ANDREW J. POLSKY
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284 Kent Place Boulevard Department of Political Science
Summit, NJ 07901 Hunter College, CUNY
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New York, NY 10021
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http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~apolsky
Professional Experience
Teaching:
Professor, Department of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY, and Ph.D./MA Program in Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2005-present. (On leave, Fall 2007; 2009-2010; 2010-2011)
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY, and Ph.D./MA Program in Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY, 19912004. (On leave, 1999-2000.)
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Hunter College, 19841990. (On leave, 198889.)
Adjunct Instructor, Baruch College, CUNY, 1984; John Jay College, CUNY, 19831984; Barnard College, 1982.
Lecturer, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 19811982.
Administrative:
Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, Hunter College, 2008-2009.
Chair, Department of Political Science, Hunter College, 1993-1996.
Director, Social Science Institute, Diamond Fellowship/CUNY Pipeline Program (for prospective minority scholars), CUNY, 19931994.
Current Teaching Fields
American Politics: American Government survey (undergraduate and graduate); American Political Development; American Political Economy; Presidency; Political Parties and Interest Groups.
Political Theory: American Political Thought.
Books
Andrew J. Polsky, The Rise of the Therapeutic State (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991).
Articles and Book Chapters
William D. Adler and Andrew J. Polsky, “Building the New American Nation: Economic Development, Public Goods, and the Early U.S. Army,” Political Science Quarterly 125 (1) (Spring 2010): 87-110. (Refereed)
Andrew J. Polsky, “Staying the Course: Presidential Leadership, Military Stalemate, and Strategic Inertia,” Perspectives in Politics 8 (1) (March 2010): 127-39. (Refereed)
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Articles and Book Chapters (Continued)
______, “Elections in American Political Development,” in Daniel J. Tichenor and Richard A. Harris, eds., A History of the U.S. Political System: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions , volume 2 (Boulder, CO: ABC-CLIO, 2010), pp. 53-65.
______, “The Presidency at War: Unchecked Power, Uncertain Leadership,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System, 9th ed. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2009), pp. 489-508.
, “Living with Path Dependence,” Polity 40 (4) (October 2008): 551-56.
Andrew J. Polsky and William D. Adler, “The State in a Blue Uniform,” Polity 40 (3) (July 2008): 348-54.
Andrew J. Polsky, “Collective Inaction: Presidents, Congress, and Unpopular Wars,” Extensions (Spring 2008): 4-8.
, “Seeing Your Name in Print: Unpacking the Mysteries of the Review Process at Political Science Scholarly Journals,” PS: Political Science and Politics 40 (3) (July 2007): 539-43. (Refereed). Reprinted in Stephen Yoder, ed., Publishing Political Science: APSA Guide to Writing and Publishing (Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 2008), pp. 197-211.
, “The Presidency at War,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System, 8th ed. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2006), pp. 557-75.
, “No Tool is Perfect: Periodization in the Study of American Political Development,” Polity 37 (4) (October 2005): 523-30.
Daniel M. Cook and Andrew J. Polsky, “Political Time Reconsidered: Unbuilding and Rebuilding the State under the Reagan Administration,” American Politics Research 33 (4) (July 2005): 577-605. (Refereed)
Andrew J. Polsky and Olesya Tkacheva, “Legacies versus Politics: Herbert Hoover, Partisan Conflict, and the Symbolic Appeal of Associationalism in the 1920s,” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 16 (2) (Winter 2002): 207-35. (Refereed)
, “‘Mr. Lincoln’s Army’ Revisited: Partisanship, Institutional Position, and Union Army Command, 1861-1865,” Studies in American Political Development 16 (2) (Fall 2002): 176-207. (Refereed)
, “When Business Speaks: Political Entrepreneurship, Discourse, and Mobilization in American Partisan Regimes,” Journal of Theoretical Politics 12 (4) (October 2000): 451-72. (Refereed)
, “The New ‘Dismal Science’? The Lessons of American Political Development for Politics Today,” Polity 32 (3) (Spring 2000): 413-18. (Forum organizer and participant)
, “The 1996 Elections and the Logic of Regime Politics,” Polity 30 (1) (Fall 1997): 153-66. (Invited forum participant)
, “Giving Business the Business,” Dissent (Winter 1996): 33-36.
, “The Odyssey of the Juvenile Court: Policy Failure and Institutional Persistence in the Therapeutic State,” Studies in American Political Development 3 (1989): 15798. (Refereed)
, “Jane Jacobs and the Limits of Urban Capitalism,” Urban Resources 5 (Fall 1988): 914, 24. (Refereed)
, “Welfare Policy: Why the Past Has No Future,” democracy 3 (Winter 1983): 2133.
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Articles and Book Chapters (Continued)
, “Political Parties and the New Corporatism,” democracy 2 (July 1982): 4251.
