David Plotke
Professor of Politics
Email
plotked@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 6 East 16th Street
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David Plotke is Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. His forthcoming book is Democratic Breakup: From the Civil Rights Act to the End of the Democratic Order.
Concentrations: U.S. politics: American political development: national political institutions, political and social movements; American political thought; citizenship, immigration, and ethnicity. Political theory: democratic theory; collective action.
Degrees Held
PhD 1985, University of California, Berkeley
Recent Publications
Democratic Breakup: From the Civil Rights Act to the End of the Democratic Order (forthcoming)
“Democratic Polities and Antidemocratic Politics,” Theoria (2006)
“Democracy and Groups,” Social Research volume 70 number 2 (Summer 2003): 463-498
Democracy and Boundaries: Themes in Contemporary Politics (2002)
“The Success and Anger of the Modern American Right: A New Introduction to The Radical Right” in a new edition of D. Bell (ed.), The Radical Right (2001)
“Representation is Democracy,” Constellations (1997)
Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s (1996).
Research Interests
I am preparing publications (books or monographs) on the following topics: Popular Conservatism and Political Disorder: American Politics in the Late Twentieth Century; Forms of Democracy and Forms of Representation; Martin Luther King, Jr. & American political thought; and Democratic Polities and Antidemocratic Politics.
Current Courses
2024 Election in Real Time
LPOL 3199, Fall 2024
2024 US Election
GPOL 6020, Fall 2024
Directed Dissertation Study
GPOL 7991, Fall 2024
Ind Senior Prject
LPOL 4990, Fall 2024
Independent Study
LPOL 3950, Fall 2024
Independent Study
GPOL 6990, Fall 2024
Social Sci Research in Action
LPOL 3951, Fall 2024
Future Courses
Directed Dissertation Study
GPOL 7991, Spring 2025
Independent Study
LPOL 3950, Spring 2025
Independent Study
GPOL 6990, Spring 2025
Qualitative Methods
GPOL 6195, Spring 2025
Social Sci Research in Action
LPOL 3951, Spring 2025
Past Courses
American Apocalypse?
GHIS 6140, Spring 2024
Directed Dissertation Study
GPOL 7991, Spring 2024
Independent Study
GPOL 6990, Spring 2024
Independent Study
LPOL 3950, Spring 2024
Polarization/Populism/U.S. Pol
GPOL 6128, Spring 2024
Social Sci Research in Action
LPOL 3951, Spring 2024
US 2024 Election
LPOL 3112, Spring 2024