Ira Katznelson

Ira Katznelson ( born July 3, 1944) is an American political scientist and historian. He is best known for research publications on the liberal state, inequality and social institutions primarily the United States.

Life and work

Katznelson studied history at Columbia University, and his Bachelor of Arts from 1966. His Dr. phil. he acquired in 1969 from the University of Cambridge in the UK. In the same year he was one of the founders of the scientific journal Politics and Society.

Katznelson taught at Columbia University from 1969 to 1974, at the University of Chicago from 1974 until 1983. Further 11 years until 1994 he was a professor at New York University The New School held. He was from 1983 to 1989 dean of his department. In 1994, Katznelson returned to Columbia University. There he occupied the " Ruggles Professor " of political science and history.

Katznelson from 2005 to 2006 Chairman of the American Political Science Association (APSA ). Previously, he was from 1992 to 1993 in charge of the APSA section " Politics and History" and the 1997-1998 " Social Science History Association ." As a researcher, he was appointed as a Guggenheim Fellow and elected in 2000 as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society in 2004.

Writings (selection )

  • Black Men, White Cities; Race, Politics, And Migration In The United States, 1900-30 and Britain, 1948-68. 1973rd Oxford University Press.
  • City Trenches: Urban Politics And The Patterning Of Class In The United States. In 1981. Pantheon Books.
  • Schooling For All: Class, Race, And The Decline Of The Democratic Ideal. 1985th Basic Books. ( written with Margaret Weir ).
  • Working - Class Formation: Nineteenth - Century Patterns in Western Europe And The United States. In 1986. Princeton University Press. ( published jointly with Aristide Zolberg ).
  • Marxism And The City. 1992nd Oxford University Press.
  • Paths Of Emancipation: Jews, States, And Citizenship. In 1995. Princeton University Press. (edited with Pierre Birnbaum ).
  • Liberalism 's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik. In 1996. Princeton University Press.
  • Shaped By War And Trade: International Influences on American Political Development. , 2002. Princeton University Press. ( published jointly with Martin Shefter ).
  • Political Science: The State of the Discipline. , 2002. W. W. Norton. (published jointly with Helen Milner ).
  • Desolation And Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, And The Holocaust. 2003rd Columbia University Press.
  • When Affirmative Action What White: An Untold History Of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. , 2005. W. W. Norton.
  • Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection in between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism. 2005th Russell Sage Foundation. (together with Barry Weingast ).
  • The Politics of Power: A Critical Introduction to American Government, 6th ed, 2006 ( jointly with Mark Kesselman and Alan Draper ). . ISBN 978-0-15-570735-1
  • Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. , 2013.

Awards

Katz Nelson's book Liberalism 's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik 1996 received the Michael Harrington Prize of the APSA. Desolation and Enlightenment got the 2003 " David and Elaine Spitz Award of the Conference of Political Thought" and the " David Easton Award" from the APSA Foundation. In 2014 he was awarded the Bancroft Prize for Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time.

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