Department of Political Science
Hunter College, CUNY
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
(212) 772-5507
apolsky@hunter.cuny.edu
http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~apolsky

Professional Experience

Professor, Department of Political Science, Hunter College, CUNY and MA/Ph.D. Program in Political Science, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2005-present.  (Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, Hunter College, 2008-2009) (On leave, Fall 2007)

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Hunter College (Chair, 1993-1996), and MA/Ph.D. Program in Political Science, Graduate School, CUNY, 1991-2004. (On leave, 1999-2000)

Director, Social Science Institute, Diamond Fellowship/CUNY Pipeline Program (for prospective minority scholars), CUNY, 1993-1994.

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Hunter College, 1984-1990. (On leave, 1988-89.)

Adjunct Instructor, Baruch College, CUNY, 1984; John Jay College, CUNY, 1983-1984; Barnard College, 1982.

Lecturer, Department of Politics, Princeton University, 1981-1982.

Current Teaching Fields

American Politics: Introduction to American Government; American Political Development; American Political Economy; Presidency; Political Parties and Interest Groups.
Political Theory: American Political Thought.

Books

Andrew J. Polsky, The Rise of the Therapeutic State (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991).

Articles and Book Chapters

Andrew J. Polsky, "The Presidency at War:  Unchecked Power, Uncertain Leadership," in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System, 9th ed. (Washington, DC:  CQ Press, 2009).  (forthcoming)

Andrew J. Polsky, “Elections in American Political Development,” in Daniel J. Tichenor and Richard A. Harris, eds., Political Behavior and Public Policy:  Interdisciplinary Essays on American Political Development (Boulder, CO:  ABC-Clio, 2009).  (forthcoming)

Andrew J. Polsky, “Living with Path Dependence,” Polity 40 (4) (October 2008):  546-51.

Andrew J. Polsky and William D. Adler, “The State in a Blue Uniform,” Polity 40 (3) (July 2008):  348-54.

Andrew J. Polsky, “Collective Inaction:  Presidents, Congress, and Unpopular Wars,” Extensions (Spring 2008):  4-8.

Andrew J. Polsky, "Seeing Your Name in Print:  Unpacking the Mysteries of the Review Process at Political Science Scholarly Journals," PS:  Political Science and Politics 40 (3) (July 2007):  539-43.  (Refereed).  Reprinted in Stephen Yoder, ed., Publishing Political Science: APSA Guide to Writing and Publishing (Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 2008), pp. 197-211.

Andrew J. Polsky, "The Presidency at War," in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System, 8th ed. (Washington, DC:  CQ Press, 2006), pp. 557-75.

Andrew J. Polsky, "No Tool is Perfect:  Periodization in the Study of American Political Development," Polity 37 (4) (October 2005):  523-30.

Daniel M. Cook and Andrew J. Polsky, "Political Time Reconsidered:  Unbuilding and Rebuilding the State under the Reagan Administration," American Politics Research 33 (4) (July 2005):  577-605. (Refereed)

Andrew J. Polsky and Olesya Tkacheva, "Legacies versus Politics: Herbert Hoover, Partisan Conflict, and the Symbolic Appeal of Associationalism in the 1920s," International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 16 (2) (Winter 2002): 207-35. (Refereed)

Andrew J. Polsky, "'Mr Lincoln's Army' Revisited: Partisanship, Institutional Position, and Union Army Command, 1861-1865," Studies in American Political Development 16 (2) (Fall 2002): 176-207. (Refereed)

Andrew J. Polsky, "When Business Speaks: Political Entrepreneurship, Discourse, and Mobilization in American Partisan Regimes," Journal of Theoretical Politics12 (4) (October 2000): 451-72. (Refereed)

Andrew J. Polsky, "The New 'Dismal Science'? The Lessons of American Political Development for Politics Today," Polity 32 (3) (Spring 2000): 413-18. (Forum organizer and participant)

Andrew J. Polsky, "The 1996 Elections and the Logic of Regime Politics," Polity 30 (1) (Fall 1997): 153-66. (Invited forum participant)

Andrew J. Polsky, "Giving Business the Business," Dissent (Winter 1996): 33-36.

Andrew J. Polsky, "The Odyssey of the Juvenile Court: Policy Failure and Institutional Persistence in the Therapeutic State," Studies in American Political Development 3 (1989): 157-98. (Refereed)

Andrew J. Polsky, "Jane Jacobs and the Limits of Urban Capitalism," Urban Resources 5 (Fall 1988): 9-14, 24. (Refereed)

Andrew J. Polsky, "Welfare Policy: Why the Past Has No Future," democracy 3 (Winter 1983): 21-33.

Andrew J. Polsky, "Political Parties and the New Corporatism," democracy 2 (July 1982): 42-51.

Review Essays

Andrew J. Polsky, "The Political Economy of Partisan Regimes:  Lessons from Two Republican Eras," Polity 35 (4) (July 2003):  595-612. (Refereed)

Andrew J. Polsky, "Why Regimes? Ideas, Incentives, and Policies in American Political Orders," Polity 29 (4) (Summer 1997): 625-40.

Andrew J. Polsky, "Welfare State History: The Limits of the New" and "A Reply to the Authors," Journal of Policy History 7 (4) (1995): 49-63 and 71-74, respectively.

