Faculty

Profile

I am Professor Emeritus of Politics at The New School for Social Research.

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.

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.