Ronald Herring

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Ronald J. Herring (* 1947 ) is an American political scientist .

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Herring studied economics at the University of Texas at Austin from 1965 to 1969 . An MA (1971) and a Ph.D. (1976) in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison . From 1977 to 1991 he taught at Northwestern University , since 1991 he has been a professor at Cornell University . From 1996 to 2002 he was Director of the Einaudi Center at Cornell University and John S. Knight Professor of International Studies.

Herring has mainly done research in and on South Asia . His research areas are agricultural political economy and reform, ethnicity and conflict, political ecology and development, and social conflicts around science and green genetic engineering . He was chairman of Cornell's Department of Government and executive director of Title VI National Resource Center for South Asia.

Publications (selection)

As an author
  • Land to the Tiller: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia . Yale University Press, 1983, ISBN 0-300-02725-7 .
  • Guaranteeing employment to the rural poor: Social functions and class interests in the employment guarantee scheme in Western India . In: World Development Volume 11, 1983, pp. 575-592. - with Rex M. Edwards
  • GMOs, NGOs, Farmers, and the State . In: Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. ISBN 0-7425-3842-7 .
  • Why did "Operation Cremate Monsanto" fail? Science and Class in India's Great Terminator-Technology Hoax . In: Critical Asian Studies . Volume 38, 2006, pp. 467-493, (PDF; 377 kB) .
  • The genomics revolution and development studies: Science, poverty and politics . In: Journal of Development Studies . Volume 43, 2007, pp. 1–30, (PDF; 216 kB) .
  • Stealth Seeds: Bioproperty, Biosafety, Biopolitics . In: Journal of Development Studies . Volume 43, 2007, pp. 130–157, (PDF; 316 kB) .
  • Transgenics and the Poor: Biotechnology in Development Studies (first in: Journal of Development Studies ), Taylor and Francis, 2008. ISBN 0-415-46876-0 , ISBN 978-0-415-46876-3 . Awarded the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize in 2008
As editor
  • Carrots, Sticks, and Ethnic Conflict: Rethinking Development Assistance . University of Michigan Press, 2001, ISBN 0-472-11177-9 . - with Milton J. Esman

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Intro to public lecture / Ron Herring ( PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: dead link / oregonstate.edu  
  2. ↑ einaudi.cornell.edu: Our Directors - Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

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personal data
SURNAME Herring, Ronald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herring, Ronald J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947