Political
Order in the Changing World: A Continuing Hiring Initiative
A
New Initiative in Political Science at Yale University
The Yale Political Science department
will continue to enlarge its ranks with a number of
scholars doing original research on the big questions
of political action and thought, design and disorder.
Searches are still open to all ranks. Our aim is to
appoint promising scholars who illuminate the political
universe in rigorous, systematic, and original ways.
The
searches will proceed in any of the five Initiative
areas detailed below. They are open with respect to
all traditional political science subfields and methodological
persuasions.
Order,
Conflict, and Violence
Possible concerns: revolution,
riots, civil war, genocide, international war and
peace; what makes conflict more or less violent; classical
theorists of order and conflict such as Thucydides,
Machiavelli, Hobbes, or Kant; the evolution of national;
non-national, or transnational political orders; the
politics of crime; the legitimation of order; or the
state as an instrument of political order.
Representation
and Popular Rule
Possible concerns: interest groups, political parties,
money in politics; taxation; mass media; subsidiarity
and transnational representation; redistricting and
group representation (based on ethnicity, race, gender,
or something else); failures of representation; demands
for secession and suburban white flight; mass political
action or the lack of it; preconditions for popular
rule; or classic insights on these questions, such
as those of Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, or Mill.
Distributive
Politics
Possible concerns: distributional foundations and
consequences of different regimes; capitalism and
democracy; interactions between global markets and
nation states; rights, entitlements, and welfare states;
collective action; normative theories of distributive
justice and positive theories of social choice, whether
classical or contemporary; or the global distribution
of goods and bads.
Identities,
Affiliations, and Allegiances
Possible concerns: the value of classic reflections
such as those of Hegel or Nietzsche; relevant contemporary
philosophical literature; the political psychology
of partisanship and ideology; ethnicity, race, class,
gender, nationalism, and religion as sources of political
attachment; immigration, displaced persons, refugees
and dual citizens; identities and allegiances in international
politics (what brings states together, keeps them
together, and drives them apart).
Crafting
and Operating Institutions
Possible concerns: political
institutions above and below the nation state and
their evolution; constitutional design and democratic
performance; the relevance of classics of institutional
choice (e.g. Plato, Machiavelli, The Federalist) or
contemporary analytic theory; parliamentism v. presidentialism,
bicameralism v. unicameralism; confederal, federal,
and unitary systems; components of institutional regimes
such as courts, legislatures, bureaucracies, and executives,
as well as their interactions; the political functions
of non-governmental organizations.
Send
applications (vitae, transcript, recommendations, and writing
samples) to:
Chair,
Department of Political Science
Yale University
P.O. Box 208301
New Haven, CT 06520-8301
Yale University is an
affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Yale
values diversity among its students, staff, and faculty
and especially welcomes applications from women and
underrepresented minority scholars.
