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Douglas Whiting Rae (born 1939) is a political scientist and Richard Ely Professor of Political Science and Management at
Yale University
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. He is a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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and served as Chief Administrative Officer of the
City of New Haven,
Connecticut
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in 1990–1991. He has contributed to the
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The New Republic
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'', and ''
The New York Times
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''.
Education
He is a graduate of
Indiana University
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Campuses
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*Indiana Universi ...
and the
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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, where his Ph.D. adviser was
Austin Ranney J. Austin Ranney (September 23, 1920 – July 24, 2006) was an American political scientist and expert on political parties in the United States.
Ranney earned his bachelor's degree at Northwestern University, his master's degree at the University ...
.
Works
Perhaps his most seminal work, ''The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws'' (1967, 2nd ed. 1971), was the first systematic comparative analysis of electoral systems, applying the mathematical tools of social science to past elections in the Western industrialized world to determine the effects of electoral laws on election results, in particular on proportionality i.e. the correspondences between parties' vote shares and seat shares, and the number of parties in a given country. While the book has become dated by the explosion in electoral studies that occurred across the world more than a decade later, much of his terminology and guiding criteria e.g. his three basic dimensions of electoral systems (1) electoral formula (the mathematical method for translating votes into seats), (2) district magnitude (the number of members to be elected in a district), and (3) ballot structure (the way in which electoral choices are presented on the ballot), remain standard. It is generally regarded as the most important work on voting systems since
Maurice Duverger
Maurice Duverger (5 June 1917 – 16 December 2014) was a French jurist, sociologist, political scientist and politician born in Angoulême, Charente.
Starting his career as a jurist at the University of Bordeaux, Duverger became more and ...
's "Political Parties" (1951, trans. 1954).
Rae's other highly influential book is ''Equalities'', published in 1981. A noteworthy work on equality theory, "Equalities" compares and contrasts the ideas of a number of political theorists, including
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and ...
,
Robert Nozick,
John Rawls
John Bordley Rawls (; February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American moral, legal and political philosopher in the liberal tradition. Rawls received both the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy and the National Humanities Medal in ...
, and
Vilfredo Pareto
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto ( , , , ; born Wilfried Fritz Pareto; 15 July 1848 – 19 August 1923) was an Italians, Italian polymath (civil engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher). He made several important ...
.
''City: Urbanism and its End'', published in 2003, is a history of New Haven, Connecticut and puts forth an account of late-19th and early-20th century
urbanism
Urbanism is the study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment. It is a direct component of disciplines such as urban planning, which is the profession focusing on the physical design and ...
in American cities. In ''City'', Rae presents detailed evidence of the flourishing civic life present in New Haven and elsewhere in this period. He maintains that urbanism was a product of "centering technologies"—such as rail and alternating current electricity—and many of the vital qualities associated with urbanism were contingent on these "accidents of urban creation." In the case of New Haven, he argues that the unparalleled spending on
urban renewal
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities. Urban renewal involves the clearing out of blighte ...
by the administration of Mayor
Richard C. Lee were necessarily unable to halt the technological shifts that caused urbanism's end. Rae contends that, given the futility of resurrecting the physical qualities of urbanism, that further spending on urbanist regeneration should focus on the positive social qualities of urbanism.
Awards and recognition
Rae has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, was a fellow of Stanford’s
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
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, a fellow of the
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is an independent research institute in the field of the humanities and social and behavioural sciences founded in 1970. The instit ...
, and has received numerous honors and prizes for his research. He has consulted widely and variously to the parliaments of Spain, Italy, & the Netherlands Antilles, select corporate leaders, to numerous American cities and universities, and to the BBC.
Bibliography
Dissertation
*Rae, Douglas. (1967). ''The Politics of Electoral Law''
Books
*——. (1967). ''The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws''
*——, Taylor, Michael. (1970). ''The Analysis of Political Cleavages''
*——. (1981). ''Equalities''
*——. (2003). ''City: Urbanism and Its End'' (re-issued 2008)
*——, Bass, Paul. (2005). ''Murder in the Model City: The Black Panthers, Yale, and the Redemption of a Killer''
Articles
*——. (1969). "Decision-rules and Individual Values in Constitutional Choice." ''American Political Science Review''
*——. (1971). "Political Democracy as a Property of Political Institutions." ''American Political Science Review''
*——. (1975). "The Limits of Consensual Decision." ''American Political Science Review''
*——. Daudt, H. (1976). "The Ostrogorski Paradox: A Peculiarity of Compound Majority Decision" ''European Journal of Political Research''
*——. (1995). "Using District Magnitude to Regulate Political Party Competition." ''American Political Science Review''
Edited volumes
*——, Eismeier, Theodor J. (ed.) (1979). ''Public Policy and Public Choice''
Sources
*http://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/douglas-rae
*http://mba.yale.edu/faculty/profiles/rae.shtml
*http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/nyregion/08crime.html
*http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=r
*http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/09/opinion/09bass.html
*http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3612778/Sen_EqualitiesBookReview.pdf?sequence=4
Douglas W. Rae Papers (MS 1833).Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
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Living people
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
American political scientists
American political philosophers
Political philosophers
Yale University faculty
1939 births