, and ABC News’ This Week. He joined this episode to discuss this new era of politics and what it means for American democracy. 30

#WooWho #WooWho is an Instagram series featuring the stories of Woodrow Wilson School faculty, staff, and students. These vignettes allow readers to step inside Robertson Hall, showcasing the Woodrow Wilson School community. Since its debut, the series has grown popular, generating hundreds of likes and dozens of comments on the School’s Instagram account.

Regina Burke Academic Program Coordinator, Graduate Program Office “I grew up in a rural part of Ireland, with a strong sense of family (I have 8 older siblings!), and that family included our entire neighborhood. Four days after I was born, my family’s home burned down. But, my family did not spend more than a week apart; the entire area came together to help us get set up in temporary homes, until our new house was built in a very fast time. My parents always helped their neighbors and friends, but I think the help that we received then increased my parents’ need to give back to others and to our town, and that only developed more as I got older. That’s what we do here at the Woodrow Wilson School as well - give back to others.”

Natalie Fahlberg ’18 “I fell in love with public service and international relations in high school. I knew my life had a higher purpose, and I felt a call to serve. In my sophomore year at Princeton, I joined ROTC, which helped me hone my leadership skills and inspired me to serve as an aviation officer in the U.S. Army. Today, I am a Black Hawk pilot in the New Jersey National Guard, and I eventually want to be a medevac pilot. I hope to further my education by either pursuing a Ph.D. in international relations or a law degree and continue exploring my senior thesis topic — women in the military — and build upon the knowledge I have gained at Princeton and the Woodrow Wilson School.” 31

Patrick McDonnell MPA/J.D. ’20 “The plan was to go to law school — probably since I was 12 years old. The world looked like a huge chess board, and I wanted to see how the pieces worked together. I saw the U.S. Army as an opportunity to learn, grow, and develop as a leader. There, I advanced my interests in security. My experience motivated a desire to insert myself at a higher level — at the point where policy objectives are codified into law. When the government directs the warfighter (those on the ground) to fight, policymakers need to think of all tertiary and secondary effects. Someone needs an understanding of what happens on the ground when a particular policy is formed. That is what really drew me to the intersection between security and law.”

Angela Ratliff Graduate Admissions Assistant, Graduate Admissions Office “My childhood was spent on our family’s farm in Ohio, where we raised cattle and grew grains. I had to learn to be creative with entertaining myself. I did a lot of crafting, and my grandmother taught me how to cook. Coming from a humble upbringing, hosting a meal was a big deal. Sharing what you had was how you showed appreciation for others. I would like to think that my upbringing has helped me in my career. My job isn’t just to provide information but also to extend hospitality to those who call or visit the School. I’m often one of the first people that prospective students speak with when they visit the School, and I want them to feel at home here.”

Martine DeSimone MPA ’18 “When I was younger, coming to the United States to study wasn’t impossible — it was unthinkable. In 2001, Argentina — where I’m from — just went through an intense political and economic crisis. As a young boy, this was a critical juncture. My father lost his job and couldn’t find work. This is when I learned that an economic crisis and poverty doesn’t just affect the economy, it also affects your mental health and your physical well-being. After the economic downturn, both of my parents passed away; I was a teenager. I realized I wanted to commit my life to public service. I received a scholarship to go to college in Argentina, and now here I am at the Woo. What was once unthinkable became a reality.”

Jeffrey Oakman MPA ’03 Associate Director of Finance and Administration, Graduate Program Office “When I came here as a student in 2001, I knew I wanted to get a policy and urban planning degree, but I hadn’t spent much time thinking about how public service tied into who I was as a person and what my values were. When I got to campus, I realized this was the driving force behind why so many of my classmates were here. I came to appreciate that I share that commitment as well. Now, I’m back at the Woodrow Wilson School in a new role as an administrator. Having been here and experienced what the program has to offer and how it prepares you — and then turning that into a career — I felt like it was one of the things I wanted to give back.”

Stefanie Mavronis MPA ’18 “I’m a first-generation college student and the first in my family to be in a graduate program. I came here worrying I was maybe a bit too outside of the box. Instead, I found a community of students committed to figuring out how to best approach policymaking. I’m determined to change how policy is being made. The people who are directly impacted by policy are integral to how we design that policy. How do we get to a place where we make people-centered policy? We need the insights of those people, but unfortunately, there aren’t always strong mechanisms to involve them. Sometimes they are consulted later, which makes them feel like their priorities don’t matter. My goal is to change this and design policies that better involve the community.”

Roberto C. Felipe Financial Coordinator, Office of Financial Management “A few years ago, I visited family in the Dominican Republic. I saw how people who may have never met you were willing to open their hearts and their homes to you. I try to mimic that attitude every day. Many may see my role here as someone who helps to manage the finances, but I see it as an opportunity to help others. Seeing the appreciation in people’s eyes when I help them to solve a problem is amazing. At the Woodrow Wilson School, we are a family who helps each other — a family that supports each other during good and bad times, expecting nothing in return.”

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Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies Center for Health and Wellbeing Center for Information Technology Policy Center for International Security Studies Center for the Study of Democratic Politics Education Research Section Innovations for Successful Societies Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance Office of Population Research Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program Princeton Survey Research Center Program in Law and Public Affairs Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Program on Science and Global Security Research Program in Development Studies Research Program in Political Economy

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• The Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing released data from the Year 15 wave of the “Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study.” The center is currently resubmitting a proposal to Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to conduct another round of interviews when the children are age 22.

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The “mass collaboration” phase of the Fragile Families Challenge (funded by the Russell Sage Foundation) was completed, and the center cohosted a scientifi c workshop. The next phase involves completion of a special issue of Socius to highlight top-performing and innovative work during the challenge and qualitative interviews with 45 families that defi ed the models’ predictions of teens’ grade point average.

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On the Bio-Social Project, funded by NICHD, the center’s laboratory has produced several measures, including DNA polygenetic scores, telomere length at ages 9 and 15 and DNA methylation at ages 9 and 15. Several papers focusing on children’s telomere length were published this past year.

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The Future of Children journal published two issues with accompanying policy briefs: “Social and Emotional Learning” in spring 2017 and “Reducing Justice System Inequality” in spring 2018. The journal also published a shorter policy issue, “Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap,” in winter 2018. Each issue was accompanied by an event at the Brookings Institution and/or a practitioners’ conference at Princeton University. Three issues are in progress for 2019: “Beyond Abuse and Neglect: Universal Approaches to Promote Healthy Development,” “Research-Practitioner Partnerships,” and “Culture and Social Mobility.”

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The center continues to work with its partners at Cambridge University and the Jacobs Foundation to produce the Child and Family Blog (www.childandfamilyblog.com) including editing all blog content and writing posts by Future of Children authors.

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The center has been listed as one of the “Top 15 Child Development blogs” to follow in 2018.

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The Center for Health and Wellbeing’s Global Health Program funded and facilitated internships and research opportunities for 69 undergraduates in 21 countries in 2017. The Global Health Program established new summer internship partnerships with the U.S. Peace Corps’ Office of Global Health and HIV in Washington, D.C., and with the health interventions research unit of the nongovernmental organization International Care Ministries in the Philippines. The center supported more than 120 undergraduates enrolled in the Global Health and Health Policy certificate program. Six graduate students earned the Health and Health Policy certificate. Recent centersponsored courses include “You Are What You Eat: Bio-Cultural Explorations of Food and Health,” “Planetary Health: Human Health in the Anthropocene,” and “Economics of Health and Health Care.” The center organized a major conference on “Law and Reproductive Health Politics in an Unjust World: Perspectives From Across the Americas,” featuring an interdisciplinary group of expert panelists from six countries. Among the 18 seminars the center co-sponsored with the Research Program in Development Studies were “Physician Behavior in the Presence of a Secondary Market: The Case of Prescription

Opioids,” and “Do Mammograms Save Lives?” The Global Health Program’s monthly public colloquium series featured lunch talks on “Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat,” and “Zero TB Initiative: Developing a Biosocial Approach to Stop Tuberculosis,” among others. The center also hosted events with notable visitors, including U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams. •

The center sponsored a range of research initiatives by affiliated faculty and associates, including ”Aging and Work: The Health Consequences,” “Epidemiology of Antibiotic Use in U.S. Hospitals,” and “Measles and Rubella Serology in Madagascar: Estimating Burden and Targets for Vaccination.”

