Margaret Levi

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Margaret Anne Levi (born March 5, 1947 ) is an American political scientist at Stanford University . She practices comparative political economy and has made a contribution to understanding the conditions under which citizens accept state coercion (e.g. taxes or laws) - and under which conditions they do not. In doing so, she combined theoretical considerations with historical knowledge.

Life

Lewi earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University . In the same year she became a faculty member at the University of Washington , and in 2007 she retired . From 2009 to 2013 she was Professor of American Politics at the University of Sydney . Levi has been the director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University since 2014 . She is also Professor Emeritus of International Studies at the University of Washington.

In 2001 Levi was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 2015 to the National Academy of Sciences , and 2018 to the American Philosophical Society . In 2002 she had a Guggenheim scholarship . In 2004/2005 she was President of the American Political Science Association . In 2018 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Carlos III ( Madrid ). In 2019, Levi was awarded the Skytte Prize (Skytteanska priset) for political science.

She was or is co-editor of Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics and Annual Review of Political Science. According to Google Scholar , Levi (as of April 2019) has an h-index of 42.

Margaret Levi is married to Robert Kaplan. The couple collects Aboriginal art and has made significant loans to various art museums ( Seattle Art Museum , Metropolitan Museum of Art ).

Fonts

  • Bureaucratic Insurgency: The Case of Police Unions (Lexington, 1977)
  • Of Rule and Revenue (University of California Press, 1988)
  • As editor: Marxism (Edward Elgar, 1991)
  • Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
  • Analytic Narratives (Princeton University Press, 1998)
  • Cooperation Without Trust? (Russell Sage, 2005)
  • With John Ahlquist: In the Interest of Others (Princeton, 2013)
  • As editor: Labor Standards in International Supply Chains (Edward Elgar, 2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter L. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed April 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Margaret Levi. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , accessed April 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Margaret Levi. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed April 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Dr. Margaret Levi. In: amphilsoc.org. American Philosophical Society , accessed April 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Margaret Levi. In: gf.org. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, accessed April 20, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Johan Skytte Prize. In: skytteprize.com. Accessed April 20, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Margaret Levi. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar , accessed April 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Levi, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levi, Margaret A .; Levi, Margaret Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1947