Professor Abbott teaches the history of political thought, American political culture and presidential studies. He has written eleven books, most recently The Challenge of the American Presidency (2004), Exceptional America (1998) and Strong Presidents: A Theory of Leadership (l996). He has published articles in the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Political Research Quarterly, Polity, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and the Review of Politics. Professor Abbott received the Presidents Award for Teaching in l990 and the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Fellowship (l991). He was elected to the WSU Academy of Scholars in l996 and has been Visiting Professor in Political Science at the University of Salford, UK (l994-95) and held the Fulbright Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Studies, University of Amsterdam in l997. In 2005 he was named University Distinguished Professor.
OFFICE ADDRESS: 2067 Faculty Administration Building
OFFICE TELEPHONE: (313) 577-6345; 2630
DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE: Department of Political Science, Liberal Arts and Sciences
PRESENT RANK & DATE: Professor, 1980
WSU Appointment History:
Year Appointed: Rank: Assistant Professor, September, 1970-75
Year Awarded Tenure: 1975
Year Promoted: Associate, 1975; Full, 1980
Other Positions:
Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Salford, Salford, England, l994-95
Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, l997
Fulbright Professorship, Hong Kong Baptist University, 2004 (deferred)
EDUCATION:
Baccalaureate: American University, Washington D.C., June, 1966 (with honors)
Graduate: M.A. Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, New Jersey, June, 1967
Ph.D. Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 1971
HONORS/AWARDS:
Distinguished University Professor, 2005
Graduate Mentor Award, 2005
WSU Academy of Scholars, elected l996
Distinguished Graduate Professor Award, 1991
Michigan Association of Governing Board
1991 Higher Education Award
President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1990
Charles Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, 1989-90
WSU Board of Governors, Faculty Recognition Award, 1988
WSU Board of Governors, Faculty Recognition Award, 1981
Ford Foundation Fellow in Political Science, 1972-73
TEACHING:
Undergraduate:
PS 3530 (Great Political Thinkers)
PS 5510 (American Political Thought)
Honors 4210 (The Politics of Utopia)
PS 3050 (Politics of the Presidency)
Graduate:
PS 7050 (American Political Culture)
PS 8600 (Philosophical Problems of Inquiry)
PS 755 (Topics in the History of Political Thought)
AS 500 Contemporary American Political Culture (University of Amsterdam);
CH 700 Democratic Theory (University of salford
PS 7450 American Political Institutions: The Presidency
RESEARCH:
Fellowships/Grants/Special Awards
Research and Inquiry Grant Award, College of LA, WSU, 2003, $3900
Earhart Foundation Research Award, 2004, $7000
Research and Inquiry Grant Award, College of LA, WSU, 2001, $2500
Humanities Center, WSU, 2000, $8,000
Research and Inquiry Grant Award, College of LA, WSU, 1999, $8000
Richard J. Barber Fund, l997, $20,868
Humanities Center, WSU, l996, $7,000
Earhart Foundation Research Award, 1993, $6400
American Philosophical Society Research Grant,
1990, $1250
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Grant, 1989, $750
WSU Center for Urban Studies, 1988, $5700
Earhart Foundation Fellow, 1986
WSU Small Grant Award, 1986, $500; 1988, $600; 1989; $600;
1990, $600; 1992, $650; l995; $650; 1998, $700; 1999, $1000, 2002, $1000
Canadian Embassy Faculty Enrichment Award, 1984, $5000 Earhart Foundation Research Award, 1982-83, $7000
Publications:
Books
The Challenge of the American Presidency (Waveland Press, 2004)
Exceptional America: Newness and National Identity (Peter Lang Publishers, l999)
Strong Presidents: Leadership in the American Political Tradition
(University of Tennessee Press, l996)
Leftward Ho! V.F. Calverton and American Radicalism (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993)
Political Thought in America: Conversations and Debates
(Chicago: Peacock Press, 1991)—second, revised edition,
Waveland Press, l998; third revised edition, 2005.
The Exemplary Presidency: FDR and the American Political Tradition (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990)
States of Perfect Freedom: Autobiography and American Political Thought (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987)
Seeking Many Inventions: The Idea of Community in America
(Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1987)
The Family on Trial: Special Relationships in Modern Political Thought (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981)
Furious Fancies: American Political Thought in the Post-Liberal Era (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980)
The Shotgun Behind the Door: Liberalism and the Problem of Political Obligation (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1976)
Chapters in Books
“Still Louis Hartz After All These Years: A Defense of the Liberal Society Thesis,” in Paul Roazen, ed., The Legacy of Louis Hartz (New York: Lexington, forthcoming, 2006)
“Utopians at Play” in Walter Edwards, et. al., eds., Remapping the Humanities: Identity, Memory and Community (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press) forthcoming, 2005.
