Ira Katznelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 80998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ira Katznelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ira |
| FAMILY NAME | Katznelson |
| SIGNATURE | KATZNELSON I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 124 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 321 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 122 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Congressional Substance and Significance
When the People Rule
In recent decades, popular sovereignty has come under increasing pressure. The rise of populism, often illiberal or authoritarian, has undermined minority rights, individual autonomy, and rule of law. The expansion of international institutions and greater reliance on market and non-governmental organizations have gradually insulated large areas of policymaking from public control. In turn, these developments cast doubt on the viability and desir…
Working-Class Formation
Measuring Liberalism, Confronting Evil
Taking liberalism's measure as an indispensable yet inherently fragile design grounded in the rule of law, government by consent, individual and public rights, and political representation, my work at the intersection of ideas, institutions, and methods to appraise behavior has focused on origins and transitions, membership boundaries and domination, and an unsteady bonding with the older regime model of democracy. Shaped by early and later life …
Was the Great Society a Lost Opportunity?
Response to Bullock et al.’s review of Southern Nation
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American political development and new challenges of causal inference
Is Liberal Socialism Possible? Reflections on 'Real Utopias
This essay, written in memory of Erik Olin Wright (1947-2019), explores the possibility of liberal socialism. Wright sought to rescue both liberalism and socialism from their demonstrated capacity for depredation. His legacy challenges reformers to proceed with the audacity of real, and realistic, utopianism together with an awareness that, unfortunately, the obverse of an appealing utopianism always beckons
On Illuminating Darkness
Southern Nation
Southern Nation
No question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South. This book examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy and American institutions from Reconstruction to the New Deal—and along the way remade the region and the nation in their own image. The central paradox of southern politics was how such a highly diverse region could be transformed into a coherent and unified bloc. This book shows h…
Southern Nation
State of Exception in the Anglo-American Liberal Tradition
Knowledge about What?
Knowledge about What? Policy Intellectuals and the New Liberalism
Introduction
Introduction:Perspectives on Knowledge and Democratic Reason Ira Katznelson (bio) each contributor to this section considers social knowledge to be an instrument of democratic reason. In these respects, their contributions implicitly stand on the shoulders of a powerful article written as war raged in 1942 on "Science and Technology in a Democratic Order." Composed by the sociologist Robert K. Merton, that essay observed that "incipient and actua…
Religious Conversion
An Institutional Alternative
Apsa Renames Helen Dwight Reid Award for Merze Tate
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Apsa Inaugurates the Robert A. Dahl Award
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Breaking Down the State
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them. This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents. All theoretical perspectives are welcome. Books in the series typically combine theory with empirica…
Southern Politics Revisited
V. O. Key's Southern Politics in State and Nation continues to be a central text in political science, the single most important work in understanding the role of the South in American politics. This article returns to, replicates, and seeks to advance Key's analysis of southern politics in Congress, reanalyzing and extending his account of southern strategies and actions in the House of Representatives. Where Key's text was characterized by an e…
On reading Fear Itself
Albert Hirschman and the Social Sciences
Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012) is recognized as one of the most well-rounded and interdisciplinary social scientists of the postwar era. After fleeing Germany as a young opponent of the Nazi regime, he moved across countries, languages, and disciplinary boundaries. He was a pioneer of development economics and other social sciences, to which he contributed with exemplary analyses of the processes and mechanisms of political, economic, and social…
Dark Reason
Excerpt: "Composed primarily by leading members of the émigré community of the 1930s and 1940s, the writings of the first generation of Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Political and Social Sciences demand special attention as we mark this publication's eight decades of sustained and rigorous reflection. Though they wrote under pressure, unlike the luminous list inventoried by Strauss they had no need, once in New York, to hide …
The Southern Imposition
