International Advisory Council /
Jennifer Widner
Jennifer Widner is Professor of Politics and International Affairs and Director of Innovations for Successful Societies, a Woodrow Wilson School research program on improving government performance. Before joining Princeton, she taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan. Her current research focuses on the political economy of institutional reform, government accountability and service delivery. She also remains interested in constitution writing, constitutional design and fair dealing—topics of earlier research. She is the author of Building the Rule of Law (W. W. Norton), a study of courts and law in Africa, and she has published articles on a variety of topics in Democratization, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Development Studies, The William & Mary Law Review, Daedalus, the American Journal of International Law and other publications. She is currently completing work on a book about making government work in challenging settings, drawing on experiences in Africa, Asia and parts of Latin America.
Jennifer received her PhD from Yale University.
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