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The center hosted four visiting research scholars and five postdoctoral research associates working on various projects, including examining the impact of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform, the effects of natural disasters on maternal and child health, the interaction between infectious disease dynamics and socioeconomic disparities, and the role of community health workers in developing countries.

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The center launched its artifi cial intelligence (AI) and public policy initiative in October 2017. This initiative brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to work on AI-related policy areas including ethics, free expression, fairness, diversity, privacy, safety, and economic impacts. This work includes collaboration with the University Center for Human Values and colleagues at other institutions. During the last year, the center convened 22 lunch seminars, 12 lectures and special events, and 10 private workshops and public conferences. The center also launched its inaugural “CITP on the Road” conference series sponsored by the Jerome C. Blum Memorial Fund on Dec. 8, 2017, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The center continued its teaching- and education-related initiatives. The Technology and Society, Information Technology Track certifi cate program graduated 12 students in 2018. The center’s Tech Policy Boot Camp was held during the fall break, and 16 students (graduate and undergraduate) explored technology policy in Washington

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The center will participate in the University Blockchain Research Initiative funded by Ripple to support academic research, technical development and innovation in blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital payments. The center will receive a multiyear, multimillion dollar commitment from Ripple to support research and fund graduate fellowships, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars. Princeton is among the fi rst group of universities to be included in this initiative.

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The center continued its research initiatives around the Internet of Things security, interconnection measurements, censorship and fi ltering, privacy, national security, and surveillance. The center also added seven new faculty affi liates from diverse disciplines that have active research collaborations with the center. These include Ruha Benjamin, Samory Kpotufe, Jonathan Mayer, Olga Russakovsky, Jacob N. Shapiro, Samuel S. Wang, and Melissa Lane.

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The center held a conference in April 2018 exploring national and international security policy issues in cybersecurity. A select group of scholars and policy experts participated in panels focusing on cyber warfare, digital terrorism, internet governance, the protection of defense systems from cyber intrusion, and the role of the private sector in cyber security. The conference was co-sponsored with the Center for Information Technology Policy. Twenty-six undergraduate and graduate students participated in an international staff ride to Spain in March 2018 to study a relatively understudied conflict: the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Visiting sites prominent in the conduct of that war gave students firsthand exposure to a variety of themes relevant to the conduct of warfare today, including civil war, the role of propaganda in war, international intervention in domestic conflicts, the power of defense, unity of command, and the use of tanks and air power. The center’s Program on International Relations and Strategic Affairs, now in its seventh year, featured presentations from leading experts from Princeton and other institutions focused on strategic international issues. The event also featured five Indian Members of Parliament (MPs). As leaders in their states and parties, MPs are fully engaged in determining India’s role in the

international system, and several former participants in our program are now serving in prominent positions in the Indian government, including the cabinet. •

A continuing cornerstone of the center’s collaborative research partnerships is the Five University Collaboration on East Asian Security Cooperation. Now in its ninth year, Princeton’s partnership with the University of Tokyo, Peking University, Korea University, and the National University of Singapore has resulted in annual workshops that focus on scholarly and policy exchange on problems of security conflict and cooperation in East Asia. The 2017 workshop was hosted in Seoul by Korea University and attended by faculty and graduate students from Princeton.

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The center’s Strategic Education Initiative sponsored more than 40 events throughout the 2017-18 academic year including two crisis simulations, a staff ride to the Gettysburg Battlefield, a film series, a career series, a series on military/civil relations, and a number of talks on international security issues from noted academics and policy experts in the field. The academic year culminated with a talk by retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen, president of the Brookings Institution.

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Politics worked closely with the Stennis Center for Public Service Leadership to bring to Princeton their roundtable conference on the theme of “Meeting the Legislative Branch Leadership Challenge in an Era of Mistrust, Disinformation, and Miscommunication” for senior congressional staffers, representing both houses of Congress and both major political parties. The Stennis Center was established by Congress to promote public service as a noble calling, enhance leadership skills, and foster relationships among leaders. The Center for the Study of Democratic Politics hosted the two-day event, including the dinner at which Dean Cecilia Elena Rouse was the keynote speaker, which provided an opportunity for many MPA and MPP students to discuss with these legislative directors and other senior staffers timely issues facing Congress. The center brought together academics, policymakers, and journalists to examine the “U.S. Presidency in Crisis?” Presenters included prominent columnists and reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post, a former governor and secretary of the Navy, former White House staff, other journalists and policymakers, and top scholars in the field from around the nation. The Boston Review invited submission of the essays prepared for the conference and is reviewing them for publication and dissemination.

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The center funded and facilitated a range of research and policy initiatives by center associates, including “The Politicization of the Legislative Bureaucracy”; “Professional Networks, Corruption, and the Revolving Door in Food Inspections”; “The Influence of Online Social Interactions on Asian Americans’ Partisan Political Attitudes”; “The Presidency and the Administrative State”; and “The Social Media Activity of Advocacy Organizations Representing Women, People of Color, and LGBT People.”

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The third annual “Princeton Conference on Identity and Inequality,” organized by the center, highlighted cutting-edge research on timely issues of immigration, populism, religion, and spending policy in the United States and nationally.

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Educational programming and research support continues for 38 faculty associates, 30 doctoral students, and distinguished visiting scholars and postdoctoral scholars, including a weekly seminar and colloquium series, research assistantships and grants, and exploration of political and policy topics through workshops and other forums ranging from exploring financial market evidence for banks’ influence on administrative agencies to the effect of militarization of police on reputation, safety, and crime.

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The Education Research Section hosted a practitioners’ conference “Lessons Learned from School Reform Initiatives” in the spring of 2018. This was an outreach event for the Future of Children’s policy issue on “Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap.”

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The Education Research Section hosted a practitioners’ conference “Developing Social and Emotional Learning in our Schools” in the fall of 2017. More than 250 local school leaders were in attendance. This was an outreach event for the Future of Children journal’s issue on ”Social and Emotional Learning.”

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The Education Research Section’s policy workshop series continues to be successful. This lunchtime workshop gathers an interdisciplinary team of faculty and graduate students to discuss “works in progress” related to education policy.

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Jennifer L. Jennings, professor of sociology and public aff airs at the Woodrow Wilson School was added to the Education Research Section list of affi liated faculty.

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Sabine Kastner, professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute was added to the Education Research Section list of affi liated faculty.

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Innovations for Successful Societies began work on two projects with the Gates Foundation to consider how to improve domestic revenue mobilization and translation of strategic priorities (social priorities mainly) into budget processes. The program’s part of the initiative is to help identify how a handful of low-income and low middle-income countries have managed to succeed on both dimensions when most have failed.

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The program completed work on three anticorruption projects funded by the Department for International Development. The program also completed projects on the U.S. interagency coordination process in the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak.

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The program released the “Making Government Work in Hard Places” Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in an un-curated, stand-alone version at the request of groups in South Africa. The MOOC was also translated into Burmese/ Myanmar and is in use in Myanmar to train new civilian civil servants and political parties. It has also been asked to be translated into Urdu.

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In addition to undertaking a variety of other projects, the program worked with two MPP students to transform case studies they developed in “Making Government Work in Hard Places” into published work.

