Professor Ted Lowi: “Bend Sinister: Searching for the Next American Republic” · Sold out

The average life of a republic is not long, and American history provides no exception. We are between republics today, and there is a bend in the road, on which Cornell Prof. Ted Lowi will address the Cornell Club of Washington.

Professor Lowi’s recent research and writing commitments include the politics of globalization, a critical history of the American Democratic party, and a long-term project with an Italian collaborator to develop a conceptual approach to political theory that is one part thesaurus/encyclopedia and one part methodology through use of the computer to develop a cross-tabulational approach to concepts. He is also completing, with colleague Isaac Kramnick, the Norton Anthology of American Political Thought. His leisure time is devoted, in collaboration with co-authors, to keeping two American government textbooks up to date.

Professor Lowi has been the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University since 1972. He received his doctorate at Yale in 1961, and served on the Cornell faculty from 1959 to 1965 and on the political science faculty at the University of Chicago between 1965 and 1972. His primary fields are American government, political institutions and public policy.