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Blair, Douglas
- Douglas Blair
- Emeritus
- Office: Hickman Hall - 401
- Phone: 848-807-5248
- Office Hours:
By Appointment
- Specialties:
Social Choice Theory and Formal Models of Political Institutions and Behavior
- Bio:
B.A. from Swarthmore College and Ph.D. from Yale University
He taught previously at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2003 to 2006 Blair served as Executive Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He served earlier as Dean of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Chair of the Department of Economics, and Director of the Bureau of Economic Research. - Publications:
- "Impossibility Theorems Without Collective Rationality," Journal of Economic Theory, 1976 (with G. Bordes, J. Kelly, and K. Suzumura)
- "Electoral College Reform and the Distribution of Voting Power," Public Choice, 1979
- "On the Ubiquity of Strategic Voting Opportunities," International Economic Review, 1981
- "Acyclic Collective Choice Rules," Econometrica, 1982 (with R. Pollak)
- "Labor Union Objectives and Collective Bargaining," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1984 (with D. Crawford)
- "The Primary Goods Indexation Problem in Rawls's Theory of Justice," Theory and Decision, 1988
- "Unbundling the Voting Rights and Profit Claims of Common Shares," Journal of Political Economy, 1989 (with J. Gerard and D. Golbe); and "Subjective Evaluations of n Person Games," Journal of Economic Theory, 1990 (with R. McLean)
- Research:
Research interests include social choice theory and formal models of political institutions and behavior.
Bronner, Stephen Eric
- Stephen Bronner
- Emeritus
- Phone: 646-552-0214
- Specialties:
Critical Theory, Human Rights, Political Theory
- Bio:
Professor Stephen Eric Bronner is a noted political theorist and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
Currently, he is Director of Global Relations at the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution, and Human Rights at Rutgers University, and member of Executive Committee of the UNESCO Chair for Genocide Prevention. Professor Bronner is the Executive Chair of US Academics for Peace and an advisor to Conscience International. His activities in civic diplomacy led him to visit Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Sudan, and Darfur. Many of his experiences are discussed in works dealing with internal relations like Blood in the Sand (2005) and Peace out of Reach (2007). Professor Bronner was the recipient of the MEPeace Award by the Network for Middle Eastern Politics in 2011.
Along with various teaching awards, the Bronner received the Michael A. Harrington Prize for Moments of Decision (1991) and Honorable Mention for the David Easton Prize, which honored the best work of political theory of the last five years, for Reclaiming the Enlightenment (2004).
A prolific writer, Professor Bronner has published over 25 books and 200 journal articles, and his work has been translated in more than a dozen languages. He received the Charles McCoy Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Political Science Association in 2005.
- Teaching:
Recent Undergraduate Courses:
Marx and Marxist Theory
The Politics of Bigotry
Politics & Imperialism
Critics of Modernity
Special Topics: Nazi Germany
Politics, Literature and the Arts
Recent Graduate Courses:
Critical Theory & Society
The Idealist Tradition: German Idealism
Politics & Existentialism
Contemporary Political Theory
- Publications:
Professor Bronner is a prolific writer. Some of his most recent publications include: The Bigot: Why Prejudice Persists (Forthcoming July 2014, Yale University Press), Modernism at the Barricade: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia (Columbia University Press, 2012), Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011), Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement (Columbia University Press, 2006) and Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy (The University Press of Kentucky, 2005). The writings of Professor Bronner have been translated into more than a half dozen languages.
A former Chair of the Caucus for a New Political Science, he edited the book series titled Interventions for Westview Press and he is now editing another series, Polemics, for Rowman & Littlefield.
Professor Bronner is the senior editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture and he serves on the editorial board of five journals, both here and in Europe.
His articles have appeared in Political Theory, New Politics, Social Research, Telos, along with various other journals. Concerned with the relation between politics and culture, Professor Bronner has authored the novel, A Beggar's Tales (1978).