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In August 2017, the program hosted a United Nations Development Programme-funded workshop that brought Africa deputy prime ministers and chiefs of staff to campus to discuss managing center-of-government functions. In October 2017, the program teamed up with the U.N. System Staff College to sponsor a three-day training program on organizational innovation.

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The center held its seventh annual conference, “The Future of Globalization: Trade, Finance, and Politics,” which was organized by Atif Mian, the John H. Laporte, Jr. Class of 1967 Professor in Public Policy and Finance; Stephen Redding, the Harold T. Shapiro ‘64 Professor in Economics and International Affairs; and Oleg Itskhoki, professor of economics and international affairs. The event convened more than 100 academic experts, students, policymakers, and journalists. A summary of the February 2018 conference, as well as videos and slides, are available on the center website. In partnership with the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and Princeton’s Center on Contemporary China, the center hosted a one-day conference on U.S.-China relations, finance, investment, politics, and social issues in New York City. Wei Xiong, TrumbullAdams Professor of Finance, presented his research on systemic risk in China. The center brought a number of distinguished speakers to campus, including Loretta Mester, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, who spoke on U.S. monetary policy; and Jay Clayton, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who discussed cryptocurrency regulation. The center also organized a panel on the Financial CHOICE Act, moderated by Alan S. Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. Faculty affiliated with the center are at the forefront of research on finance and policy. Mian, Amir Sufi from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Emil Verner Ph.D. ‘18, examine the link between the rise in inequality and increase in household debt

and the slow recovery after the Great Recession. Recent work by Motohiro Yogo, professor of economics, explores sources of risks in the insurance sector and suggests that better regulation of insurance markets could mitigate the transmission of these risks to the rest of the financial sector and the real economy. Adrien Matray, assistant professor of economics, found that innovation can help U.S. manufacturers escape import competition from China. David Schoenherr, assistant professor of economics, affirms political cronyism hurts the public interest and that a firm’s managers engage less in risky behavior under a receivership system for managing bankruptcies. •

Every September, the center organizes the popular three-and-a-half day “short course” for MPAs and MPPs, “Understanding Financial Markets for Policy Professionals.” The course features lectures by leading scholars and industry experts including but not limited to Noah Gottdiener, CEO of Duff & Phelps; David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group; and Philip Bennett, professor of journalism and public policy at Duke University.

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The center hosted two visiting faculty, two postdoctoral research associates, and three predoctoral research assistants in the 2017-18 academic year. The center also supports an active group of undergraduate and graduate student associates, providing funding for unpaid summer internships and participation in academic or policy conferences. https://jrc.princeton.edu

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Betsy Levy Paluck, professor of psychology and public aff airs and deputy director of the KahnemanTreisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy, is one of the 24 MacArthur Fellows for 2017. Commonly known as the “genius award,” the recognition came for Paluck’s work in “unraveling how social networks and norms infl uence our interactions with one another and identifying interventions that can change destructive behavior.”

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Nobel Laureate and center namesake Daniel Kahneman spoke to a packed house of students in October. Refl ecting on his last decade of consulting work since publishing “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” he reminded attendees that bias and noise are independent and that we are spending too much time emphasizing bias and not enough on noise. He suggested we look to algorithms to address this issue, as they are defi nitionally noise-free. During his visit to campus, he held two afternoon salons for faculty and graduate students to informally discuss their research in behavioral science areas and attended a dinner with center-affi liated faculty.

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In November, the center helped to sponsor a workshop conceived by Simon A. Levin, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and centeraffi liated faculty members Michael Oppenheimer, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Aff airs, and Elke U. Weber, professor of psychology and public aff airs and the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the

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Environment. The workshop brought together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars from six institutions across the United States and Europe to study how social norms aff ect individual and group behavior, how they scale up to macro levels, and how we might leverage them to address climate change. •

The Campus Behavioral Science Initiative, an innovative partnership the center launched with the Offi ce of the Executive Vice President in spring 2017, has resulted in dozens of potential research collaborations between senior administrators and behavioral scientists at the University. Results from a randomized controlled trial testing one of these projects — a behavioral intervention to improve staff management and work outcomes in 35 academic departments on campus — were recently presented and will be rolled into future human resource programming. Two others — involving bias in residential networks and the actor-agent model within employer-hosted health care plans — are currently in the data analysis phase with fi ndings to be shared in the coming year.

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The center continued its popular Behavioral Policy Speaker Series, which this year brought to campus academic researchers and in-the-fi eld practitioners with areas of expertise ranging from managing household fi nance to preventing recruitment into violent extremist groups, and from optimizing a municipal soda tax to evaluating rulings in the criminal justice system.

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The Liechtenstein Institute on SelfDetermination convened a number of colloquia in the 2017-18 academic year, including “China in Europe: Chinese Interests from Lisbon to Vladivostok” and “Crisis Cataloging, Evaluation, and Prioritization,” both held in August 2017 in Triesenberg, Principality of Liechtenstein; and “Multilateral Responses to Emerging Threats” in Vienna in November 2017. The Vienna meeting was held to consider appropriate steps for stabilization and possible anticipatory responses to long and short-term security challenges, which are currently aff ecting the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and its neighborhood. The Project on Gender in the Global Community co-sponsored a workshop with Watchlist on Children and Armed Confl ict held at the University in January 2018, focusing on priorities and agenda setting for the Children and Armed Confl ict Agenda in the United Nations Security Council for 2018. In April 2018, student fellows in the institute’s Project on Gender in the Global Community presented their yearlong research projects at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Aff airs. The project also co-sponsored a workshop, “Gender Inclusive Responses to Confl ict Related Sexual Violence,” in May 2018 at the University.

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The institute held a roundtable discussion on self-determination in February 2018. Participants were practitioners and academics from such disciplines as philosophy, politics, and international relations to anthropology and cultural studies.

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The institute hosted two lunch seminars focusing on refugees and migration. The fi rst seminar, “How Italy’s Humanitarian Corridors Have Created Pathways to Protection in Europe,” featured guest speaker Claire Higgins, senior research associate at the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law. The second seminar, “The Ethics of Return Migration and Education: Transnational Duties in the U.S.-Mexico Corridor,” featured Juan Espindola, assistant professor at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico City.

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The institute convened a colloquium, “Religion and Cyber,” in Rome in June 2018. The colloquium was convened in honor of the 11th anniversary of the institute’s Program on Religion, Diplomacy, and International Relations.

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Christina Davis, professor of politics and international affairs, and Tana Johnson, assistant professor at Duke University and a former Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) fellow, organized a conference on “Pressure Groups and Inter-Governmental Organizations” in October 2017.

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Nils Hägerdal, a former Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance fellow, and Melissa M. Lee, assistant professor of politics and international affairs, organized a conference on “Statehood and the International State System” in February 2018.

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Helen V. Milner, the B.C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs, and Edmund Malesky, professor of political science at Duke University, organized a conference in March 2018 in Vietnam on

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Marina Duque, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance fellow, organized a book workshop on “Status in International Politics” in May 2018.

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The center continues to fund the expansion of the Woodrow Wilson School’s Policy Task Forces to all Princeton students, giving the opportunity for powerful crosscultural experiences. During spring 2018, two Policy Task Forces were offered to undergraduate students; one was held at the University of Cape Town in South Africa on “Education Policy in South Africa,” and the other was in Milan, covering “Refugee and Migrant Policy in Europe.”

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Matthew Desmond, professor of sociology, launched The Eviction Lab. Drawing on 83 million eviction records, he and his team created the first ever national database of evictions. More than 68,000 original users have visited the website since it launched in April, which is around 1,500 people a day. This research was featured in The New York Times and on National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air” and has generated more than 100 news stories based on the data.

