Ira Katznelson
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Political Science
Department of History - Director, American Institutions Project
- Organizer, Workshop on 20th Century American Politics and Society
Research
Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge University. His books include Black Men, White Cities: Race, Politics, and Migration in the United States, 1900-1930, Britain, 1948-1968 (Oxford University Press, 1973), City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States (Pantheon Books, 1981), Schooling for All: Race, Class, and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal (with Margaret Weir; Basic Books, 1985), Marxism and the City (Oxford University Press, 1992), Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik (Princeton University Press, 1996; winner of the New Political Science Michael Harrington Prize and the Lionel Trilling Award for the best book by a Columbia faculty member), and Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge after the Holocaust, Totalitarianism, and Total War (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2003). A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has served as President of the Social Science History Association and the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association.
Selected Work
- Preferences amd Situations: Points of Intersections Between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism, Eds. Ira Katznelson and Barry R. Weingast. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005.
- When Affirmative Action was White: an Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
- Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After the Holocaust, Totalitarianism, and Total War Columbia University Press
- "The Possibilities of Analytical History" In Julian Zelizer, Meg Jacobs, and William Novak, eds., Democracy in America: New Directions in American Political History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003
- Political Science: State of the Discipline. The Centennial Edition W.W. Norton & Company for the American Political Science Association, 2002 (edited with Helen Milner)
- "Periodization And Preferences: Reflections On Purposive Action in Comparative Historical Social Science" James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds., In Comparative Political Historical Analysis: Achievements and Agendas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003
- "Embracing Liberalism: Germane de Staël's Farewell to Republicanism" In Paschalis Kitromilides, ed., From Republicanism to National Community: Reconsiderations of Enlightenment Political Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 (co-authored with Andreas Kalyvas)
- *Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development Princeton University Press, 2002 (edited with Martin Shefter)
- "Evil and Politics," Daedalus, Winter 2002
- "Public Policy and the Middle-Class Racial Divide After the Second World War," Olivier Zunz, Leonard Schoppa, and Nobuhiro Hiwatari, eds., In Postwar Social Contracts Under Stress: The Middle Classes of America, Europe, and Japan at the Turn of the Century. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002
See Also
- Research grant: Substance of Representation: Studying Policy Content and Legislative Performance
- Featured publications by Ira Katznelson
- Working paper: Policy Space and Voting Coalitions in Congress: the Bearing of Policy on Politics, 1930-1954
- Newsletter article: ISERP Affiliates Appointed Visiting Scholars at the Russell Sage Foundation
- Announcement: Katznelson Wins Spitz Prize
