Department of Political Science
2040 Faculty/Administration Building
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 577-2630; L.Scaff@wayne.edu
EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley:
Ph.D., 1971
M.A., 1965
B.A., 1964 (with Distinction)
Oberlin College, 1961-63
University College of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1960-61
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Wayne State University, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, 1998-present
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Political Science, Professor, 1992-98
University of Arizona, Department of Political Science, Instructor (1969-71), Assistant
Professor (1971-77), Associate Professor (1977-89), Professor (1989-92), University
of Arizona Program in Florence, Italy, 1987
European University Institute, Florence, Italy, Summer School on the Sociological Classics
and Contemporary Politics, Visiting Professor, 1986
University of Freiburg, Germany, Seminar für Wissenschaftliche Politik, Fulbright Visiting
Professor, 1984-85
University of Düsseldorf, Germany, Historisches Seminar, Visiting Scholar, 1978
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Political Science, Instructor, 1968-69;
Teaching Assistant, 1965-67
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Wayne State University, 1998-2003
Head, Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1992-98
Acting Dean, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona, 1991-92
Associate Dean, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona, 1990-91
HONORS & AWARDS
Phi Beta Kappa
National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant for Travel to Collections, 1991
International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), Grant for Independent Short-Term Research, East Germany, 1989
University of Arizona, Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, Research Grant, 1989, 1991; Summer Research Stipend, 1986, 1990
Fulbright Senior Fellowship, Seminar für Wissenschaftliche Politik, University of Freiburg, 1984-85
University of Arizona Committee on Humanities, Research Grant, 1983
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend for Women's Studies Curriculum Project, University of Arizona, 1982
University of Arizona Foundation, Grant for Research at the Zentrales Staatsarchiv der DDR, Merseburg, 1979
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Research Fellowship, 1978
Fulbright Research Travel Grant, Historisches Seminar and Max-Weber-Edition, University of Düsseldorf, 1978
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1976
Graduate Fellowship, Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1967-68
BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS
Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in the Thought of Max Weber. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989; paperback edition, 1991. [Vilnius: Open Society Fund, 1995 (Lithuanian translation)].
Participation in the Western Political Tradition: A Study of Theory and Practice. Tucson: Institute of Government Research and University of Arizona Press, 1975.
ARTICLES & CHAPTERS
“Max Weber’s Reception in the United States, 1920-1960,” Das Faszinosum Max Weber. Die Geschichte seiner Geltung, ed. Karl-Ludwig Ay and Knut Borchardt. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck (forthcoming)
“Civil Society and Its Discontents: Reflections on the North American Experience,” Building Democracy and Civil Society East of the Elbe, ed. Sven Eliaeson. London: Routledge, 2006 (in press)
“The Creation of the Sacred Text: Talcott Parsons Translates ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,’” Max Weber Studies 5:2/6:1 (2005/6), 195-219 (in press)
“Weber, Art, and Social Theory,” Etica & Politica (Ethics & Politics) 6:2 (2005), at http://www.univ.trieste.it/~etica
“Remnants of Romanticism: Max Weber in Oklahoma and Indian Territory,” Journal of Classical Sociology 5:1 (March 2005), 53-72; also published, revised and enlarged, in The Protestant Ethic Turns 100: Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis, ed. William Swatos and Lutz Kaelber. Boulder: Paradigm, 2005, pp. 77-110.
“The Mind of the Modernist: Simmel on Time,” Time & Society 14:1 (2005), 5-23.
“Rationalization,” Encyclopedia of Social Theory, ed. George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2005, vol. II, pp. 624-28.
“Young Man Weber,” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 17:4 (Summer 2004), 605-16.
“Max Weber and the Social Sciences in America,” European Journal of Political Theory 3:2 (2004), 121-32.
“Neo-Weberian Approaches,” Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, ed. R. J. B. Jones. London: Routledge, 2001, vol. 2, p. 1124.
“Levine’s German Tradition: Consolations for the Sociologist,” The Sociological Quarterly 42:1 (Winter 2001), 93-99.