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Yu Xie, the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Sociology, founded the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China in partnership with the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies and the Office of Population Research. This was made possible with support from the family of former trustee Paul Wythes ‘55.

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Noreen Goldman, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Demography and Public Affairs, was elected vice president of the Population Association of America and named a 201819 visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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James Trussell, the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus, published an article with a former student and former postdoctoral student in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology showing that telemedicine abortion was increasing in Ireland and conferred positive benefits for women’s health, well-being, and autonomy. The paper was cited by the Irish Citizens’ Assembly in its recommendation to repeal Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion, which was approved by Irish voters on May 26 by a 2-1 margin.

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Douglas S. Massey, the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and colleague Jorge Durand from the University of Guadalajara, received the Bronislaw Malinowski Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology. The award was presented to them in recognition of their 30 years of work directing the Mexican Migration Project and their career of “efforts to understand and serve the needs of the world’s societies using the concepts and tools of social science.”

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The 2017-18 postdoctoral fellows were published in Asian Security, War on the Rocks, and International Security. Topics covered included U.S.-China relations, Chinese leadership history, One Belt One Road initiatives, regional security, and maritime disputes in the East and South China Seas.

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From 2017 to 2018, the program hosted the most lectures and speakers since its inception.

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The program hosted a workshop at the University of Maryland outside Washington, D.C., to review and critique the postdoctoral fellows’ book projects.

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The program has selected three outstanding fellows for the 2018-19 academic year: Wendy Leutert from the University of Pennsylvania, Tyler Jost from Harvard University, and Andrew Chubb from The University of Western Australia.

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The program will be relocating to Columbia University for the 2018-19 academic year.

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The center celebrated its 25th year of operation at the Woodrow Wilson School with a formal dinner and a daylong symposium featuring presentations on survey research conducted by Princeton faculty and staff.

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The center continued work on a research project funded by a grant of $383,891 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The purpose of the project is to find ways to reduce reporting errors in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Contingent Worker Supplement.

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The center designed and implemented a national online survey on the well-being of professional and aspiring musicians in partnership with the Music Industry Research Association and MusiCares. Additionally, the center conducted a survey on the well-being among alumni from Princeton Class of 1978 and seniors from the Class of 2018 and an online survey of 2,271 Princeton students on perceptions of fairness in the distribution of student aid and scholarships.

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The center coordinated a mail survey of 13,000 Florida residents for a study on the impact of fines for traffic violations and conducted an international online survey of more than 2,000 China scholars.

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The center completed the recruiting phase of the MDiary Study, an innovative smartphone-based study of teen relationships.

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The center organized and co-sponsored a public lecture on ballot name ordering and its impact on election outcomes by Jon Krosnick of Stanford University in February 2018.

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The center provided consultation on 17 faculty and postdoctoral research projects, 16 graduate student projects, 68 undergraduate student projects, and 26 surveys conducted by the University’s administrators.

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The center completed a total of 264,444 interviews for 2,236 web-based surveys and experiments.

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The center managed accounts for 460 users in Qualtrics, Princeton’s university-wide online tool for designing and managing web surveys.

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The center hosted a visiting student research collaborator, Valentin Pautonnier, from Sciences Po Grenoble, from March to June.

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The center participated in the University Administrative Fellows Program, an initiative of the Graduate School for fourth- and fifth-year graduate students. This year’s fellow was Federica Querin, a graduate student in sociology.

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The Program in Law and Public Affairs hosted seminars and workshops with distinguished legal scholars and program visiting fellows where works-in-progress were presented and discussed. The program also continued its series “Hotoff-the Press,” in which authors of recently published law-related books were invited to discuss their work.

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The program initiated a series of workshops focusing on themes in constitutional development, both domestically and comparatively; each featured informal presentations of papers by law scholars followed by a discussion.

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The Donald S. Bernstein ’75 Lecture was given by Harvard University Professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of the book “How Democracies Die.”

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The program continued to convene programs for students, including seminars at which Princeton’s LawEngaged Graduate Students presented their research. These included the “Law in the Public Service: Not Just for Lawyers,” which was a dinner series for policy students to engage in off-therecord conversations with distinguished

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law practitioners and academics; and the Arthur J. Liman Public Interest Fellowship workshop, at which the undergraduate recipients discussed their summer internship experiences with Princeton faculty, LAPA fellows, and other students. The program also facilitated the organization by the Law-Engaged Graduate Students of its first symposium, “Unintended: The Promises and Perils of Criminal Justice Reform,” at which 12 graduate student scholars from universities across the country presented papers and received feedback. Mike Lee, supervisor of government affairs for the new district attorney of Philadelphia, gave the keynote address. •

The program moved to a new suite of offices in Wallace Hall, enabling the program to strengthen and expand its vibrant resident scholarly community. In addition to its visiting fellows, the program welcomed a new postdoctoral scholar as well as Professors Stanley N. Katz and Peter Brooks, who have LAPA-based offices; and occasional visitors in residence, including law professors from Harvard University and Indiana University.

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Several faculty members published work or took on new leadership roles: Christopher F. Chyba, professor of astrophysical sciences and international aff airs, became cochair of a project at the American Academy of • Arts and Sciences, “Meeting the Challenges of the New Nuclear Age.”

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a conference co-sponsored with Princeton’s University Center for Human Values that looked at how professionals are challenged and respond to climate change. The program received funding from the Offi ce of the Provost to conduct a “China Environmental Initiative.”

Denise L. Mauzerall, professor of civil and environmental engineering and public and international aff airs, published a series of articles with the program’s doctoral students and others exploring the benefi ts of various energy strategies in China on air quality, health, and carbon dioxide emission reductions. These articles appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and other top journals.

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A number of the program’s Princeton Environmental Institute graduate students received awards, including the following: American Association for the Advancement of Science, which included two 2018 Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows; the William L. Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellowship from the American Geosciences Institute; and the NatureNet Fellowship to study biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia.

Michael Oppenheimer, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Aff airs and professor of geosciences and international aff airs, completed a book with co-authors to be published by the University of Chicago Press in early 2019. It is titled “Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientifi c Assessment for Environmental Policy.”

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Recent graduates of the Woodrow Wilson School’s doctoral program focused on the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy cluster secured positions at such organizations as ICF, an environmental consulting fi rm; the National Nuclear Security Administration Graduate Fellowship Program; Princeton’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Princeton’s Department of Geosciences; and University of California, Irvine. Some have taken on professorship positions at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, the School of International Aff airs and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign.

Twenty program seminars were held in the 201718 academic year, with more than 1,100 people attending throughout the year. The program sponsored two large-scale conferences: the annual Princeton Studies Food conference, “Ripe for the Picking,” which examined food waste and developing sustainable waste practices; and “Witnessing Professionals and Climate Change,”

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Senior researcher Bruce G. Blair played a leading role in informing the national policy debate, including within Congress, on the dangers from the existing nuclear weapons launch protocol and ways to revise this protocol to ensure that no president could initiate the use of nuclear weapons without apparent cause and legal justifi cation.

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The program brought together a group of leading independent technical and policy experts to develop a collective understanding of the weaknesses and counterproductive eff ects of U.S. ballistic missile defense policy and to outline potential improvements.

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Alexander Glaser, program co-director, along with Tamara Patton, a Woodrow Wilson School Ph.D. candidate, and Moritz Kütt, a postdoctoral researcher, developed a virtual reality system for simulating nuclear disarmament inspections and exercises. They successfully demonstrated the system to international diplomats and experts at the U.N. “Conference on Disarmament” in Geneva.

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The program received a MacArthur Foundation grant of $2.8 million for the project “Reducing Nuclear Risks,” which will focus on ending production and use of nuclear weapon-usable “fi ssile” materials, reforming U.S. nuclear policies and posture, and advancing nuclear verifi cation.