Review Essays
Andrew J. Polsky, “The Political Economy of Partisan Regimes: Lessons from Two Republican Eras,” Polity 35 (4) (July 2003): 595-612. (Refereed)
, “Why Regimes? Ideas, Incentives, and Policies in American Political Orders,” Polity 29 (4) (Summer 1997): 625-40.
, “Welfare State History: The Limits of the New” and “A Reply to the Authors,” Journal of Policy History 7 (4) (1995): 4963 and 7174, respectively.
, “A Dissent from the New Welfare Consensus,” Journal of the American Planning Association 55 (Summer 1989): 37174.
, “New York City: Managing Without Democracy,” democracy 1 (July 1981): 10922.
Reviews
Andrew J. Polsky, review of Suzanne Mettler, Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation, in Perspectives on Politics 5 (3) (September 2007): 644-645.
, review of Peter F. Nardulli, ed., The Constitution and American Political Development, in Journal of Politics 55 (3) (August 1993): 81214.
, “Urban Prospects and the Political Imperative,” Urban Resources 2 (Fall 1984): 4548. [Review of John Mollenkopf, The Contested City.]
Dissertation
“The Origin of Welfare Policy: A Study in the Organization of Power.”
Supervisors: Sheldon S. Wolin and Duane Lockard.
Ph.D. Awarded, Princeton University, October 1984.
Papers
Andrew J. Polsky, “Partisan Regimes in American Politics,” 2009 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, CA.
______, “Staying the Course: Presidential Leadership, Military Stalemate, and Strategic Inertia,” 2007 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
William Adler and Andrew J. Polsky, “Collective Action, Economic Development, and the Early National Security State,” 2006 APSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Andrew J. Polsky, “The Presidency at War,” 2004 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Daniel M. Cook and Andrew J. Polsky, “The First Order of Business: Regime Change, the Reagan Administration, and Remaking the State,” 2003 APSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Andrew J. Polsky, “A Theory of American Partisan Regimes,” Philadelphia American Politics Research Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November 1, 2002.
, “A Theory of American Partisan Regimes,” Twentieth Century Workshop of the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, April 5, 2002.
, “A Theory of American Partisan Regimes,” 2001 APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
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Papers (continued)
, “‘Mr. Lincoln’s Army’ Revisited: Partisanship, Institutional Position, and Union Army Command, 1861-1865,” New York Colloquium on American Political Development, CUNY Graduate Center, November 29, 2000.
, “The 1996 Elections and the Logic of Regime Politics,” 1996 Northeastern Political Science Association [NPSA] Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
, “Political Regimes and American Business: Incorporation, Disaffection, and Opposition,” 1996 APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
, “The Fate of Ideas: Economic Vision, Party Regimes, and American Institutional Development,” 1992 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
, “Clean Hands in Dirty Systems: Unanticipated Consequences of Reform in the Human Services,” Working Paper No. 4, the Robert F. Wagner, Sr. Institute of Urban Public Policy, November 1989.
, “Curing the Plague of Politics: The Struggle Against Localism in the Early Welfare State,” 1989 APSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
, “Philanthropic Ideology and State Power: The Therapeutic Impulse in Progressive Welfare Policy,” Conference Group on Political Economy, 1986 APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
, “Instrumental Knowledge and the Pursuit of Power: The Perpetual Crisis of the Human Services,” 1986 APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
, “Experts and Clients: The Bureaucratic Reconstruction of Citizenship,” 1985 Conference on Critical Perspectives in Organizational Analysis, Baruch College, CUNY.
, “The Administered Citizen,” 1983 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
, “The Making of the Administered Citizen: Social Class, Political Membership, and Progressive Reform,” 1982 NPSA Annual Meeting, New Haven, CT.
, “The Political Function of Social Science: American Sociology and the Origin of Welfare Policy,” 1982 APSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Scholarly Activities
Lecture. “Partisan Regimes in American Politics.” Rockefeller College Seminar Series, SUNY Albany, April 22, 2009.
Lecture. “Presidents at War: Unchecked Power, Uncertain Leadership, and the Limits of Choice.” Williams College, April 21, 2009.
Co-Chair. Workshop. “Publishing in a Professional Journal,” 2008 NPSA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Lecture. “The Presidency at War: Unchecked Power and the Burden of Presidential Leadership,” 2008 Institute in American Politics and Political Thought for [International] Higher Education Faculty, University of Massachusetts.
Co-Chair. Workshop. “Publishing in a Professional Journal,” 2007 NPSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Participant. Roundtable. “Politics, History, and the State of the State as a Conceptual Variable,” 2007 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Lecture. “The Presidency at War, 1787-2006: Unchecked Power and Political Risk,” 2007 Institute in American Politics and Political Thought for [International] Higher Education Faculty, CUNY Graduate Center, July 6, 2007.
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Scholarly Activities (continued)
Lecture. “The Presidency at War, 1787-2006: Unchecked Power and Political Risk,” Temple Sinai, Summit, NJ, April 20, 2006.
