Charles Fredrick Sabel (born December 1, 1947) is an American

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and professor of Law and Social Science at the

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. His research centers on public innovations,

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governance, labor standards, economic development, and ultra-robust networks. Sabel attended

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

and earned a B.A. in Social Studies in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Government in 1978. He was a faculty member in the departments of

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and

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at the

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between 1977 and 1995. He joined the faculty at

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in 1995. He is the recipient of a 1982 MacArthur Fellowship. Together with Joshua Cohen and others he developed the theory of directly deliberative polyarchy or democratic experimentalism, which is related to the concept of deliberative democracy. This concept mainly builds upon Japanese production methods interpreted as the institutionalization of decentralized learning. His 1984 book, ''The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity'', co-written with

Michael J. Piore Michael Joseph Piore (born August 14, 1940) is an American economist and professor of economics and political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research centers on labor economics, immigration, and innovation. He was awar ...

, has been widely influential among labor scholars. Sabel and others designed his mountain house via “a continuous mutual disruption,” which is a recurring theme in his scholarly work. He describes such disruptions saying, “What you do determines what I do, and vice versa. By the end of our collaboration, neither of us could have anticipated the result.” Charles Sabel received the honor of a Professorship through The Radboud Excellence Initiative at

Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ...

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. Sabel will begin his time in the Radboud Excellence Initiative in June 2015.

Publications

* ''Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World'', Princeton University Press, 2022. Coauthored with David G. Victor. * * * * * * * *

References

External links

Official homepage
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