Professor Bronner has edited Planetary Politics: Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society (2005), The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg (2nd Edition: 1993), and Socialism in History: Political Essays of Henry Patcher (1984), and he is the co-editor of Vienna: The World of Yesterday 1889-1914 (1997), Passion and Rebellion: The Expressionist Heritage (2nd Edition, 1988), and Critical Theory and Society (1989). Winner of the Michael Harrington Award for Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism (1992), his other books include: Leon Blum: A Popular Biography (1986); Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary for Our Times (3rd Printing: 1997); Camus: Portrait of a Moralist (1999); Ideas in Action: Political Tradition in the Twentieth Century (1999); A Rumor About the Jews: Reflections on Anti-Semitism and the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (2000); Socialism Unbound (2nd Edition, 2001). Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times and of Critical Theory and Its Theorists, in its second edition, will appear in 2002. - Research:
Professor Bronner's interests range from the ideologies of mass movements to existentialism, politics and culture, philosophical idealism, modern political history and critical theory.
Carroll, Susan
- Susan J. Carroll
- Emerita
- Office: Eagleton Institute of Politics - 3rd Fl.
- Phone: 848-932-8364
- Click for Web Site
- Office Hours:
By Appointment
- Specialties:
Women and Politics, American Politics
- Bio:
Ph.D., M.A., Indiana University, Political Science
B.A., Miami University (Ohio), HistoryRead about Professor Carroll's outreach activities here: http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/susan-j-carroll
- Publications:
Books
- More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures, with Kira Sanbonmatsu (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
- Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics, co-editor with Richard L. Fox (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, First Edition, 2006; Second Edition 2010; Third Edition 2014).
- Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions, editor (Oxford University Press, 2003).
- The Impact of Women in Public Office, editor (Indiana University Press, 2001).
- Women as Candidates in American Politics (Indiana University Press, First Edition, 1985; Second Edition, 1994).
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- “Voting Choices: How and Why the Gender Gap Matters,” in Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics, edited by Susan J. Carroll and Richard Fox (New York: Cambridge University Press, Third Edition, 2014).
- “Cracking the ‘Highest, Hardest Glass Ceiling': Women as Presidential and Vice-presidential Contenders,” in Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics, edited by Susan J. Carroll and Richard Fox (New York: Cambridge University Press, Third Edition, 2014 (with Kelly Dittmar).
- "Introduction: Celebrating 25 Years of the Women and Politics Program at Rutgers University," Politics & Gender 9:4 (2013) as part of a Critical Perspectives section I edited entitled "Crossing Borders, Transforming Knowledge."
- "Preparedness Meets Opportunity: A Case Study of Women's Representation in the New Jersy Legislature," in Breaking Male Dominance in Old Democracies, edited by Drude Dahlerup and Monique Leyenaar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)(with Kelly Dittmar).
- "Entering the Mayor's Office: Women's Decisions to Run for Municipal Office," in Women in Executive Office: Pathways and Performance, edited by Melody Rose (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2012) (with Kira Sanbonmatsu)
- “Reflections on Gender and Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign: The Good, the Bad, and the Misogynic,” Politics & Gender 5:1 (2009): 1-20.
- “Commentary on Emmy E. Werner’s 1968 Article, ‘Women in the State Legislatures,’” Political Research Quarterly 61:1 (2008): 25-28.
- “Committee Assignments: Discrimination or Choice?” in Legislative Women: Getting Elected, Getting Ahead, edited by Beth Reingold (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008).
- “Security Moms and Presidential Politics: Women Voters in the 2004 Election,” in The Gender Gap: Voting and the Sexes, edited by Lois Duke Whitaker (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008).
- “‘Far from Ideal’: The Gender Politics of Political Science,” American Political Science Review 100:4 (2006): 507-513 (with Sue Tolleson-Rinehart).
- “Moms Who Swing, or Why the Promise of the Gender Gap Remains Unfulfilled,” Politics & Gender 2:3 (2006): 364-376.