“Weber on the Cultural Situation of the Modern Age,” The Cambridge Companion to Max Weber, ed. S. Turner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 99-116.
“Georg Simmel,” Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists, ed. George Ritzer. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, pp. 251-78.
“Mannheim, ‘Distanzierung’ and Liberalism Today,” Karl Mannheims Analyse der Moderne, ed. M. Endress and I. Srubar. Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 2000, pp. 311-27.
“The ‘Cool Objectivity of Sociation’: Max Weber and Marianne Weber in America,” History of the Human Sciences 11:2 (May 1998), 61-82.
“Max Weber,” in Key Sociological Thinkers, ed. Rob Stones. London: Macmillan, 1998, pp. 34-45.
“Weber’s Amerikabild and the African-American Experience,” in Crosscurrents: African-Americans, Africa and Germany in the Modern World, ed. D.McBride, L.Hopkins, C. Blackshire-Belay. Columbia: Camden House, 1998, pp. 82-94.
“Geschichte und Historismus in der deutschen Tradition des politischen und ökonomischen Denkens,” in Historismus am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine internationale Diskussion, ed. Gunter Scholtz. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997, pp. 127-45 .
“Political Dialogue in the New Germany: The Burdens of Culture and an Asymmetrical Past,” in Political Dialogue: Theories and Practices (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, 46). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996, pp. 217-37 (co-author).
“Weber, Liberalism and Revolution,” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 9:4 (Summer 1996), 527-34. Reprinted in The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim and Weber: Applications and Analyses of Classical Sociological Theory by Modern Social Scientists, ed. R. Altschuler. New York: Gordian Knot Books, 1998, pp. 497-506.
“Sombart’s Politics,” in Werner Sombart (1863-1941)--Social Scientist, ed. Jürgen Backhaus. Marburg: Metropolis-Verlag, 1996, vol. 1, pp. 151-72.
“Social Theory, Rationalism, and the Architecture of the City: Fin-de-Siècle Thematics,” Theory, Culture & Society, 12 (May 1995), 63-85.
“Historism in the German Tradition of Social and Economic Thought or: What is Living and What is Dead in Historism,” in The Theory of Ethical Economy in the Historical School: Wilhelm Roscher, Lorenz von Stein, Gustav Schmoller, Wilhelm Dilthey and Contemporary Theory (Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy), ed. Peter Koslowski. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1995, pp. 313-34.
“Max Webers Begriff der Kultur,” in Max Webers Wissenschaftslehre, ed. Gerhard Wagner and Heinz Zipprian. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1994, pp. 678-99.
Review Essay: “Weber After Weberian Sociology,” Theory and Society, 22 (1993), 845-51.
“Life Contra Ratio: Music and Social Theory,” Sociological Theory, 11:2 (July 1993), 234-40.
“Europe and America in Search of Sociology: Reflections on a Partnership,” in Sociology in Europe: In Search of Identity, ed. Birgitta Nedelmann and Piotr Sztompka. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1993, pp. 213-23.
“Culture and Significance: Toward a Weberian Cultural Science,” Current Perspectives in Social Theory, ed. Ben Agger. Greenwich and London: JAI Press, 1991, vol. 11, pp. 97-116.
Review Essay: “Der Geist ist ein Wühler: Tenbrucks kulturgeschichtliche Betrachtungen,” Soziologische Revue, 14:1 (January 1991), 27-31.
“Modernity and the Tasks of a Sociology of Culture,” History of the Human Sciences, 3:1 (February 1990), 85-100.
“Georg Simmel’s Theory of Culture,” in Georg Simmel and Contemporary Sociology (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 119), ed. Michael Kaern et al. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990, pp. 283-296.
“Culture, Philosophy and Politics: The Formation of the Sociocultural Sciences in Germany,” History of the Human Sciences, 1:2 (October 1988), 221-43.
“Das Unbehagen im Weber-Kreis,”in Politik, Philosophie, Praxis: Festschrift für Wilhelm Hennis zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. Hans Maier et al. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta Verlag, 1988, pp. 174-88.
“From Silence to Voice: Reflections on Feminism in Political Theory,” in Changing Our Minds: Feminist Transformations of Knowledge, ed. Susan Aiken et al. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988, pp. 1-14.
