Stephen Skowronek

Stephen Skowronek

Stephen Skowronek (born 1951) is an American political scientist, noted for his research on American national institutions and the U.S. presidency, and for helping to stimulate the study of American political development.

Skowronek grew up in Bridgewater, New Jersey, where he graduated high school in 1969. He attended Oberlin College, completing a B.A. in 1973, and earned his Ph.D. in political science from Cornell University in 1979. His doctoral dissertation was revised and published as his first book, "Building a New American State" (1982).

Skowronek taught at Cornell and UCLA before becoming a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1985. Skowronek joined the political science faculty of Yale University in 1986, and has been Pelatiah Perit Professor of political and social science at Yale since 1999. He has also been a visiting professor at several American and European universities, including as Chair in American Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 1996-1997.

Skowronek has collaborated with Karen Orren on several projects, including founding the academic journal Studies in American Political Development in 1986Fact|date=July 2007, and writing the book "The Search for American Political Development" (2004). Through their work, Skowronek and Orren have significantly fostered the growth of American political development (or APD) as a distinct subfield within the discipline of political science.

The first edition of Skowronek's book "The Politics Presidents Make" (1993) won two awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA): the J. David Greenstone Prize for best book in politics and history and the Richard E. Neustadt Prize for best book on the American presidency. Skowronek served as President of the Politics and History Section of APSA for 1994-1995.

Publications

*"Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities", 1877-1920 Cambridge University Press 1982 ISBN 0-521-28865-7
*"The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton", Belknap Press 1997 ISBN 0-674-68937-2
*"The Search for American Political Development", Cambridge University Press 2004 ISBN 0-521-54764-4 (with Karen Orren)
*"Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making", University of Pennsylvania Press 2007 ISBN 978-0-8122-4012-2 (co-edited by Matthew Glassman)
*"Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State", New York University Press 2007 ISBN 978-0814740569 (co-edited with Ian Shapiro and Daniel Galvin)

ources

* Zelizer, Julian. 2003. "Stephen Skowronek's "Building a New American State" and the Origins of American Political Development." "Social Science History" 27(3): 425-441.


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