NYU’s PhD in Politics offers deep research opportunities in political theory, comparative politics, international relations, and quantitative methods. Students explore power, governance, democracy, and ideology across historical and global contexts. The program supports fieldwork, statistical analysis, and theoretical modeling to analyze political behavior and institutional design. Graduates go on to lead in academia, public policy, and global consultancy.
Analyzing how authoritarian regimes manufacture legitimacy through manipulated democratic elections and media narratives
Comparative study of constitutional amendments in emerging democracies during post-conflict transitions
Evaluating the role of social media in shaping populist discourse and electoral polarization
Designing a game-theoretic model of political cooperation under conditions of extreme institutional mistrust
Assessing the long-term impacts of colonial bureaucracies on modern administrative state formation in Africa
How climate-related disasters reshape state–citizen relations and political accountability in island nations
Tracing ideological realignment among working-class voters in Western democracies since the 2008 recession
Mapping protest diffusion across authoritarian states using event datasets and spatial regression models
Legal pluralism and judicial independence in hybrid regimes: Case study of Southeast Asia
Theoretical justification for global taxation schemes in cosmopolitan political theory
The politics of data collection: Censuses, representation, and minority invisibility
Political theory of reparations: Historical responsibility and intergenerational moral obligations
Securitization of health crises: Political narratives and emergency powers during pandemics
Digital authoritarianism: Governance models based on surveillance, social credit, and data control
Partisan gerrymandering and minority vote dilution: Evidence from redistricting algorithms
Nationalism vs. supranational identity in the EU: Implications for post-Brexit integration
Designing experimental interventions to increase civic trust in public institutions
Ethical dimensions of refugee relocation policies in global north–south negotiations
Theorizing political violence in decolonial revolutions: A critical Marxist–Fanonian synthesis
Understanding democratic backsliding through elite capture and clientelistic party systems
Shape political thought and governance research through NYU’s Politics PhD.
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