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The program helped organize and contributed material for the Woodrow Wilson School’s Bernstein Gallery exhibition “Shadows and Ashes: The Perils of Nuclear Weapons” and the related panel discussion “A Perpetual Menace: Nuclear Weapons Today, Tomorrow, Forever?” that included Amb. Elayne Whyte Gómez, president of the U.N. conference where the 2017 “Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons” was negotiated.

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The program marked the successful completion of 20 years of its “Project on Peace and Security in South Asia.” It was set up in 1997 to help inform public and policy debates about the risks of weapons and nuclear energy policies in the region.

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The Research Program in Development Studies hosted 19 seminars, all co-sponsored with the Center for Health and Wellbeing.

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Anne Case, director of the Research Program in Development Studies and the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Aff airs, Emeritus, was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine and awarded an honorary doctorate in public policy by the Pardee RAND Graduate School. In the past year, she has begun to serve on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Class III, Section 2 (economics) membership panel, and on the American Philosophical Society Class 3 membership committee. She continues to serve on the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council, the Committee on National Statistics, and the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.

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to serve on the High Level Expert Group on Social and Economic Progress, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and on the Technical Advisory Group of the International Comparison Program. •

Maria Micaela Sviatschi, instructor in economics and public aff airs, joined the program’s affi liated faculty, adding expertise in labor and development economics with a focus on human capital and crime.

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Anne Case and Angus S. Deaton received grant awards from the National Institutes on Aging to fund their research on “deaths of despair,” and have signed a contract to publish a book on deaths of despair and the future of capitalism with Princeton University Press.

Angus S. Deaton, senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School and Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Aff airs, Emeritus, continues

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The Research Program in Political Economy hosted its workshop series, featuring new theoretical and empirical approaches by top researchers in the politics and economics departments.

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The program hosted the research seminar series in political economy, a forum integrating graduate students in the politics and economics departments working in political economy.

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The program co-funded the “Warwick/Princeton/Utah Political Economy Conference,” held in Venice, Italy. The initiative, now in its sixth year, integrates top researchers in the field from the United States and Europe.

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The program provided graduate student support for data collection and field data.

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Our Students

Undergraduate

Enrolled Students in 2017-18

Graduate

Enrolled Students in 2017-18

Juniors: 125 Seniors: 115

MPAs: 145 MPPs: 16 Ph.D.s: 34

Graduate Policy Workshop Graduate Workshop Examined U.S. and Russia Interplay in the Middle East A fall 2017 graduate workshop assessed the state of play in the interaction between the United States and Russia in the Middle East. By the end of the workshop, the students developed and presented recommendations to U.S. State Department officials and House Foreign Affairs Committee members. The workshop was led by Daniel C. Kurtzer, lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School and former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel. The students made several policy recommendations, detailed in their final report, “Syria and Beyond: Managing Russian Ambitions in the Middle East.” Their

recommendations supported three main strategies: reasserting U.S. leadership and credibility by bolstering U.S. relations with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt; maintaining a military and diplomatic presence in Syria to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda; and challenging Russia to restrain Iran. “The staff we briefed were eager to engage and offered substantive feedback that shaped our final report,” said Andi Zhou MPA ’18. Zhou helped to structure the presentation that students gave to policymakers in Washington, D.C., in December 2017. He added, “It was incredibly rewarding to see policymakers embrace our effort so warmly.”

Amb. Daniel Kurtzer led graduate students through an assessment of the state of play in the interaction between the United States and Russia in the Middle East. Students then presented their policy recommendations to the U.S. State Department. (Photo courtesy of Andi Zhou MPA â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;18)

Undergraduate Policy Task Forces

Students in Amb. Ryan Crocker’s task force examined the Syrian crisis and presented policy recommendations at the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Sakha ’18)

Undergraduates Consider Future of Syria Under Guidance of Amb. Ryan Crocker The Syrian crisis was the focus of a fall 2017 undergraduate Policy Task Force. At the end of the course, students presented their policy recommendations at the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs in Washington, D.C. Based on months of research and meetings with key experts, the students’ detailed recommendations ranged from U.S. cooperation with Europe on measures to decrease Syria’s energy dependence on Russia to increasing U.S. support to nongovernmental organizations providing emergency food assistance to refugees. The workshop, which focused on Syria, was led by Amb. Ryan Crocker, a diplomat-in-residence and visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School.

“Taking a class with someone who has been appointed U.S. ambassador to six different challenging posts is a once-in-alifetime opportunity,” said Maximilian Molot ’19. “Ambassador Crocker has a wealth of knowledge and experience; his emphasis on the value of history in diplomatic decision-making has definitely led me to consider taking more history courses.” Until taking Crocker’s task force, Molot had been avoiding studying the Middle East in-depth because his academic focus is on Eastern Europe and Russia. “I quickly learned that regional policies are rarely just that and often are connected to other objectives outside of that region. It was about time to start learning,” Molot said. By the end of the task force, Molot and his peers not only had a stronger grasp on one of the most complex situations facing the international community today but also sharper skills needed in policymaking.

Task Force Students Seek Solutions to Mass Incarceration

the U.S. criminal justice system to be less punitive and offer rehabilitation.

Woodrow Wilson School juniors studying mass incarceration in the United States traveled to Washington, D.C., to present their policy findings and recommendations to Sen. Cory Booker in spring 2018.

Among their recommendations, the students urged policymakers to reduce some felony drug convictions to misdemeanors upon completion of a rehabilitative program and to offer businesses economic incentives to hire people who had been incarcerated.

The 10 students were participants in the Policy Task Force “Rethinking Criminal Justice: Policy Responses to Mass Incarceration,” which was led by Udi Ofer, a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School and deputy national political director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and director of the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice. Each student studied a different aspect of incarceration in the United States, which disproportionately affects minorities and other marginalized groups. They then collectively identified a key theme: the pressing need for

Samuel Parsons, one of the students who presented to Booker’s office, said “some of our strongest and bestreceived recommendations were those that called on Booker to solicit the collection of data…that will allow for broader, stronger research on the criminal justice system in the future.” Booker said his office is “reviewing the final report and thinking carefully about how to put these recommendations into action.”

Students in an undergraduate task force led by Udi Ofer, a visiting lecturer, studied mass incarceration in the United States. They presented recommendations to Sen. Cory Booker. (Photos courtesy of Maria Jerez ’19 and Udi Ofer)

Graduate Admissions Successful candidates to the Woodrow Wilson School graduate program demonstrate a commitment to public service, a diversity of thought and background, and an ability to learn what we teach. In making admission decisions, we consider a number of factors, weighing each according to the strengths of the individual applicant.

Master in Public

Affairs

The two-year MPA program offers a core curriculum allowing students to develop the analytical skills necessary for addressing complex public policy issues. The School enrolls individuals with a demonstrated commitment to public service through their volunteer interests, internships, and professional experiences.

Admitted in Spring 2018: 64 Male

51 Female

Where From

100

International

United States

Ethnicity of U.S. Admits Students of Color:

43%

FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION When applying to the Woodrow Wilson School, MPA students choose from one of four fields of concentration. The figures below reflect the fields chosen by those who were admitted to the program in 2018.

International Relations

International Development

Domestic Policy

Economics and Public Policy

24%

35%

17%

Grade Point Average 3.7-4.0

83%

3.4-3.6

14%

3.0-3.3

2.0-2.9

NA<2.0

GRE Verbal

GRE Quantitative

90%-99%

79%

90%-99%

80%-89%

14%

80%-89%

70%-79%

60%-69%

50%-59%

NA<49%

26% 23% 22% 14% 10% 5%

GRE Analytical Writing 6.0

5.0-5.5

55%

4.0-4.5

34%

3.0-3.5

NA<=2.5

Figures based on the 115 students admitted in spring 2018.