“Weber, Simmel, and the Sociology of Culture,” The Sociological Review, 36:1 (February 1988), 1-30. Reprinted in Schools of Thought in Sociology, vol. 6: Formal Sociology: The Work of Georg Simmel, ed. L. Ray. London: Elgar, 1991; also in Georg Simmel: Critical Assessments 2, ed. David Frisby. London: Routledge, 1991, vol. 1, pp. 252-74. German version published as “Weber, Simmel und die Kultursoziologie,” Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 39:2 (June 1987), 255-77.
“Fleeing the Iron Cage: Politics and Culture in the Thought of Max Weber,” American Political Science Review, 81:3 (September 1987), 737-55.
“Politics, Policy, and Public Choice: A Critique and a Proposal,” Polity, 19 (Summer 1987), 613-36 (co-author).
“The Influence of Theory on What We See,” in The Politics of Program Evaluation, ed. D. J. Palumbo. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1987, pp. 235-48 (co-author).
“Replacing Confusion with Equity,” in New Courses for the Colorado, ed. G. Weatherford and F. L. Brown. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986, pp. 177-199 (co-author). Reprinted in A River Too Far: The Past and Future of the Arid West, ed. J. Finkhouse and M. Crawford. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1991, pp. 83-102.
“Class and the Theory of History: Marx on France and Weber on Russia,” in A Weber-Marx Dialogue, ed. R. J. Antonio and R. Glassman. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1985, pp. 190-214 (co-author).
“Legitimacy,” in The Social Science Encyclopedia, ed. A. Kuper and J. Kuper. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985, pp. 453-454; 2nd rev. ed. 1996, pp. 463-5; 3rd rev. ed. (forthcoming).
“Weber Before Weberian Sociology,” British Journal of Sociology, 35 (June 1984), 190-215. Reprinted in Reading Weber, ed. Keith Tribe. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1989, pp. 15-41.
“From Political Economy to Political Sociology: Max Weber’s Early Writings,” in Max Weber’s Political Sociology, ed. R. Glassman and V. Murvar. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984, pp. 83-107.
Communication: “On Richter, ‘Toward a Concept of Political Illegitimacy,’” Political Theory, 11 (February 1983), 133-135.
“Max Weber and Robert Michels,” American Journal of Sociology, 86 (May 1981), 1269-1286. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ed. Jennifer Baise. Farmington Hills: Gale, 1999.
Communication: “Bringing Politics Back In,” Journal of Politics, 42 (November 1980), 1155-1159.
“Conceptualizing Alienation: Reductionism and the Problem of Meaning,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 8 (September 1978), 241-260.
“Hume on Justice and the Original Contract,” Philosophical Studies, 33 (1978), 101-108.
“Participation and the Primacy of Politics in Development Theory,” in Political Participation in Latin America: Citizen and State, ed. J. Booth and M. Seligson. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1978, vol. I, pp. 43-57 (co-author).
“How Not To Do Political Theory: Nozick’s Apology for the Minimal State,” Arizona Law Review, 19 (1977), 193-211.
“Citizenship in America: Theories of the Founding,” in The Non-Lockean Roots of American Democratic Thought, ed. J. Chaudhuri. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1977, pp. 44-62.
Review Essay: “Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America,” Social Science Quarterly, 57 (June 1976), 214-217.
“The Use and Abuse of Politics,” Polity, 8 (Summer 1976), 529-557 (co-author).
“Two Concepts of Political Participation,” Western Political Quarterly, 28 (September 1975), 447-462.
“Max Weber’s Politics and Political Education,” American Political Science Review, 67 (March 1973), 128-141. Reprinted in Max Weber and the Fate of Politics, ed. Irving Velody and Peter Lassman. London: Unwin Hyman, 1991; in Max Weber: Critical Assessments (2), ed. Peter Hamilton. London: Routledge, 1991, vol. 1, pp. 162-82; in Ritsumeikan Social Science Review 38:2 (2002), 177-93 (Japanese translation); in Max Weber, ed. P. Lassman. London: Ashgate (forthcoming)
BOOK REVIEWS
Gert Albert, Agathe Bienfait, Steffen Sigmund and Claus Wendt, eds., Das Weber-Paradigma, in Max Weber Studies (forthcoming)
Georg Simmel, Essays on Religion, ed. and tr. H. J. Helle, in American Journal of Sociology, 104:1 (July 1998), 269-70.
Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley, eds., The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment, and J. P. Diggins, Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 34:3 (Summer 1998), 316-7.
Peter Breiner, Max Weber and Democratic Politics, in American Political Science Review, 91:3 (September 1997), 715-6.
David Kettler and Volker Meja, Karl Mannheim and the Crisis of Liberalism, in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 34:2 (May 1997), 218-9.
Max Weber, Briefe 1909-1910. Max Weber Gesamtausgabe II/6, ed. M. R. Lepsius and W. J. Mommsen, in Contemporary Sociology, 25:4 (July 1996), 469-71.
Melvin Richter, The History of Political and Social Concepts: A Critical Introduction, in American Journal of Sociology, 102:1 (July 1996), 261-3.
Stephen Kalberg, Max Weber’s Comparative-Historical Sociology, in Contemporary Sociology, 24 (January 1995), 132-3.
Gary A. Abraham, Max Weber and the Jewish Question, in American Journal of Sociology, 99 (November 1993), 820-2.
Ralph Schroeder, Max Weber and the Sociology of Culture, in Contemporary Sociology, 22 (September 1993), 753-4.
Wolfgang J. Mommsen, The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber, in History of the Human Sciences, 4 (1991), 308-10.
Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, tr. T. Burger and F. Lawrence; and The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians’ Debate, tr. S. Nicholsen, in American Political Science Review, 84 (September 1990), 967-68.
Josef Chytry, The Aesthetic State: A Quest in Modern German Thought, in The Journal of Politics, 52 (August 1990), 1008-10.
Dirk Käsler, Max Weber: An Introduction to His Life and Work, tr. Philippa Hurd, in Sociological Review, 37 (November 1989), 801-2.
William E. Connolly, Political Theory and Modernity, in American Political Science Review, 83 (December 1989), 1360-61.
Wilhelm Hennis, Max Weber, Essays in Reconstruction, trans. of Max Webers Fragestellung, in Political Theory, 17 (November 1989), 678-81.
Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Jürgen Osterhammel, eds., Max Weber and His Contemporaries, in The Sociological Review, 37 (1989), 144-46.
Michael L. Schwalbe, The Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor, in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 19 (June 1989), 229-31.
Max Weber, Die Lage der Landarbeiter im ostelbischen Deutschland. Max Weber Gesamtausgabe I/3, ed. Martin Riesebrodt, in Kölner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 38 (1986), 607-10.
Anthony T. Kronman, Max Weber, in Contemporary Sociology, 13 (1984), 61.
Gordon Marshall, In Search of the Spirit of Capitalism, An Essay on Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis, in Social Science Quarterly, 64 (September 1983), 678-79.
J. G. Merquior, Rousseau and Weber: Two Studies in the Theory of Legitimacy, in American Political Science Review, 75 (September 1981), 748-49.
Louis J. Halle, The Ideological Imagination, in American Political Science Review, 70 (December 1976), 1267-68.
David Beetham, Max Weber and the Theory of Modern Politics; and Wolfgang J. Mommsen, The Age of Bureaucracy, in Journal of Politics, 38 (February 1976), 180-82.
