Etienne Gagnon is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Politics. He studies the politics of population decline, specifically how low fertility rates affect policy preferences, political representation, and localism as a political ideology. He works on these topics in the Japanese context and other advanced democracies.
 

Prior to coming to Princeton, he obtained a B.Sc in Political Science from the University of Montreal, an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University, and an M.A.S in Interdisciplinary Information Science from the University of Tokyo.  His perspective is informed by 4 years of living in Japan.