Master in Public

Policy

The Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one-year MPP program is designed for mid-career professionals who are rising leaders in international and domestic public policy. It is an opportunity for those embedded in public service for seven-plus years to expand their knowledge in relation to their chosen professional path.

Admitted in Spring 2018:

18 Male

9 Female

Where From

11 International

Ethnicity of U.S. Admits Students of Color:

16 United States

31%

FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION When applying to the Woodrow Wilson School, MPP students choose from one of four fields of concentration. The figures below reflect the fields chosen by those who were admitted to the program in 2018.

International Relations

International Development

48%

22%

Grade Point Average 3.7-4.0

26%

3.4-3.6

41%

3.0-3.3

15%

2.0-2.9

18%

NA<2.0

Domestic Policy

Economics and Public Policy

15%

GRE Verbal

GRE Quantitative

15%

GRE Analytical Writing

90%-99%

59%

90%-99%

11%

6.0

80%-89%

30%

80%-89%

18%

5.0-5.5

48%

70%-79%

15%

4.0-4.5

52%

60%-69%

3.0-3.5

50%-59%

22%

NA<=2.5

NA<49%

30%

Figures based on the 27 students admitted in spring 2018.

Ph.D. in Public

Affairs

The Doctor of Philosophy in Public Affairs is a five-year program in which students concentrate on one of two research areas: Security Studies; or Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy.

Admitted in Spring 2018:

7 Male

5 Female

Where From

International

United States

Ethnicity of U.S. Admits Students of Color:

13%

FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION When applying to the Woodrow Wilson School, Ph.D. students choose from one of two research clusters.

Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy

50%

Grade Point Average 3.7-4.0 3.4-3.6 3.0-3.3 2.0-2.9 NA<2.0

58% 17% 25% 0% 0%

Security Studies

50%

GRE Verbal

GRE Quantitative

GRE Analytical Writing

90%-99%

75%

90%-99%

25%

6.0

80%-89%

17%

80%-89%

33%

5.0-5.5

42%

70%-79%

17%

4.0-4.5

50%

60%-69%

17%

3.0-3.5

50%-59%

NA<=2.5

NA<49%

Figures based on the 12 students admitted in spring 2018.

Beyond the Classroom Public Affairs Lectures Learning is not limited to the formal curriculum. WWS students are fully engaged in learning about public policy outside the classroom. Students attend lectures by leading policymakers and practitioners, participate in extracurricular organizations, and conduct fieldwork around the globe. A highlight is the Leadership Through Mentorship Program, which brings in highlevel policy leaders and practitioners for two to three days at the Woodrow Wilson School. They attend classes, have meals with students, conduct office hours, and deliver lectures. Below are the 2017-18 guests. Maj. Gen. Charles Frank Bolden Jr. (USMC-Ret.) 12th Administrator of NASA (2009-2017); Former NASA Astronaut

Amb. William J. Burns

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (20112014); President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Prudence Bushnell

Former U.S. Ambassador to Kenya and Guatemala; CEO, Sage Associates

E.J. Dionne Jr.

Syndicated Columnist, The Washington Post; Commentator, NPR and MSNBC; Professor, Georgetown University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Thomas Downs

Former President of Amtrak; Former Director, Washington, D.C. Department of Transportation; Former Executive Director, Federal Transit Administration

MichĂ¨le Flournoy

Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense; Co-Founder and CEO, Center for a New American Security

David Frum

Senior Editor, The Atlantic; Contributor, CNN

Jeanne Lambrew

Former Deputy Assistant to President Obama for Health Policy; Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation

Gina McCarthy

Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Operating Advisor, Pegasus Capital Advisors

Amb. Michael McFaul

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia (20122014); Analyst, NBC News; Contributing Columnist, The Washington Post; Professor of Political Science, Director and Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Terrell McSweeny

Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

Evan Osnos

Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Ai-jen Poo

Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance; Co-Director, Caring Across Generations

Ian Rowe

Chief Executive Officer, Public Prep Network

Amb. David M. Satterfield

Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs

Michael Signer

Mayor, Charlottesville, Virginia

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Former President of Liberia (2006-2018); First Elected Female Head of State in Africa; 2011 Nobel Peace Prize

Charlie Sykes

Contributor, MSNBC; Host, “Indivisible” (WNYC)

Dr. Harold Varmus

1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Former Director, National Cancer Institute (2010-2015) and National Institutes of Health (1993-1999); Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine; Senior Associate, New York Genome Center

Policy Forum

Public Lectures

Lunch-Timers

Leadership Through Mentorship Visitors

Ernesto Zedillo

Former President of Mexico (1994-2000); Frederick Iseman ’74 Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; Professor in the Field of Political Science, Yale University

Student Life and Organizations One Day, Four Countries, 30 Years: Students Participate in Grand Strategy Simulation The Woodrow Wilson School’s Center for International Security Studies held its Grand Strategy Simulation in April. The activity brought together Princeton students from diverse backgrounds to partake in an exercise simulating the strategic jostling of the United States, Russia, China, and Turkey over three decades. The simulation required teamwork, strategic thinking, and compromise. The goal was to create a no-stakes environment in which students could experience some of the pressures and thought processes real policymakers undertake as they make decisions. Students were asked to execute a strategy based on their personal priorities and the amount of resources at their respective country’s disposal. They also had the opportunity to plan and perform diplomatic, military, and covert operations. Tom Koenig ’20 noted the simulation was “a great experience and a lot of fun,” and he felt the most interesting part of the exercise came when some of the countries’ long-term strategies were revealed. The simulation further aimed to help students understand the challenges leaders of foreign countries must confront, including countries whose policies the students are not often familiar with. 73

Students Give Back to Isles Youth Institute Throughout the 2017-18 academic year, graduate students continued the Woodrow Wilson School’s close service relationship with Isles Youth Institute, a nonprofit based in Trenton, New Jersey, which supports at-risk youth so they can complete their education and become self-reliant. Swetha Balachandran MPA ’18 and Alexander Brockwehl MPA ’18, co-chairs of the community service subcommittee of the Woodrow Wilson Action Committee, spearheaded the 10th annual service auction, “WWAC Gives Back.” The event raised more than $20,000 for Isles in December 2017. According to Brockwehl, the annual event brought together the Woo community in a fun, inclusive way that celebrated a shared commitment to public service and showcased the many talents and immense generosity of the faculty, staff, and students. Balachandran and Brockwehl also hosted a community service day at the start of the academic year to acquaint Woos with Isles. Events like these help busy students in the “Princeton bubble” connect with the spirit of public service, Balachandran said. More than 70 MPA, MPP, and Ph.D. students participated in the September service day, completing tasks such as painting, moving lumber, and cleaning.

SAOC Hosts 22nd Annual Symposium Students and Alumni of Color (SAOC), a Woodrow Wilson School graduate student-led organization, held its 22nd annual symposium in April 2018. The mission of SAOC is to unite students, alumni, and faculty to promote diversity, build relationships, and support the social and political development of communities of color at Princeton University. This year’s symposium, “What Wall?: Overcoming Real and Perceived Barriers,” focused on historical examples of movements to promote equality and strategies to build and lead diverse coalitions. The symposium enabled more than 160 students, alumni, newly admitted students, and panelists to engage in meaningful discussions about diversity and inclusion. The symposium also featured two new components: an alumni panel focusing on the intersection of gender and racial identity in the workplace and a closing plenary conversation with lawyer and activist Chaumtoli Huq. Huq motivated the audience to remain committed to solidarity in social movements, which she defined as “making space for everyone’s pain.”

