CEWS Profile: Douglas Rae

Douglas Rae obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1967. Professor Rae is the Richard S. Ely Professor of Organization and Management and Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is a specialist in the political economy of cities, electoral politics, political ideology, and power relations. A political scientist and member of the Yale faculty since 1967, he took leave in 1990 and 1991 to serve as chief administrative officer of the City of New Haven. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former Guggenheim Fellow, Professor Rae has been a consultant for the Parliament of Spain, the Italian Christian Democratic Party, and the BBC. He has served as president of Leeway, Inc., a nonprofit corporation serving AIDS patients. His many published works (some of which have been translated into several languages), include: Equalities, Political Consequences of Electoral Law, and The Analysis of Political Cleavages (with M. Taylor). His latest book, City: Urbanism and Its End was published by Yale University Press in the fall of 2003.