Adam Przeworski | |
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Born | Warsaw, Poland | 5 May 1940
Nationality | Polish, American |
Children | Molly Przeworski |
Relatives | Andrzej Przeworski (uncle) |
Awards | National Academy of Sciences (2021) Johan Skytte Prize (2010) Woodrow Wilson Prize (2001) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Warsaw Northwestern University |
Influences | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political science |
Sub-discipline | Comparative politics |
School or tradition | September Group |
Institutions | |
Doctoral students | Fernando Limongi, Stathis Kalyvas, Jack Knight |
Main interests | Democracy, Democratization, Capitalism |
Adam Przeworski (Polish: [pʂɛˈvɔrskʲi]; born May 5, 1940) is a Polish-American professor of political science specializing in comparative politics. He is Carroll and Milton Professor Emeritus in the Department of Politics of New York University. He is a scholar of democratic societies, theory of democracy, social democracy and political economy, as well as an early proponent of rational choice theory in political science.[1]