Diversity and Inclusion Efforts This past year, graduate students participated in a robust diversity and inclusion program led by Laura De Olden, associate director of graduate student life and diversity initiatives. Below is a list of highlights of the program. • Students, faculty, and staff participated in a series of workshops and events covering issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Optional workshops for students built upon these themes. • The School provided support and mentoring for students seeking to address diversity and inclusion issues. This included organizing weekly diversity and inclusion dinners and helping with the annual Student and Alumni of Color Symposium. • A private Facebook page was created to facilitate open communication and diversity awareness. All graduate students were invited to join.

Extracurricular

Below are the School’s officially recognized student organizations.

Undergraduate The Undergraduate Student Advisory Committee

Graduate Gender and Policy Network Graduate Consulting Group Journal of Public and International Affairs Students and Alumni of Color Woodrow Wilson Action Committee Woodrow Wilson Political Network

• The School facilitated an internal network to improve collaboration with other diversity programs on campus and leverage University resources. • In 2018, the faculty voted to establish a Diversity and Inclusion Standing Committee comprised of faculty, student representatives, and staff to monitor the School’s focus on diversity and inclusion efforts and to make recommendations to the dean for improvement. • A diversity and inclusion visiting research scholar was hired in July 2018 to better incorporate issues of diversity and inclusion in public policy in the curriculum. The School plans to build upon these efforts in the next academic year, creating a safe and open space for students, faculty, and staff to explore issues related to diversity and inclusion.

Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative Ten students at Princeton University have been selected to the 2018 cohort of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI), which is managed by the Woodrow Wilson School. Established in 2006, SINSI is designed to encourage, support, and prepare the nation’s top students to pursue careers in the U.S. federal government, in both international and domestic agencies. Through rigorous academic training integrated with work experience, the goal of the highly competitive scholarship program is to provide students with the language and workplace skills needed to succeed in the public policy arena. The core element of the graduate program is a two-year SINSI-supported fellowship with an executive branch department or agency, usually placed between the first and second year of the MPA program. Applicants are either Princeton University seniors or students enrolled in the first year of the Woodrow Wilson School’s MPA program.

Graduate Scholars:

Interns:

Dina Chotrani ’18 is a Woodrow Wilson School concentrator focusing on global health and humanitarian assistance. She is also a candidate for certificates in Global Health and Health Policy, History and the Practice of Diplomacy, and Entrepreneurship.

Michael Asparrin ’19 is a Woodrow Wilson School concentrator focusing on conflict and cooperation, and is pursuing certificates in History and the Practice of Diplomacy and Spanish Language and Culture. He is particularly interested in the interaction that government, nonprofit organizations, and local communities have in creating and implementing significant and lasting change.

Caroline Jones ’18 is a senior in the Woodrow Wilson School focusing on conflict and cooperation and is pursuing certificates in Latin American Studies and the History and Practice of Diplomacy. John L. “Newby” Parton ’18 is a Woodrow Wilson School concentrator and certificate candidate in Values and Public Life and Urban Studies. Parton intends to pursue a joint MPA/J.D. and career in civil rights law. Caitlin Quinn ’18 is a Woodrow Wilson School concentrator pursuing certificates in Latin American Studies and Portuguese. She is primarily interested in U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy.

Mikaela Gerwin ’19, a history concentrator pursuing a certificate in Global Health and Health Policy, is the Class of 2018 Dean’s Scholar in the Nation’s Service. Prior to Princeton, Gerwin spent a gap year teaching English and working on community health programs in Urubamba, Peru, through a Princeton Bridge Year Fellowship. Julia Herrle ’19 is a junior in the Woodrow Wilson School pursuing certificates in Environmental Studies and in Values and Public Life. Herrle is passionate about improving global food security through sustainable agricultural development and emergency food assistance.

Tylor-Maria Johnson ’19 is a sociology concentrator and a certificate candidate in African American Studies and American Studies. She is also a member of the Scholars Institute Fellows Program. Aaron Xiao Sobel ’19 is a junior in the Woodrow Wilson School pursuing certificates in History and the Practice of Diplomacy and Values and Public Life. Sobel has spent most of his life in Southeast Asia, where he developed his academic interests in development and legal institutions. Sophie Troyka ’19 is a junior in the Woodrow Wilson School and a certificate candidate in Environmental Studies. Troyka, the Class of 2018 Frederick P. Hitz ’61 Scholar, is focused on sustainable agriculture and the nexus of meat consumption, animal welfare, human health, and the environment.

Summer Programs Students from Native American Tribes in New Mexico Attend Summer Policy Academy at Woodrow Wilson School Seventeen high school and college students from a diverse group of indigenous tribes in New Mexico arrived at Princeton in June 2018 for a weeklong program focusing on contemporary challenges and federal policies affecting Native American communities. This marks the 11th annual Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute’s Summer Policy Academy (SPA), hosted at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. Students were selected to participate in the SPA after being nominated by their teachers, community leaders, business professionals, and tribal leaders. Through discussions, case studies, and presentations by Native leaders and academics, participants focus on issues related to education, language, environment, and health. Co-founder and co-director of the SPA, Regis Pecos ’77 said “the vision and purpose of this program is to provide young Natives with the opportunity to learn about the history and the policies and laws that have affected their communities.” Many of the issues and challenges the students learn about are not part of the public school education system, Pecos said.

College Students Examine Real-World Policy Issues at the Junior Summer Institute

students to find the right fit and explore their full academic potential. Students learn the value of using economic models and statistical analysis to inform their research for the domestic and international policy workshops, which are a highlight of the program. In these workshops, students examine a “real life” policy issue. Two were offered this year.

Since 1985, the Wilson School has hosted the Public Policy & International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute (JSI), a seven-week intensive summer institute for rising college seniors. This year’s program was held in summer 2018. Aiming to prepare undergraduate students for graduate study and careers in public policy and international affairs, JSI comprises a rigorous curriculum focused on writing, critical thinking, public speaking, and quantitative reasoning skills. It requires coursework in economics and statistics, and policy workshops in international and domestic policy issues. The 2018 JSI cohort consisted of 31 students, representing 30 colleges and universities in the United States and 26 majors. The students hailed from 18 states as well as Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Mexico, and Senegal. Each arrived to Princeton with a unique academic background and a desire to cultivate and refine their skills and interests in public policy. This year, the students experienced a newly revised curriculum, which places greater emphasis on applied empirical methods than in years prior. JSI offers two tracks for quantitative courses: introduction/intermediate and advanced tracks for both statistics and economics. This enables

The domestic policy workshop focused on health policy and the social determinants of health. It was taught by Daniel Meuse, deputy director of the State Health Reform Assistance Network at the Woodrow Wilson School. The international policy workshop focused on the Trump administration’s 2017 National Security Strategy and its implications for U.S. foreign relations. It was taught by Amb. James Gadsden, a former diplomat and ambassador to Iceland. Both workshops culminated in a group report and presentation, in which students presented their policy analyses to a panel of experts and practitioners, who then critiqued their work. This year, the students traveled to Washington, D.C., and had meetings at the State Department, Capitol Hill, the Washington Office on Latin America, and the Center for New American Security. They also had networking opportunities with JSI alumni and policy practitioners and attended a Graduate School Exposition.

