Douglas Whiting Rae

Douglas Rae is the Richard Ely Professor of Political Science and Management and is affiliated with the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, and the Committee on Urban Studies. He has served on the Yale faculty since 1967, chairing the political science department during the 1980s.  He took public service leave in 1990 and 1991 to serve as chief administrative officer of New Haven during a crisis period. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, was a fellow of Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and has received numerous honors and prizes for his research. He has consulted widely and variously to the parliaments of Spain, Italy, & the Netherlands Antilles, select corporate leaders, to numerous American cities and universities, and to the BBC. He has been awarded the Hurfurth and Hallitt Prizes. His research concerns cities in capitalist settings, political ideas, business and economic history, competitive strategy. His research includes economic history & intellectual history bearing on the development and evolution of capitalism. In addition, he has focused on urban history, issues of distribution, inequality, perceived injustice, and electoral systems in modern states.