CONFERENCES AND PAPERS
“Weber’s Reception in the United States Before 1960,” paper presented at the conference, Das Faszinosum Max Weber: Die Geschichte seiner Geltung, Munich, 2004
“Remnants of Romanticism: Weber in Oklahoma and Indian Territory,” paper presented at the conference, Max Weber and the Spirit of Capitalism – One Hundred Years Later, London, 2004
“Max Weber and Economic Sociology,” paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, 2004
“Max Weber’s America,” paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2003
“Disenchantment or Reenchantment? Ambivalent Encounters in the Weber Circle,” paper presented at the German Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2002
“The ‘Communitarian’ Critique of ‘Liberal’ Civil Society: Reflections on the North American Debate,” paper presented at the First Edmund Mokrzycki Symposium: Building Civil Society and Democracy East of the Elbe, Central European University, Warsaw, 2002
“Max Weber and the Social Sciences in America,” paper presented at the Conference on Contested Legacies: The German-Speaking Intellectual and Cultural Emigration to the US and UK,” Bard College, New York, 2002
“Politics and the Order of Terror,” paper presented at the Humanities Center Speakers Series, Wayne State University, 2001
Chair, panel on Social Theory, Cultural Sociology and Postmodernism, Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, 2001
“Weber, Art, and Social Theory,” paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2000, and the Humanities Center Symposium, Wayne State University, 2000
“American Modernity: Weber’s Encounter with the United States,” paper presented at the British Sociological Society’s Max Weber Study Group, University of Derby, 1999
“The German Sociological Tradition,” paper present at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 1999
“Mannheim and the Problem of ‘Distance’ in Social Theory,” paper presented at the Conference on Karl Mannheim’s Approach to the Analysis of Modern Society, University of Erlangen, Germany, 1998
“Parsons and the Formation of Economic Sociology,” paper presented at the Conference on “A Legacy of ‘Verantwortungsethik: Talcott Parsons’ ‘Structure of Social Action’ after Sixty Years,” Heidelberg, Germany, 1997
“The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty and the German Tradition of Historism: Acton on the ‘Exceptionalism’ of the Anglo-American Tradition,” paper presented at the Conference on the History of Liberty, Nationalism, and the Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty in the Writings of Lord Acton, Hannover, Germany, 1996
“The Political Theory of the Expressive Self: An Essay on Politics and Aesthetics,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1995
“Engendering the Sociological Imagination: Marianne and Max Weber in America,” paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1995
“Weber’s Amerikabild and the African-American Experience,” paper presented at the Conference on Crosscurrents: African-Americans, Africa, and Germany in the Modern World, Pennsylvania State University, 1994
“History and Historicism in the German Tradition of Political and Economic Thought,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New York, 1994
“The Critique of Parties in the United States: Representation, Participation and Accountability,” paper presented at the Thirteenth World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany, 1994
“Rationalism, the Self, and the City at the Fin de Siècle,” paper presented at the Conference on the Fin de Siècle Phenomenon in Europe and America: Decadence and Decline or Innovation and Renewal, Gettysburg College, 1994
“Historism in the German Tradition of Social and Economic Thought,” paper presented at the Second SEEP-Conference on Economics and Ethics in the Historical School of Economics, Marienrode, Germany, 1994
“Democracy (De)mystified: Robert Michels and the Politics of the Intellectuals,” paper presented at the History of Science Society, Santa Fe, 1993
“Wissenschaft und Politik bei Karl Mannheim und Max Weber,” paper presented at the Conference on Karl Mannheim und seine Zeitgenossen, Budapest, 1993
“Max Weber’s America: Protestantism and Progressivism,” paper presented at the German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 1993
Chair, Panel on Public Policy Participation and Accountability, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1993
Chair, Panel on The Politics of Identity, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Pasadena, 1993
Chair, Panel on Hegelian and Post-Marxist Critiques of Civil Society, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1992
“Modernity and the Architecture of the City: Culture and Politics at the Fin de Siècle,” paper presented at the German Studies Association, Los Angeles, 1991
“Werner Sombart and the Politics of the Intellectuals,” paper presented at the Conference on Werner Sombart: Social Scientist, Heilbronn, Germany, 1991
“Modernity and the Desert City,” paper presented at the Symposium of Southwestern Desert Architecture and Community Design, Southwest Center and College of Architecture, University of Arizona, 1991
Chair, Panel on the Concept of Decline and Comparative Political Analysis, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1990
“Modernity and the Politics of Culture,” paper presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Newport Beach, 1990
“Modernity and the Tasks of a Sociology of Culture,” paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1989
“Critical Theory and Symbolic Interaction,” discussion presented at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1989
