David Plotke
Professor of Politics
Email
plotked@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street
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David Plotke is Professor of at The New School for Social Research. He received his PhD from the 好色先生 of California at Berkeley. His forthcoming book is聽Democratic Breakup: From the Civil Rights Act to the End of the Democratic Order.
Concentrations: U.S. politics: American political development: national political institutions, political and social movements; American political thought; citizenship, immigration, and ethnicity. Political theory: democratic theory; collective action.
Degrees Held
PhD 1985, 好色先生 of California, Berkeley
Recent Publications
Democratic Breakup: From the Civil Rights Act to the End of the Democratic Order (forthcoming)
鈥淒emocratic Polities and Antidemocratic Politics,鈥 Theoria (2006)
鈥淒emocracy and Groups,鈥 Social Research volume 70 number 2 (Summer 2003): 463-498
Democracy and Boundaries: Themes in Contemporary Politics (2002)
鈥淭he Success and Anger of the Modern American Right: A New Introduction to The Radical Right鈥 in a new edition of D. Bell (ed.), The Radical Right (2001)
鈥淩epresentation is Democracy,鈥 Constellations (1997)
Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s (1996).
Research Interests
I am preparing publications (books or monographs) on the following topics: Popular Conservatism and Political Disorder: American Politics in the Late Twentieth Century; Forms of Democracy and Forms of Representation; Martin Luther King, Jr. & American political thought; and Democratic Polities and Antidemocratic Politics.