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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Robert O. Keohane | | | Institution: | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Robert O. Keohane is a professor of public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (1984) and Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (2002). He is co-author (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) of Power and Interdependence (third edition 2001) and (with Gary King and Sidney Verba) Designing Social Inquiry (1994). Dr. Keohane has taught at Swarthmore College and Stanford, Brandeis, Harvard and Duke Universities. At Harvard he was Stanfield Professor of International Peace, and at Duke he was the James B. Duke Professor of Political Science. Professor Keohane obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1966. Between 1974 and 1980 he was editor of the journal International Organization. He has also been president of the International Studies Association (1988-89) and of the American Political Science Association (1999-2000). Dr. Keohane is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the National Humanities Center. He was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 2005 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences that same year. He was listed as the most influential scholar of international relations in a 2005 Foreign Policy poll. | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Lawrence Lessig | | | Institution: | Harvard Law School | | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1961 | | | | | | |
Perhaps the world's leading scholar of law and the Internet, Lawrence Lessig is an expert on the effects of new digital technologies on traditional assumptions about copyright and constitutional law. His dazzling contributions to public debate about the balance between ownership of intellectual property and freedom of ideas extend beyond the academy. Author of three pioneering books and numerous articles on ideas and innovation in cyberspace, he is also the founder of Creative Commons, an international consortium of artists, scholars and writers who agree to allow others to use their work more broadly than ordinary copyright permits. In updating his now-classic book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, he invited readers to contribute to the editing process itself, expanding the definition of a commons from physical space to the world of ideas.
Lessig was a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society before he was appointed professor of law at Harvard Law School and director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard 2009 to 2015. He is currently Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Dr. Lessig previously served on the faculty of Harvard Law School, where he was the Berkman Professor of Law, and he has also taught at the University of Chicago. Professor Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Professor Lessig is the author of The Future of Ideas (2001), Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), Free Culture (2004), Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It (2011), and America, Compromised (2018). He serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. He is also a columnist for Wired.
Lessig has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online." He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2007. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. David R. Mayhew | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 2007 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 304. Jurisprudence and Political Science | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1937 | | | | | | |
David R. Mayhew: I have been watching and trying to understand American politics since I was eleven or so. I remember the vote in my elementary school homeroom in 1948 in which Truman beat Dewey by 17 to 6. Later I came to realize that that was roughly a religious census of my Connecticut village with the Catholics voting one way and the Protestants the other. I started collecting newspaper and magazine articles about politics in 1950. I kept a choice Saturday Evening Post article, for example, telling how Everett Dirksen won his Illinois Senate seat that year. Only recently have I heaved out most of this material. At age seventy I am downsizing my possessions. Once in college I enlisted in political science quickly. It was at Amherst College in 1954. As a first-semester freshman I took a political science course replete with seniors and juniors where I earned a C+. This was not a good beginning. But I kept at it under the tutelage of Earl Latham, Karl Loewenstein, Dick Fenno, George Kateb and others, wrote a senior essay addressing the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and then went on to a Ph.D at the Harvard Government Department. There I was lucky enough to work with Louis Hartz, Sam Beer, Bob McCloskey, and, as my dissertation advisor, V.O. Key, Jr. All of these figures had a vigorous interest in history. I grew into that interest too, and I pursued it at Harvard in courses taught by many of the American history specialists there at that time-Frank Freidel, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Oscar Handlin, and Bernard Bailyn. The roots of American policymaking is probably as good a tagline as any for my core interest as a professional academic. I have pursued that interest in a variety of writings at UMass/Amherst in the 1960s and at Yale University starting in 1968. A taste for simple statistics, time series, and history has gone into those writings. Parties, elections, institutional configurations, individual initiative, public moods, wars, and events in general have figured as routes to explanation or at least, I hope, illumination. Although not all that consciously, I probably followed V.O. Key, Jr., more than anyone else in developing this package of tendencies. Another powerful intellectual influence, though, was the Yale Political Science Department of the 1970s. From Robert Dahl and others I learned that a book could consist of a decently worked-out argument centering on rational action and could be short. In that spirit that I crafted a 1974 work, Congress: The Electoral Connection. If members of Congress are posited to be single-minded seekers of reelection, I asked, what might the consequences be for institutional structure and policy? I came back to the model of a short, worked-out argument book in a 2002 work, Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre. Yet starting in the 1986 I have also written works based on complicated time-series datasets that I spent a good deal of time and energy collecting and processing. In Divided We Govern (1991, since updated) I explored the consequences for legislative production of having unified as opposed to divided party control of the U.S. national government. There hasn't been a great deal of difference. Under divided party control have come, for example, the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, the Marshall Plan in 1948, the Federal Highway Act of 1956, the Clean Air Act of 1970, the Reagan tax cuts of 1981, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Iraq Resolution of 2002. In America's Congress (2000), I took a look at individual initiative engaged in by members of Congress from the days of James Madison in the early 1790s-as he spurred a House-based opposition to Alexander Hamilton-through the days of Edward Kennedy and John McCain. Lately I have investigated the role of events, notably wars, in generating policy and electoral change. Currently I am aiming toward a short book on U.S. separation of powers. With the often clanking relations between Senate, House, and presidency, why doesn't the American system fall apart? | |
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