(Co-author) “The Theory and Practice of Presidential Rhetoric” in Martin Medhurst, ed., The State of the Presidency (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press) forthcoming, 2005
(Co-author) “The Electoral College in Historical Context” in Paul Schumaker and Burdette Loomis, eds., Choosing a President: The Electoral College and Beyond (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 2002), pp. 31-52
“The Lincoln Propositions and the Legacy of Secession” in Percy B. Lehning, ed., Between ‘demos’ and ‘ethnos’: Theories of Secession (London: Routledge, l998), pp. 182-207
"Storytelling as Political Theory" in Susan Hinchman, ed. Memory,
Identity, Community: The Idea of Narrative in the Human Science
(New York: State University of New York Press, 1997), pp. 281-306
“Reagan’s FDR: (Re)Constructing the New Deal Memory” in Eric Schmertz, et al., eds. Ronald Reagan’s America (Greenwood Press, 1997), pp. 673-82
“Prudent Archery: FDR’s Lincoln” in William Peden and Frank Williams, ed., The Contemporary Lincoln (Campbell, CA:
Woodbridge Publishing Co., 1995), pp. 14-49
Editorships of Books
The Many Faces of Patriotism, accepted for publication (forthcoming, Rowman Littlefield, 2006)
(Co-editor) The Liberal Future in America. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985)
(co-editor) Reflections in American Political Thought.(New York: Crowell, 1973)
Journal Articles
“‘A ‘Long and Winding Road’: Bill Clinton and the 1960s,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, (Spring, 2006), pp. 1-20
“‘Accidental Presidents’: Death, Assassination, Resignation and Democratic Succession,” Presidential Studies Quarterly (Spring, 2006), pp. 627-45
“Still Louis Hartz After All These Years: A Defense of the Liberal Society Thesis,” Perspectives on Politics (March, 2005), pp. 93-109.
“Do Utopians Know How to Play?” Journal of Utopian Studies (Winter, 2005), pp. 44-62.
“Borges’ Encyclopedia and Classification in Presidential Studies,” Presidential Studies Quarterly. December, 2004), pp. 709-31.
“The Political Theory and the Case of the Untrustworthy Narrator: Sigmund Freud’s Dora and Louis Hartz’ The Liberal Tradition in America,” Soundings, (Winter, 2003), pp. 419-447
(co-author) “The Social Construction of a Legitimate Presidency,” Studies in American Political Development, (Fall, 2002), pp. 208-230
“Eisenhower, King Utopus and the Fifties Decade in America,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, (March 2002), pp. 7-29
“Big Theories and Policy Counsel: James Burnham, and Francis Fukuyama and the Cold War,” Journal of Policy History, Fall, 2002, pp. 417-30
“Utopian Problem Solving: The ‘Great Divorce’ and the Secession Question,” Journal of Politics (Spring, 2000), pp. 511-33
“Utopia by Hypnosis: V. F. Calverton’s The Man Inside and American Radicalism in the 1930s,” Journal of Utopian Studies (Spring, 2000), pp. 70-88
"The Declaration of Independence from Philadelphia to Gettysburg to Birmingham," Amerikastudien/American Studies (December, l997), pp. 451-69
“Leadership by Exemplar: Reagan’s FDR and Thatcher’s Churchill” Presidential Studies Quarterly (Spring, l997), pp. 186-206
"What's New in the Federalist Papers: Publius' Storytelling" Political Research Quarterly (Fall, l996), pp. 525-45
“The Lincoln Propositions and the Spirit of Secession” Studies in American Political Development (Spring, l996), pp. 103-29
"Redeeming American Exceptionalism/Redeeming American Political Science" Social Science Journal (Summer, 1995), pp. 219-34
"Are Three Generations of Radicals Enough? Self-Critique in the Novels of Tess Slesinger, Mary McCarthy and Marge Piercy" Review of Politics (Fall, 1991), pp. 602-626.
"Political Theory and Story Telling," Soundings (Fall/Winter, 1991), pp. 369-397.
"Do Presidents Talk Too Much? The Rhetorical Presidency and its Alternative," Presidential Studies Quarterly (Spring, 1988), pp. 347-362.
"Henry David Thoreau, The State of Nature and the Redemption of Liberalism," Journal of Politics (February, 1985), pp. 182-208.
"The Enlightenment Legacy of the New Left," Polity (Summer, 1983), pp. 630-640.
"On Amy Gutmann's 'Moral Philosophy and Political Problems'," Political Theory (November, 1982), pp. 606-610.
"The Character of Recent American Political Thought," Canadian Journal of Political Science (June, 1981), pp. 377-396.
"The Three Families of Thomas Hobbes," Review of Politics (April, 1981), pp. 242-258.
"On Wertheimer's 'A Reply to Abbott'," Political Theory (February, 1979), pp. 139-141.
"The Philosophers and the Abortion Question," Political Theory (August, 1978), pp. 313-335.
"Understanding America and the New Conservatives," Polity (Fall, 1978), pp. 260-273.