In this article, we will probe two distinct historical questions. First, we explore why congressional representatives from the South, who had generally supported the Democratic Party on labor issues during the 1930s, joined with Republicans to oppose the party's pro-labor orientation in the 1940s. We also examine why the class-based union movement that mobilized so assertively after the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935 became so cramped and prag…
Limiting Liberalism
IRA KATZNELSON is Loeb Professor of Political Science and Social Science at the New School for Social Research. KIM GEIGER is a Ph.D. candidate at the New School, currently completing a dissertation on the origins and implications of the GI bill. DANIEL KRYDER is an assistant professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working on racial conflict and wartime mobilization in the 1940s
Designing Historical Social Scientific Inquiry
Seeking to advance historical studies of political institutions and behavior, we argue for an expansion of the standard methodological toolkit with a set of innovative approaches that privilege parameter heterogeneity to capture nuances missed by more commonly used approaches. We address critiques by prominent historians and historically oriented political scientists who have underscored the shortcomings of mainstream quantitative approaches for …
Shaped by War and Trade
Was the South Pivotal? Situated Partisanship and Policy Coalitions during the New Deal and Fair Deal
Committed to a situated historical approach to studies of Congress, this article demonstrates how the 17-state Jim Crow South composed a structurally pivotal bloc during the New Deal and Fair Deal (1933–52) due to its size and cohesion and the need for southern votes to constitute majority coalitions. Empirically, it asks how southern members deployed this capacity and with what consequences. Utilizing a multilevel coding of policy substance, it …
On Race and Policy History
We have independently analyzed the effects of the G.I. Bill's widely-utilized education and training benefits, and reached different conclusions. One of us argues that the implementation of these benefits, especially in the South, helped widen the income and wealth gaps between whites and blacks and further marginalized many African Americans; the other considers them to have been a rare example of a relatively inclusive policy, one that fostered…
At the Crossroads
This essay starts with an observation, proceeds to an exhortation, and concludes with a set of suggestions.Congress has been situated on the outside edge of the subfield of American Political Development (APD) despite the institution's centrality both to the political history of the United States and to political science as a discipline. Apart from an important but limited number of works—including a long-term research enterprise on the role of s…
Considerations on Social Democracy in the United States
European social and political observers have often regarded the economic achievements of the United States, and the apparent fluidity of its social order, with envy. In complementary fashion, the American Left (with politics ranging from the liberal wing of the Democratic party leftward) has rather consistently aspired to make American politics receptive to the proposals and practices of European social democrats. Yet, if considerations of social…
Desolation and Enlightenment
Beyond Common Measure2. The Origins of Dark Times3. A Seminar on the State4. A New ObjectivityIndex
The Doleful Dance of Politics and Policy
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Schooling for All
At the Court of Chaos
An anonymous late eighteenth century British painting at the Ackland Museum in Chapel Hill portrays “Satan Leaving the Court of Chaos,” a reference to Book II of John Milton's Paradise Lost. In an assertion of demotic power, Satan, “the adversary of God and man,” travels “full fraught with mischievous revenge” from Chaos, where he is most at home, to God's created world in order to corrupt Adam and Eve and induce original sin
Rethinking the Silences of Social and Economic Policy
Journal Article Rethinking the Silences of Social and Economic Policy Get access Ira Katznelson Ira Katznelson IRA KATZNELSON is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research. His two most recent books are City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States and Schooling for All: Class, Race, and the Decline of the American Ideal (with Margaret…
The Rhetoric of the Market
We probe the connections linking the market, speech, and sympathy in the work of Adam Smith, stressing how individuals strive for social esteem and ethical credit while competing in markets. We demonstrate how Smith approached speech and rhetoric as constituting attributes of markets, the modern analogue of previous institutional foundations for social order. Thus, markets are not simply, or exclusively, arenas for the instrumental quest by compe…
Rebuilding the American State
From the vantage point of a critical moment in the history of statebuilding in the United States, we wish to take a fresh look at questions about the resources and wherewithal of the national state. Within modern American political science, a focus on state capacity is at least as old as the landmark essay by Woodrow Wilson on “The Study of Administration” and as current as the important scholarly impulse that has revived interest in the state at…
