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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 2014 - Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • 2001 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Ira Katznelson is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on social sciences, with contributions across political science and international relations, sociology and political science, and law.

The research topics covered by Katznelson include:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Race, History, and American Society
  • Law, Rights, and Freedoms
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Intelligence, Security, War Strategy

Their recent notable papers are:

  • "Is Liberal Socialism Possible? Reflections on 'Real Utopias'" (2020), published in Politics & Society
  • "Measuring Liberalism, Confronting Evil: A Retrospective" (2021), published in Annual Review of Political Science
  • "Response to Bullock et al.'s review of Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction" (2020), published in Perspectives on Politics
  • "The South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics. By Charles S. Bullock, Susan A. MacManus, Jeremy D. Mayer, and Mark J. Rozell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 208p. $99.00 cloth, $26.95 paper." (2020), published in Perspectives on Politics
  • "Index" (2020), published by Columbia University Press eBooks

Frequent co-authors of Katznelson are:

  • Richard Bourke
  • David Bateman
  • John S. Lapinski
  • Michael Lobban
  • Samuel Moyn

Katznelson's research has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Politics & Society
  • Annual Review of Political Science
  • Columbia University Press eBooks
  • The MIT Press eBooks

Their book publications include titles from major academic presses:

  • History in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2022), Cambridge University Press
  • Desolation and Enlightenment (2020), Columbia University Press
  • When Protest Makes Policy (2022), University of Michigan Press
  • Liberalism's Crooked Circle (2021), Princeton University Press

Katznelson has received several awards and honors, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2015)
  • Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association (2014)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2001)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000)

Best Publications

  • Historical Institutionalism in Contemporary Political Science

    Ira Katznelson;Helen V. Milner;Theda Skocpol;Paul Pierson

  • City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States

    Ira Katznelson

  • When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

    Ira Katznelson

  • Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

    Ira Katznelson

  • Political science : the state of the discipline

    Ira Katznelson;Helen V. Milner

  • Working-class formation : nineteenth-century patterns in Western Europe and the United States

    John D. Stephens;Ira Katznelson;Aristide R. Zolberg

  • Limiting Liberalism: The Southern Veto in Congress, 1933-1950

    Ira Katznelson;Kim Geiger;Daniel Kryder

  • Marxism and the city

    Ira Katznelson

  • Schooling for All : Class, Race, and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal

    Ira Katznelson;Margaret Weir

  • The Southern Imposition: Congress and Labor in the New Deal and Fair Deal

    Sean Farhang;Ira Katznelson

  • When affirmative action was white

    Ira Katznelson

  • Preferences and situations : points of intersection between historical and rational choice institutionalism

    Ira Katznelson;Barry R. Weingast

  • International Political Economy: Global and Domestic Interactions

    Jeffry Frieden;Lisa Martin;Ira Katznelson;Helen V. Milner

  • Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns

    Andreas Kalyvas;Ira Katznelson

  • Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States, and Citizenship

    Pierre Birnbaum;Ira Katznelson

  • The Cold War and the University

    Ira Katznelson;Noam Chomsky

  • Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust

    Ira Katznelson

  • Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development

    Ira Katznelson;Martin Shefter

  • Liberal Beginnings: Acknowledgments

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  • Adam Ferguson returns : Liberalism through a glass, darkly

    Andreas Kalyvas;Ira Katznelson

  • Religion and the Political Imagination

    Ira Katznelson;Gareth Stedman Jones

  • Designing Historical Social Scientific Inquiry: How Parameter Heterogeneity Can Bridge the Methodological Divide between Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

    Gregory J. Wawro;Ira Katznelson

  • Black Men, White Cities: Race, Politics, and Migration in the United States, 1900-30, and Britain, 1948-68.

    James W. Loewen;Ira Katznelson

  • Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States, and Citizenship

    Alan G. Davidson;Pierre Birnbaum;Ira Katznelson

  • On Democratic Reason

    Ira Katznelson

  • Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States

    Allen Steinberg;Ira Katznelson;Aristide R. Zolberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry R. Weingast
Barry R. Weingast Stanford University
Helen V. Milner
Helen V. Milner Princeton University
Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol Harvard University
Richard Rose
Richard Rose University of Strathclyde
Ian McAllister
Ian McAllister Australian National University
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker Harvard University
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University
Chris Hamnett
Chris Hamnett King's College London
Alan S. Gerber
Alan S. Gerber Yale University

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