Peter Dreier is an American

urban policy Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportatio ...

analyst, author, self-described

democratic socialist Democratic socialism is a left-wing economic and political philosophy that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers' self-mana ...

, and college political science professor. He is the Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at

Occidental College Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is ...

Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...

. Dreier labels himself a "committed Jew."

Education

Dreier graduated from

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. It was established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church but has been nonsectarian since 1920 ...

with a B.A. in 1970 and from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

with a Ph.D. in 1977.

Career

Dreier was the Director of Housing at the

Boston Redevelopment Authority The Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA), formerly the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), is a Massachusetts public agency that serves as the municipal planning and development agency for Boston, working on both housing and commercial de ...

and senior policy advisor to

Boston Mayor The mayor of Boston is the head of the municipal government in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Boston has a mayor–council government. Boston's mayoral elections are nonpartisan (as are all municipal elections in Boston), and elect a may ...

Ray Flynn for nine years. In January 1993, Dreier became a professor at

. In 1993, Dreier was appointed by the

Clinton administration Bill Clinton's tenure as the 42nd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1993, and ended on January 20, 2001. Clinton, a Democrat from Arkansas, took office following his victory over Republican in ...

to the advisory board of

Resolution Trust Corporation Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) was a U.S. government-owned asset management company first run by Lewis William Seidman and charged with liquidating assets, primarily real estate-related assets such as mortgage loans, that had been assets ...

. Dreier is an urban policy analyst. He was a member of the

Democratic Socialists of America The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a political organization in the United States and the country's largest Socialism, socialist organization. Sitting on the Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left of the politic ...

until 2023, when he left due to DSA's statements regarding the

7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel On October 7, 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli ...

Selected works

* ''The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame''. * *Peter Dreier, John H. Mollenkopf, Todd Swanstrom, ''Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century'', University Press of Kansas, 2004, *Peter Dreier and Robert Elias
''Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America''

University of Nebraska Press The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books. The press is under the auspices of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the main campus of the University of Ne ...

, 2022.

References

External links

*
Content by Peter Dreier
on the

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news website
Features by or with Peter Dreier
on

Bill Moyers Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers; June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator. Under the Johnson administration he served from 1965 to 1967 as the eleventh White House Press Secretary. He was a director of the Council ...

' website
Features by Peter Dreier
on '' Yes!'' magazine online
Content by Peter Dreier
on the "LA Progressive" digital news site {{DEFAULTSORT:Dreier, Peter 1948 births Living people American political scientists Jewish American academics Jewish socialists Members of the Democratic Socialists of America Occidental College faculty S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumni Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Chicago alumni

Education

Career

Selected works

See also

References

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