Adam Ferguson Returns
Soulignant la pertinence de la philosophie politique d'A. Ferguson au regard d'une evaluation de la tradition liberale, l'A. etudie les solutions theoriques nouvelles apportees par Ferguson au conflit entre republicanisme et liberalisme. Examinant la relation entre l'autonomie publique et l'autonomie privee, ainsi que la conception premoderne de la democratie dans le programme de Ferguson, l'A. montre que la contribution de ce dernier a l'idee de…
States, regimes, and decisions
Books in Review
We are Modern Men
Workers of the World, Compare
Lenin or Weber? Choices in Marxist Theories of Politics
American political development and new challenges of causal inference
Albert Hirschman and the Social Sciences
Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012) is recognized as one of the most well-rounded and interdisciplinary social scientists of the postwar era. After fleeing Germany as a young opponent of the Nazi regime, he moved across countries, languages, and disciplinary boundaries. He was a pioneer of development economics and other social sciences, to which he contributed with exemplary analyses of the processes and mechanisms of political, economic, and social…
On Liberal Ambivalence
On the Practice of Originality
I know just how pleased Charles Tilly was to receive the Albert O. Hirschman Prize. The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an institution he cherished, and Hirschman is a person for whom Tilly had almost limitless admiration. He particularly esteemed the assertive analytic power and intellectual modesty that characterized Hirschman's “Rival Interpretations of Market Society,” the brilliant 1982 Marc Bloch Lecture that addressed competing i…
Political relevance of prejudice the claims of black Britons
The Politics of Racial Buffering in Nottingham, 1954-1968
Antagonistic Ambiguity
Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity
Participation and Political Buffers in Urban America
Black Men, White Cities
Journal Article Black Men, White Cities: Race, Politics, and Migration in the United States, 1900–30, and Britain, 1948–68. By Ira Katznelson. (London: Oxford University Press, 1973. xii + 219 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $9.95.) Get access Seth M. Scheiner Seth M. Scheiner Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 4, March 1974, Pages 1160–1161, http…
Black Men, White Cities
Black Men, White Cities
Pressure Groups in Britain 1720-1970
Journal Article Pressure Groups in Britain 1720-1970: An Essay and Interpretation with Original Documents, by Graham Wootton Get access Pressure Groups in Britain 1720-1970: An Essay and Interpretation with Original Documents by Graham Wootton. Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1975.–x, 375 pp. $20.00. Ira Katznelson Ira Katznelson University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterl…
Redefining social science
Middle-Class Blacks in a White Society
Patterns of Interracial Politics
Considerations on Social Democracy in the United States
European social and political observers have often regarded the economic achievements of the United States, and the apparent fluidity of its social order, with envy. In complementary fashion, the American Left (with politics ranging from the liberal wing of the Democratic party leftward) has rather consistently aspired to make American politics receptive to the proposals and practices of European social democrats. Yet, if considerations of social…
Mutual Accommodations
Community, Capitalist Development, and the Emergence of Class
Lenin or Weber? Choices in Marxist Theories of Politics
Space, Time, and Politics
Public Schooling and Working-Class Formation
This essay examines the role of the working class in the expansion of the American public school system from 1870 to 1900. In contrast to progressive and recent revisionist historians, the authors identify the nature and limits of conflict as the key to explaining the growth of public education in the United States. Four empirical claims are made: (1) The working class did not provide the central agency struggling to expand the school systems cre…
Slicing the political pie
Schooling for All
Rethinking the Silences of Social and Economic Policy
Journal Article Rethinking the Silences of Social and Economic Policy Get access Ira Katznelson Ira Katznelson IRA KATZNELSON is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research. His two most recent books are City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States and Schooling for All: Class, Race, and the Decline of the American Ideal (with Margaret…
The Committee on Historical Studies-The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
Research Article| October 01 1986 The Committee on Historical Studies—The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research Ira Katznelson; Ira Katznelson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Louise Tilly Louise Tilly Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (36): 134–136. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1986-36-134 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Working-Class Formation
The United States Working Class and Schooling
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
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