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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Rogers M. Smith is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the Social Sciences with a strong focus on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, and Law, including some work in Economics and Econometrics and Strategy and Management.

Their work addresses a range of topics within political science, specifically:

  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Political Science Research and Education
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics

Recent publications by Rogers M. Smith include:

  • White Protectionism in America, 2020, Perspectives on Politics
  • What Good Can Political Science Do? From Pluralism to Partnerships, 2020, Perspectives on Politics
  • Racial Reparations against White Protectionism: America's New Racial Politics, 2021, The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics
  • Toward Progressive Narratives of American Identity, 2020, Polity
  • Legal Civic Orders and Equitable Lived Citizenships, 2021, American Political Science Review

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Polity
  • PS Political Science & Politics
  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • American Political Thought

Collaborations have been part of their scholarly activity, with several regular coauthors:

  • Desmond King
  • Amy Cabrera Rasmussen
  • Peter Levine
  • Robert C. Lieberman
  • Valeria Sinclair-Chapman

Rogers M. Smith has authored books published by Yale University Press, including two editions of That Is Not Who We Are!, both released in 2020.

Among their recognitions, they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History

    Rogers M. Smith

  • Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America

    Rogers M. Smith

  • Stories of Peoplehood: The Politics and Morals of Political Membership

    Rogers M. Smith

  • Racial orders in American political development

    Desmond S. King;Rogers M. Smith

  • Political Jurisprudence, the “New Institutionalism,” and the Future of Public Law

    Rogers M. Smith

  • Citizenship Without Consent: Illegal Aliens in the American Polity

    Peter H. Schuck;Rogers M. Smith

  • The "American Creed" and American Identity: the Limits of Liberal Citizenship in the United States:

    Rogers M. Smith

  • Still a House Divided

    Desmond S. King;Rogers M. Smith

  • Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama's America

    Desmond S. King;Rogers M. Smith

  • Liberalism and American constitutional law

    Rogers M. Smith

  • Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics

    Ian Shapiro;Rogers M. Smith;Tarek E. Masoud

  • Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History.

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  • Identities, Interests, and the Future of Political Science

    Rogers M. Smith

  • The "American Creed" and American Identity: The Limits of Liberal Citizenship in the United States

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  • Citizenship and the Politics of People-Building

    Rogers M. Smith

  • "One United People": Second-Class Female Citizenship and the American Quest for Community

    Rogers M Smith

  • Still Blowing in the Wind: The American Quest for a Democratic, Scientific Political

    Rogers M. Smith

  • If Politics Matters: Implications for a “New Institutionalism”

    Rogers M. Smith

  • BARACK OBAMA AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN RACIAL POLITICS

    Rogers M. Smith;Desmond S. King

  • Stories of Peoplehood

    Rogers Smith

  • White Protectionism in America

    Rogers M. Smith;Desmond King

  • Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P Huntington

    Rogers M. Smith

  • Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History

    Thomas Janoski;Rogers Smith

  • Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship

    Sigal R. Ben-Porath;Rogers M. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Desmond King
Desmond King University of Oxford
Peter H. Schuck
Peter H. Schuck Yale University
Ian Shapiro
Ian Shapiro Yale University
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University
Jane Mansbridge
Jane Mansbridge Harvard University
Mark Bevir
Mark Bevir University of California, Berkeley
Robert O. Keohane
Robert O. Keohane Princeton University
Mark Tushnet
Mark Tushnet Harvard University
David Collier
David Collier University of California, Berkeley
Susan C. Stokes
Susan C. Stokes University of Chicago

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