Faculty

Margaret Levi

Office: Gowen 147
(206) 543-7947

mlevi@u.washington.edu

Margaret Levi is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle. She is Director of the CHAOS (Comparative Historical Analysis of Organizations and States) Center and formerly the Harry Bridges Chair and Director, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. Levi earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974, the year she joined the faculty of the University of Washington. She became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 2002. She is a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 2006-7. She was awarded the S. Sterling Munro Public Service Teaching Award in 2001. She served as President of the American Political Science Association (2004-5).

Levi is the author of three solely authored books, Bureaucratic Insurgency: The Case of Police Unions (1977); Of Rule and Revenue (1988); and Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (1997). She is the joint author of Analytic Narratives (1998); Cooperation Without Trust? (2005); and Democracy at Risk (2005). She is the co-editor of The Limits of Rationality (1979); Trust and Governance (1998); and Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists about Economics and Political Science (1999). Her current research focuses on the bases for and effects of trustworthy and effective government. Concurrently, she is working on a range of issues having to do with labor unions and with global justice campaigns. Some of the work builds on the WTO History Project, which she co-directed. She also continues to write on issues concerning the analytic narrative approach to the study of complex historical and comparative processes.

In 1999 she became the general editor of Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics and in 1997 the co-general editor of the Trust series for Russell Sage Foundation Press. As of 2006, she is the editor of the Annual Review of Political Science, and she is on the editorial boards of Politics & Society, Rationality and Society, and Political Studies. She served on the board of the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) and the Society for Comparative Research. She is currently a trustee of the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). She served the American Political Science Association (APSA) as the president of the Section on Political Economy (SOPE), convention program co-chair with James Alt, a member of the Executive Council, and Vice-President.

She also has numerous community commitments. She has served on the Jobs for Justice Workers' Right Board and was a member of the first coordinating committee of SAWSJ (Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice). With her husband, Robert D. Kaplan, she has developed a substantial collection of Australian aboriginal art, part of which is on loan to the Seattle Art Museum.

Her fellowships include the Woodrow Wilson in 1968, German Marshall in 1988-9, and the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences in 1993-1994. She has lectured and been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, the European University Institute, the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, the Juan March Institute, the Budapest Collegium, Cardiff University, and Oxford University.

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