Internships

Undergraduates *22 Funded by WWS

First-Year MPAs *47 Funded by WWS

Public Sector: 5 Nonprofit Sector: 6 Private Sector: 56

Public Sector: 20 Nonprofit Sector: 40 Private Sector: 5

Career Destinations of 2018 graduates (As of July 16, 2018)

Undergraduates

115 MPAs

75 MPPs

Still Seeking

14%

Fellowships/Internships

18%

Graduate Study

10%

87% Domestically Focused

Nonprofit Sector

13% Internationally Focused

Private Sector

49%

Public Sector

Still Seeking

33%

Fellowships/Internships

Graduate Study

Nonprofit Sector

21%

Private Sector

FOCUS OF THOSE WITH JOBS:

Public Sector

27%

Still Seeking

13%

FOCUS OF THOSE WITH JOBS:

71% Domestically Focused 27% Internationally Focused 2% Internationally and Domestically Focused

FOCUS OF THOSE WITH JOBS:

Fellowships/Internships

36% Domestically Focused

Graduate Study

57% Internationally Focused

Nonprofit Sector

7% Internationally and Domestically Focused

Private Sector Public Sector

12% 63%

Special

Projects

Legacy of Nobel Laureate Sir W. Arthur Lewis Commemorated at Robertson Hall A reception and video tribute in Robertson Hall in April commemorated the legacy of former Woodrow Wilson School Professor Sir W. Arthur Lewis and the renaming of the building’s main auditorium in his honor. Previously, the space in Robertson Hall, which is home to the Woodrow Wilson School, was named for University President Emeritus Harold W. Dodds, whose name now graces the building’s atrium. Throughout the two-hour reception, a 10-minute video tribute documenting Lewis’ life and scholarship played on a continuous loop in the newly named auditorium. The event drew more than 200 people from the University and the local community. Several members of Lewis’ family, including his daughters Barbara Virgil and Elizabeth Channon and his granddaughter Samantha Virgil, attended. An economist, Lewis (1915-1991) served on Princeton’s faculty from 1963 to 1983 and was the University’s first black full professor. Lewis received the 1979 Nobel Prize in economic sciences and remained associated with the University in emeritus status until his death in 1991. He remains the only black individual to receive a Nobel Prize in the science subjects.

Lewis’ Nobel Prize recognized his pioneering research into economic development, with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries. Originally from the West Indian island of Saint Lucia, Lewis was knighted in 1963. Interviewees in the video reflect on his humble background and notable achievements. Those featured include Robert Tignor, biographer of Lewis and Princeton’s Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Emeritus; Sir Angus Deaton, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economic sciences and Princeton’s Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus; and Cecilia Elena Rouse, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School and the Lawrence and Shirley Katzman and Lewis and Anna Ernst Professor in the Economics of Education. The video can be viewed on the Woodrow Wilson School website and YouTube channel; to date nearly 7,000 people have watched the tribute online, and it has been shown to more than 850 individuals at various campus events. At the reception, Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber said, “As a Nobel Prize-winning authority on economic growth and one of the founders of development economics, Sir Arthur Lewis is an inspiring choice to grace the most prominent lecture hall in the Woodrow Wilson School.” Eisgruber noted how the renaming of the space aligns with the University’s ongoing priority to recognize and celebrate diversity across campus.

Defending Democracy: Princeton Conference to Address Civil, Military Responses in an Age of Disinformation

a panel, called the event “our exploration of dystopia,” and Ignatius called it the “Davos of disinformation.”

More than 200 people attended a daylong conference, “Defending Democracy: Civil and Military Responses to Weaponized Information,” in April 2018. The forum, held on Princeton’s campus, examined disinformation and the widespread digital dispersion of propaganda.

During the conference, speakers discussed Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential campaigns; the theft and leak of emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee; paid social media users or “trolls” spreading controversies and conspiracies; and electronic ads and accounts that amplify divisive social issues like gun rights, LGBT matters, race, and immigration.

The event was organized by the Woodrow Wilson School, in cooperation with the Princeton Alumni Association. It was the Fourth Annual Veteran’s Summit, previously hosted by Yale University and the U.S. Military Academy, and co-sponsors included Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Princeton Veterans Alumni Association. The first two panels defined the issue: What is the weaponization of information and why is this a threat to the United States? The third panel considered defense: How can we defend America’s democracy from attacks rendered through disinformation, propaganda, and other digital information interference? In the final panel, the focus turned toward deterrence: What measures can the United States take to discourage our adversaries from spreading propaganda in the hopes of sowing unrest? Panelists represented military, computer science, legal, policy, and social science expertise. Keynote speakers bookended the day with opening remarks by David Ignatius of The Washington Post and closing address by Gen. Michael V. Hayden. Mara Liasson, national political correspondent for National Public Radio, who moderated

Clint Watts, a Robert A. Fox Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Program on the Middle East, said Americans use social media to find happiness and organize their world, only to come away miserable. The Russians knew that older Americans are more likely to vote, but were less likely to be sophisticated enough to spot a scam on Facebook. “We don’t like to admit that our number one enemy is us,” Watts said. Panelists argued these attacks were targeted at undermining our very way of life, trying to destroy national unity by using strengths, such as a free press and an open society, to turn Americans against each other. Experts at the event called for national and corporate action to combat disinformation on social media. The conference began the day before with a small private meeting organized by the School’s Center for Information and Technology Policy. This meeting brought together industry and public sector stakeholders along with academic scholars from

Princeton and beyond. There were two in-depth roundtable discussions around propaganda and its digital dispersion. The first discussion focused on defining the scope of academic research around this topic, and the second roundtable reflected on the respective roles of the industry and public sector in response to threats from disinformation.

This was followed by a dinner that included all the conference speakers and Princeton faculty, administrators, students, and alumni. Vint Cerf, vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google and one of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;fathers of the internet,â&#x20AC;? delivered a talk that set the stage of the subsequent conference.

Reimagining Robertson Robertson Hall, the main building of the Woodrow Wilson School, was built in 1965 as a result of a gift by Charles Robertson ’26 and Marie Robertson. Designed by renowned architect Minoru Yamasaki, the building is an architectural icon on campus.

Lasting approximately 18 to 24 months, the scope of the project will include the first, second, third, and fourth floors, as well as portions of the lower level, Arthur Lewis Auditorium, and possibly Shultz Dining Room — nearly 48,000 square feet in total.

In 2015, the Woodrow Wilson School underwent a comprehensive strategic planning process that identified key goals and objectives for the School’s future, including: more functional and efficient environments for teaching and research, increased opportunities for collaboration, and a stronger sense of community within the School.

Upon completion of the Reimagining Robertson project, the newly redesigned space will provide a highly collaborative academic and professional environment that respects the building’s unique architectural heritage while meeting the 21st century needs of its faculty, staff, and students. The redesign will produce a sustainable, comfortable, and versatile space for the flagship of the Woodrow Wilson School.

To help achieve these goals, a major renovation of Robertson Hall will commence in January 2019. This past year was spent working with the KPMB — a Toronto-based architecture firm that also designed the two buildings at 20 Washington Road — on plans for the redesign.

The redesign and renovation of Robertson Hall will comprise the final chapter of the overhaul of physical spaces that are home to the Woodrow Wilson School’s classrooms, centers, programs, and faculty and administrative offices. Earlier projects included:

Much of the year also was focused on orchestrating a very complex move of more than 150 people, four research centers, and student study and lounge spaces.

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Renovation of the third floor of Wallace Hall for the Program in Law and Public Affairs (completed summer 2017)

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Completion by the University of the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building and the Louis A. Simpson International Building at 20 Washington Road — facilities expressly designed and built for Princeton’s economics department and international initiatives, as well as the Center for Health and Wellbeing, the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance, the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy, and the Research Program in Development Studies (completed late 2016)

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Makeover of 221 Nassau Street, home of the Program on Science and Global Security (completed fall 2017)

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Renovation of Bendheim Hall, which houses the Center for International Security Studies, Empirical Studies of Conflict, Innovations for Successful Societies, and the Liechtenstein Institute for Self-Determination (completed early 2018)

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Renovation of the second floor of Corwin Hall (the wing adjacent to Bendheim and Fisher) for the new home of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (completed summer 2018)

The redesign and renovation has an expected completion date of August 2020. In the interim, the majority of Robertson Hallbased faculty and staff will move to temporary office spaces in Green Hall beginning in late December 2018.

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