"With Equality and Virtue for All: John Rawls and the Liberal Tradition," Polity (March, 1976), pp. 340-357.
"The Tyranny of Fraternity in McWilliams’ America," Political Theory (August, 1974), pp. 304-320
Review Articles
“Populism,” in William A. Darity, ed., International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd. ed. (New York: Macmillan, forthcoming, 2007)
“Theories of Secession” in James W. Ely, Jr., ed., The Oxford Companion to American Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 726-34
“Henry J. Morganthau and US Foreign Policy,” Ole Holstoi, et. al., Encyclopedia of US Foreign Relations (NY: Oxford University Press), l997
“Lincoln, Hartz and the Liberal Tradition,” Review of Politics (Winter, l995), pp. 49-53
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Politics of Leadership" in Joel Krieger, ed., The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)--second edition, 2001
"Invention and Technological Change" in William Outwaite and Tom Bottomore, eds., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Social Thought (London: Basil Blackwell, 1992)—revised, second edition, 2002
"The Childhood, Family and the Bureaucratic Alternative in America," Public Administration Review (January-February, 1983), pp. 89-97
Book Reviews
Jeffrey H. Morrison .John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic in Pesrpectives on Politics, 2006
Mark Warschauer, Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide in Journal of Utopian Studies (2005)
John G. Gunnell, Imaging the American Polity: Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy in Journal of American History (2004)
James A. Morone, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History in Perspectives on Politics (2004)
Peter Dennis Bathory and Nancy L. Schwartz , eds., Friends and Citizens: Essays in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams in American Political Science Review (2002)
Rogan Kersh, Dreams of a More Perfect Union in Journal of Utopian Studies (2002)
Eric Higgs, Andrew Light and David Strong, eds., Technology and the Good Life? in Journal of Utopian Studies ( 2001)
Ariela J. Cross, Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the antebellum Courtroom in The Historian (2001)
Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohforth, On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left in Journal of Utopian Studies (Fall, 2001), pp. 264-65
Ronald Dworkin, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality in Rhetoric and Public Affairs (Spring, 2000)
Robert Booth Fowler, Enduring Liberalism: American Political Thought Since the 1960s in H-Pol (June, 2000)
Mark E. Warren, ed. Democracy and Trust in Journal of Politics (Spring, 2000)
Russell L. Riley, The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2000)
Edo van Belkom, Northern Dreamers in Utopian Studies Journal (Fall, 1999), pp. 325-26
Mark Tunick, Practices and Principles: Approaches to Ethical and Legal Judgment in Journal of Politics (May, 1999
Karol Edward Soltan and Stephen L. Elkin, eds., The Constitution of Good Societies in Utopian Studies Journal (Fall, l998
Michael Barkin, ed., Millennialism and Violence in Utopian Studies Journal (Spring, l998)
Joshua I. Miller, Democratic Temperament: The Legacy of William James in Journal of Politics (May, l9980
Harold Loeb, Life in a Technocracy in Utopian Studies Journal (Spring, l997)
Barbara Goodwin, Justice by Lottery in Utopian Studies Journal (Winter, l997)
Howard Segal, Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America in Utopian Studies Journal (Winter, l997)
Murray Edelman, From Art to Politics in Review of Politics (Winter, l996)
Sally M. Promey, Spiritual Spectacles : Visions & Image in 19th Century Shakerism. in Utopian Studies Journal (Winter, 1995)
Glen A. Phelps, George Washington and the American Tradition. in Social Science Quarterly March, 1995)
Donald S. Lutz, A Preface to American Political Theory in Journal of Politics (November, 1993.
Patrick Garry, Liberalism and the American Identity in Journal of American History (June, 1993)
Robert Booth Fowler, The Dance With Community :The Current Debate in American Political Thought in Journal of Politics (August, 1992
Ira C. Mandelker, Religion, Society and Utopia in Nineteenth Century America. in Utopian Studies Journal , (Fall, 1992),
William S. Graebner, The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s. in Journal of American History (March, 1992)
Yeager Hudson and Creighton Peden, eds. Philosophical Essays on the Ideals of a Good Society. in Utopian Studies Journal (Fall, 1991)
William W. Keller, The Liberals and J. Edgar Hoover: The Rise and Fall of a Domestic Security State. in American Studies
(Spring, 1991)
Jon Roper, Democracy and its Critics: Anglo American Democratic Thought in the Nineteenth Century. in American Studies (Fall, 1990)
Christopher Kelly, Exemplary Lives: Rousseau's Confessions as Political Philosophy. in Journal of Politics (August, 1988),
John Dunn, Rethinking Modern Political Theory, Essays, 1979- 1983). in Political Theory (Fall, 1986)
Gilbert Steiner, Pluralism and the American Family. in Urban Affairs Quarterly (December, 1982)
A. John Simmons, Moral Principles and Political Obligations.
in Political Theory (November, 1980)
Richard Flathman, Political Obligation in Political Theory . (February, 1973)
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