“The Public and Its Discourse: Weberian Critique or Pragmatist Corrective?” paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, 1989
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being and the Orders of Life,” Honors Seminar presentation, University of Kansas, 1989
“Georg Simmel: Some Reflections on His Sociology,” discussion for the panel on the Sociology of Georg Simmel, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 1988
Three Lectures on Politics and Culture, The European University Institute, Florence, 1987
“Politics in the ‘Age of Subjectivist Culture:’ Weber’s Thematic of the Modern,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1987
“Weber and the Left,” paper presented at the Max Weber Colloquium, Sixth Series, William Paterson College, New Jersey, 1986
“Culture and Its Discontents: The Weber Circle and the Problem of Modernity,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1986
“Weber, Simmel, and the Sociology of Culture,” paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, 1986
“Weber’s and Simmel’s Germany: Culture, Science, and Politics,” paper presented at the European University Institute, Florence, 1986
“Weber, Simmel und die Kulturwissenschaft,” paper presented at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Kassel, West Germany, 1986
“Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture and Politics in the Thought of Max Weber,” paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Des Moines, 1986
“Max Weber and Georg Simmel,” paper presented at the Department of Sociology Colloquium, University of Arizona, 1985
“Max Weber and His Age,” paper presented at the Istituto di Scienza Politica, University of Genoa, 1985
“Max Weber and Karl Marx,” paper presented at the University of Milan, 1985
“Politics, Policy, and Public Choice” (co-author), paper presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Sacramento, 1984
“Replacing Confusion with Equity” (co-author), paper presented to the Colorado River Working Symposium, Santa Fe, 1983
“Marx, Nietzsche, Weber,” paper presented at the Symposium on Ideological Issues in the Formation of the Social Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1983
Discussant, Panel on Political Theory and Liberal Democracy, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, 1983
“Kant or Marx? Philosophy and the Origins of Social Science,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Denver, 1982
Chair, Panel on Social Science and Politics: The Nineteenth Century Heritage, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Denver, 1982
Chair, Panel on Foundations in Political Theory, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, 1982
Chair, Panel on Marx and Weber, Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, 1982
“Weber Before Weberian Sociology,” paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Des Moines, 1982
“From Political Economy to Political Sociology: Weber’s Early Writings,” paper presented at the Max Weber Colloquium, Fourth Series, William Paterson College, New Jersey, 1980
“Social Science and Democratic Practice: Weber’s Revisionism,” paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1980
“Weber, Michels, and the Problem of Democracy,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1979
Discussant, Panel on Political Theory, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Phoenix, 1977
“Max Weber’s Political Theory,” paper presented at the Max Weber Colloquium, First Series, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 1977
Discussant, David Hume Bicentennial Symposium, University of Arizona, 1976
“Participation and the Primacy of Politics” (co-author), paper presented at the Conference on Participation in Latin America, San Antonio, 1976
“Operationalism in Political Science,” paper presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1976
“The Use and Abuse of Politics” (co-author), paper presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Denver, 1974
“Two Concepts of Political Participation,” paper presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, 1974
Chair, Panel on Political Theory and Social Science, Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, 1974
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial Board, Max Weber Studies, 1999-present; Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 1983-99; Western Political Quarterly, 1990-93.
External Reviewer of the Department of Political Science, Bloomsburg University of
Pennsylvania, 1996
Chair, Leo Strauss Dissertation Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 1993-94
Reviewer for the University of California Press; Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press; University Press of Kansas; University of Massachusetts Press; Penn State Press, State University of New York Press; University of Toronto Press, Basil Blackwell; Lexington Press; American Journal of Political Science; American Journal of Sociology; American Political Science Review; German Studies Review; History of the Human Sciences; Journal of Politics; Journal of Theoretical Politics; Journal of the History of Ideas; Max Weber Studies; Political Research Quarterly; Political Theory; Polity; Social Forces; Social Science Quarterly; The Sociological Quarterly; Sociological Theory; Theory, Culture & Society; Theory and Society
Member, American Political Science Association, American Sociological Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Midwest Sociological Society, Southern Political Science Association
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