Douglas Rae

Douglas Rae is a student of the interface between business and government. 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.

At Yale, he has held leadership positions and board memberships with the University Library, Yale University Press, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, the Division of Social Sciences, the Department of Athletics, and Yale SOM.

His lecture course on Capitalism is featured on the web through Open Yale.

Education

• PhD , University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1967
• MS , University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1964
• BA , Indiana University, 1962

Courses

• State & Society MGT 413
• Managing Inequalities of Wealth & Income under Capitalism MGT 580

Achievements

• Chief Administrative Officer , City of New Haven, Connecticut, 1990-1991
• George Hallet Prize , American Political Science Association, 1989
• Guggenheim Fellow , 1988
• Elm and Ivy Award for Town-Gown Relations , New Haven, Connecticut, 1984
• Fellow , American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1983

Selected books

Murder in the Mode l City: The Black Panthers, Yale, and the Redemption of a Killer P. Bass and D. W. Rae Basic Books (AZ) 2006

City: Urbanism and its end D. W. Rae Yale University Press 2003

Equalities D. W. Rae and D. Yates Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1981 The political consequences of electoral laws D. W. Rae Yale University Press New Haven 1971 The analysis of political cleavages D. W. Rae and M. Taylor Yale University Press New Haven 1970

Selected Articles

Making life work in crowded places D. W. Rae Urban Affairs Review 2006

Viacratic America: Plessy on foot v. Brown on wheels D. W. Rae Annual Review of Political Science 2001

Majority rule D. W. Rae and E. Schickler Perspectives on public choice 1997

Using district magnitude to regulate political party competition D. W. Rae The Journal of Economic Perspectives 1995

Proportional representation over gerrymandering D. W. Rae The Newsletter of PEGS 1993