Ira I. Katznelson (born 1944) is an American political scientist and historian, noted for his research on the liberal state, inequality, social knowledge, and institutions, primarily focused on the United States. His work has been characterized as an "interrogation of political liberalism in the United States and Europe—asking for definition of its many forms, their origins, their strengths and weaknesses, and what kinds there can be".[2]
Katznelson has written or co-written ten books, co-edited several others, and published over sixty journal articles.
He questions "when and why liberal democracies become normatively appealing (less closed and more tolerant) and more effective (less vulnerable and more secure)."[1] He is particularly interested in the connections and transitions between the political traditions of liberalism and republicanism in the United States.[16] His work goes beyond the study of U.S. politics to include international relations, political theory, comparative politics, and comparative history.[17]
His book Liberalism’s Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik (1996) won American Political Science Association's (APSA) Michael Harrington Prize. Desolation and Enlightenment (2003) won the David and Elaine Spitz Award of the Conference of Political Thought, given to the best book in liberal or democratic theory, and the David Easton Award of APSA's Foundations of Political Thought Section. In March 2014, Katznelson was awarded the Bancroft Prize for his book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time.[18]
Bibliographyedit
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Black Men, White Cities; Race, Politics, And Migration In The United States, 1900–30 and Britain, 1948–68. 1973. Oxford University Press.[19]
City Trenches: Urban Politics And The Patterning Of Class In The United States. 1981. Pantheon Books.
Schooling For All: Class, Race, And The Decline Of The Democratic Ideal. 1985. Basic Books. (written with Margaret Weir).
Political Science: The State Of The Discipline. 2002. W.W. Norton. (edited with Helen Milner).
Desolation And Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, And The Holocaust. 2003. Columbia University Press.
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History Of Racial Inequality In Twentieth-Century America. 2005. W.W. Norton.
Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism. 2005. Russell Sage Foundation. (written with Barry Weingast).
The Politics of Power: A Critical Introduction to American Government, 6th ed. 2006. (written with Mark Kesselman and Alan Draper). ISBN 978-0-15-570735-1
Kalyvas, Andreas; Katznelson, Ira, eds. (2008). Liberal beginnings : making a republic for the moderns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521899468.[20]
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. 2013. Liverlight.
Critical studies and reviewsedit
Menand, Louis (March 4, 2013). "How the Deal went down: saving democracy in the Depression". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 3. pp. 69–74. Retrieved 2015-05-11. Reviews Fear itself : the New Deal and the origins of our time.
Referencesedit
^ abcdeKatznelson, Ira (2021-05-11). "Measuring Liberalism, Confronting Evil: A Retrospective". Annual Review of Political Science. 24 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-042219-030219. ISSN 1094-2939.
^Valelly, Richard M. (October 2005). "Ira Katznelson: Toward a Useful Historical Political Science of Liberalism". PS: Political Science & Politics. 38 (4): 797–800. doi:10.1017/S1049096505210429. S2CID 145483023.
^ abUtter, Glenn H.; Lockhart, Charles, eds. (2002). American Political Scientists: A Dictionary (2nd ed.). Westport, CT; London: Greenwich Press. pp. 193–196. ISBN 9780313319570. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^"Ira Katznelson: Biography". Columbia University. Archived from the original on 11 December 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
^"Ira Katznelson Named Next SSRC President". Social Science Research Council. Archived from the original on 17 June 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
^"Ira Katznelson, CC '66, to serve as interim provost". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
^Bwog Staff (8 March 2021). "Interim Provost Speaks On Upcoming Graduate Workers Strike". Bwog Columbia Student News.
^Patel, Vimal (March 11, 2021). "A Labor Sympathizer, Now on the Management Side, Calls for 'Mutual Realism'". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^"Ira Katznelson Finishes Term as Mary Boyce Becomes Provost". Columbia News. Columbia University. June 30, 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^"Margaret Levi". Stanford University. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
^Katznelson, Ira (2007). "APSA Presidential Address: At the Court of Chaos: Political Science in an Age of Perpetual Fear". Perspectives on Politics. 5 (1): 3–15. doi:10.1017/S1537592707070028. JSTOR 20446346. S2CID 145795894. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-06-10.
^"Commencements; New School Confers Degrees on 1,433". The New York Times. May 25, 1994. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^"I.B.14 – QUEENS COLLEGE - RESOLUTION TO AWARD HONORARY DEGREES" (PDF). I.B.14 – QUEENS COLLEGE. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^"University of Cambridge honorary degrees 2018". Cambridge University. 20 June 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^Kurtz, Geoffrey (August 26, 2009). "From Liberalism to Social Democracy". Dissent Magazine. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
^Berman, Sheri (2014). "The New Deal and U.S. Democracy A Discussion of 'Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time' By Ira Katznelson". Perspectives on Politics. 12 (3): 704–715. doi:10.1017/S1537592714001728. JSTOR 43281065. S2CID 144115543. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
^"Winners of the 2014 Bancroft Prize Announced". Columbia University Libraries. March 13, 2014. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
^"Ira Katznelson | ISERP". Columbia University. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
^Weeber, U. (1 June 2011). "Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns, ed. Andreas Kalyvas and Ira Katznelson". The English Historical Review. CXXVI (520): 711–713. doi:10.1093/ehr/cer078. Retrieved 12 July 2021.