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Innovations for Successful Societies (ISS) is a research program at Princeton University. ISS investigates government efforts to overcome strategic problems and development traps, particularly in developing countries. ISS is a joint program of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice.

History
ISS was formed on a pilot basis in 2006 as Institutions for Fragile States. It became a fully-functional research program in 2007.

Research
ISS publishes case studies and oral histories about public sector reforms. To date, ISS has published more than 100 case studies of reform efforts and conducted more than 2,000 in-country interviews with local government officials, journalists, activists, and experts. About one fifth of these interviews are recorded, transcribed and published as part of the group's Oral History Project.

The group's research has been featured by Chris Blattman, Slate , Foreign Policy's "Democracy Lab," and the Tony Blair African Governance Initiative.