- “Are Women Legislators Accountable to Women? The Complementary Roles of Feminist Identity and Women’s Organizations,” in Gender and Social Capital, edited by Brenda O’Neill and Elisabeth Gidengil (New York: Routledge, 2006).
- “‘She Brought Only a Skirt:’ Gender Bias in Newspaper Coverage of Elizabeth Dole’s Campaign for the Republican Nomination,” Political Communication, 22:3 (2005): 315-335 (with Caroline Heldman and Stephanie Olson).
- “Reflections on Activism and Social Change for Scholars of Women and Politics,” Politics & Gender 1:2 (2005): 325-335.
- “Increasing Diversity or More of the Same? Term Limits and the Representation of Women, Minorities, and Minority Women in State Legislatures,” National Political Science Review 10 (2005): 71-84 (with Krista Jenkins).
- “Have Women State Legislators in the United States Become More Conservative? A Comparison of State Legislators in 2001 and 1988,” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal 27:2 (Spring/Summer 2003): 128-139.
- “Representing Women: Congresswomen’s Perceptions of Their Representational Roles,” in Women Transforming Congress, edited by Cindy Simon Rosenthal (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003).
- “Unrealized Opportunity? Term Limits and the Representation of Women in State Legislatures,” Women & Politics 23:4 (2001): 1-30 (with Krista Jenkins).
- “Do Term Limits Help Women Get Elected?” Social Science Quarterly 82 (March 2001): 197-201 (with Krista Jenkins).
- "Welfare Reform in the 104th Congress: Institutional Position and the Role of Women,” in Women and Welfare: Theory and Practice in the United States and Europe, edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Ulrike Liebert (Rutgers University Press, 2001) (with Kathleen J. Casey).
- "Representing Women: Women State Legislators as Agents of Policy-related Change," in The Impact of Women in Public Office, edited by Susan J. Carroll (Indiana University Press, 2001).
- “The Dis-Empowerment of the Gender Gap: Soccer Moms and the 1996 Elections,” PS: Political Science & Politics 32 (March 1999): 7-11.
- "Media Coverage of Women in the 103rd Congress," in Women, Media, and Politics, edited by Pippa Norris (Oxford University Press, 1997) (with Ronnee Schreiber).
- "The Politics of Difference: Women Public Officials as Agents of Change," Stanford Law and Policy Review, 5 (Spring 1994): 11-20.
- "Feminist Challenges to Political Science," in Political Science: The State of the Discipline II, edited by Ada W. Finifter (Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 1993) (with Linda M. G. Zerilli).
- "Women State Legislators, Women's Organizations, and the Representation of Women's Culture in the United States," in Women Transforming Politics: Worldwide Strategies for Empowerment, edited by Jill M. Bystydzienski (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).
- "The Personal is Political: The Intersection of Private Lives and Public Roles Among Women and Men in Elective and Appointive Office," Women & Politics, 9 (1989): 51-67.
- "Women's Autonomy and the Gender Gap," in Politics of the Gender Gap: Public Opinion and Political Influence, edited by Carol Mueller (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1988).
- "Women Appointed to the Carter Administration: More or Less Qualified?" Polity, 18 (Summer 1986): 696-706.
- "Political Elites and Sex Differences in Political Ambition: A Reconsideration," Journal of Politics, 47 (November 1985): 1231-1243.
- "Women Candidates and Support for Feminist Concerns: The Closet Feminist Syndrome," Western Political Quarterly, 37 (June 1984): 307-323.
- Research:
Gender and electoral politics; political representation; recruitment; gender gap in voting and public opinion
Hawkesworth, Mary
- Mary Hawkesworth
- Professor II
- Office: Room 3, Ruth Dill Johnson Crocket Building (lower level)
- Phone: 848-932-8434
- Click for Web Site
- Specialties:
Feminist Theory, Women and Politics, Contemporary Political Philosophy, and Social Policy