Chair. “Democrats, Republicans, and Movements in APD,” 2006 APSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Participant. Roundtable. “Getting Published in Political Science,” 2006 APSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Lecture. “The Presidency at War, 1787-2006: Unchecked Power and Political Risk,” 2006 Institute in American Politics and Political Thought for [International] Higher Education Faculty, University of Massachusetts, June 28, 2006.
Discussant. Panel, “Understanding the Policy Process,” 2006 Policy History Conference, Charlottesville, VA.
Lecture. “The Presidency at War, 1787-2006: Unchecked Power and Political Risk,” TIAA-CREF Outstanding Faculty Lecture, Hunter College, CUNY, May 10, 2006.
Participant. Roundtable, “Publishing in Political Science,” 2006 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Lecture. “Twentieth Century Wars and the Growth in the American Presidency,” 2005 Institute in American Politics and Political Thought for [International] Higher Education Faculty, University of Massachusetts, F.I.T., New York, July 22, 2005.
Participant. Roundtable, “Periodization in American Political Development,” 2004 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Moderator. Panel, “Race, Slavery, and the Civil War: Preserving the Continental Order,” The Rise to Globalism: Ideas, Institutions, and American Political Development, Fulbright American Studies Institute, CUNY Graduate Center, July 3, 2003.
Discussant. Panel, “Parties and Interest Groups in American History,” 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Chair and Participant. Roundtable, “‘Mr. President, If You had Read My Book’...: What (If Anything) Political History Can Teach Leaders and Citizens Today,” 1999 APSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Discussant (substitute). Panel, “Building the Old American State,” 1999 APSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Chair and Discussant. Panel, “Political Culture as a Historical Outcome: Conflicts, Institutions, and Interests,” 1998 APSA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Discussant. Panel, “Regimes and Orders in American Political Development,” 1997 APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Chair and Discussant (substitute). Roundtable on Ian Lustick's Unsettled States/Disputed Lands, 1996 APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Discussant. Panel, “Policy History: The Administrative State and Regulation,” 1994 APSA Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Chair and Discussant. Panel, “Ideas and Institutions in Social Policy Formation,” 1993 APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Chair and Discussant. Panel, “Political Theory and Political History,” 1990 CUNY Annual Political Science Conference, New York, NY.
Lecture. “Clean Hands in Dirty Systems: Unanticipated Consequences of Reform in the Human Services,” Political Science Forum, CUNY Political Science Graduate Program, 1989.
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Scholarly Activities (continued)
Chair and Discussant. Panel, “Justice and Liberalism in Contemporary Political Thought,” 1988 CUNY Annual Political Science Conference, New York, NY.
Chair. Panel, “Expertise and the Organization of Power,” 1986 APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Lecture. “Class Conflict and Philanthropy: Building the American State in the 19th Century,” Political Science Forum, CUNY Political Science Graduate Program, 1986.
Participant. Roundtable, “Koch III and After,” 1985 CUNY Annual Political Science Conference.
Participant. Roundtable, “Reindustrialization: Corporatism Within the Liberal State,” Conference Group on Political Economy, 1983 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Lecture. “The Administered Citizen,” 1983 Conference on "The Humanities and Public Policy: Fundamental Issues," Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Richmond, VA.
Graduate Teaching Experience (CUNY Graduate Center)
American Politics (core course).
American Political Development.
Undergraduate Teaching Experience (past five years)
American Government: A Historical Introduction.
The American Presidency.
American Political Thought.
The American Presidency at War.
Political Parties and Interest Groups.
Introduction to American Government.
American Political Development.
Dissertation Supervision, CUNY Ph.D. Program in Political Science
Sponsor: William D. Adler (in progress), Jennifer Hopper (in progress)
Reader: Victoria Allen, Alan Beck, Daniel M. Cook, Margaret Gray, Douglas Haugen, Christopher J. Malone, Laura McKenna, Richard Meagher, Melissa Pavone, Stephen Pimpare, Marriah Starr (in progress), Jean-Baptiste Velut.
Grants and Fellowships
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2007-2008.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2005-2006.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2004-2005.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2002-2003.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 1999-2000.
PSCCUNY Research Award, 1995-1996.
PSCCUNY Research Award, 1989-1990.
PSCCUNY Research Award, 1988-1989.
CUNY Scholar Incentive Award, Spring 1989.
Robert F. Wagner, Sr. Institute Award, Fall 1988.
PSCCUNY Creative Incentive Award, Summer 1987.
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Grants and Fellowships (continued)
Princeton University Graduate Fellowship, 19771981.
Awards and Honors
Northeastern Political Science Association 2009 Distinguished Service Award for Polity editorship.
Student Mentor Award, Ph.D. Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center, 2009.
TIAA-CREF Outstanding Faculty Lecturer, Hunter College, CUNY, 2006.
CUNY Performance Excellence Award, 1999.
American Political Science Association/Pi Sigma Alpha Outstanding Teaching Award, 1999.
Editorships
Editor, Polity, 2005-present.
Member, Editorial Board, Polity, 1999-2005.