Andrew J. Polsky, "A Dissent from the New Welfare Consensus," Journal of the American Planning Association 55 (Summer 1989): 371-74.

Andrew J. Polsky, "New York City: Managing Without Democracy," democracy 1 (July 1981): 109-22.

Reviews

Andrew J. Polsky, review of Suzanne Mettler, Soldiers to Citizens:  The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation, in Perspectives on Politics 5 (3) (September 2007):  644-645.

Andrew J. Polsky, review of Peter F. Nardulli, ed., The Constitution and American Political Development, in Journal of Politics 55 (3) (August 1993): 812-14.

Andrew J. Polsky, "Urban Prospects and the Political Imperative," Urban Resources 2 (Fall 1984): 45-48. [Review of John Mollenkopf, The Contested City.]

Dissertation
"The Origin of Welfare Policy: A Study in the Organization of Power."
Supervisors: Sheldon S. Wolin and Duane Lockard.
Ph.D. Awarded, Princeton University, October 1984.

Papers

Andrew J. Polsky, "Staying the Course:  Presidential Leadership, Military Stalemate, and Strategic Inertia," 2007 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting,  Chicago, IL.

William Adler and Andrew J. Polsky, "Collective Action, Economic Development, and the Early National Security State,"  2006 APSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Andrew J. Polsky, "The Presidency at War," 2004 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Daniel M. Cook and Andrew J. Polsky, "The First Order of Business:  Regime Change, the Reagan Administration, and Remaking the State," 2003 APSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Andrew J. Polsky, "A Theory of American Partisan Regimes," Philadelphia American Politics Research Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November 1, 2002.

Andrew J. Polsky, "A Theory of American Partisan Regimes," Twentieth Century Workshop of the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, April 5, 2002.

Andrew J. Polsky, "A Theory of American Partisan Regimes," 2001 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Andrew J. Polsky, "'Mr. Lincoln's Army' Revisited: Partisanship, Institutional Position, and Union Army Command, 1861-1865," New York Colloquium on American Political Development, CUNY Graduate Center, November 29, 2000.

Andrew J. Polsky, "The 1996 Elections and the Logic of Regime Politics," 1996 Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

Andrew J. Polsky, "Political Regimes and American Business: Incorporation, Disaffection, and Opposition," 1996 APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Andrew J. Polsky, "The Fate of Ideas: Economic Vision, Party Regimes, and American Institutional Development," 1992 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Andrew J. Polsky, "Clean Hands in Dirty Systems: Unanticipated Consequences of Reform in the Human Services," Working Paper No. 4, the Robert F. Wagner, Sr. Institute of Urban Public Policy, November 1989.

Andrew J. Polsky, "Curing the Plague of Politics: The Struggle Against Localism in the Early Welfare State," 1989 APSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Andrew J. Polsky, "Philanthropic Ideology and State Power: The Therapeutic Impulse in Progressive Welfare Policy," Conference Group on Political Economy, 1986 APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Andrew J. Polsky, "Instrumental Knowledge and the Pursuit of Power: The Perpetual Crisis of the Human Services," 1986 APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Andrew J. Polsky, "Experts and Clients: The Bureaucratic Reconstruction of Citizenship," 1985 Conference on Critical Perspectives in Organizational Analysis, Baruch College, CUNY.

Andrew J. Polsky, "The Administered Citizen," 1983 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Andrew J. Polsky, "The Making of the Administered Citizen: Social Class, Political Membership, and Progressive Reform," 1982 Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Haven, CT.

Andrew J. Polsky, "The Political Function of Social Science: American Sociology and the Origin of Welfare Policy," 1982 APSA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
 

Scholarly Activities

Co-Chair.  Workshop.  “Publishing in a Professional Journal,” 2007 NPSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Participant.  Roundtable.  "Politics, History, and the State of the State as a Conceptual Variable," 2007 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Chair.  "Democrats, Republicans, and Movements in APD," 2006 APSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Participant.  Roundtable. "Getting Published in Political Science," 2006 APSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Lecture.  "The Presidency at War, 1787-2006:  Unchecked Power and Political Risk," 2006 Institute in American Politics and Political Thought for [International] Higher Education Faculty, University of Massachusetts, June 28, 2006.

Discussant.  Panel, "Understanding the Policy Process," 2006 Policy History Conference, Charlottesville, VA.

Lecture.  "The Presidency at War, 1787-2006:  Unchecked Power and Political Risk," TIAA-CREF Outstanding Faculty Lecture, Hunter College, CUNY, May 10, 2006.

Participant.  Roundtable, "Publishing in Political Science," 2006 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Lecture.  "Twentieth Century Wars and the Growth in the American Presidency," 2005 Institute in American Politics and Political Thought for [International] Higher Education Faculty, University of Massachusetts, F.I.T., New York, July 22, 2005.

Participant.  Roundtable, "Periodization in American Political Development," 2004 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Moderator.  Panel, "Race, Slavery, and the Civil War:  Preserving the Continental Order," The Rise to Globalism:  Ideas, Institutions, and American Political Development, Fulbright American Studies Institute, CUNY Graduate Center, July 3, 2003.

Discussant. Panel, "Parties and Interest Groups in American History," 2002 APSA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

Chair and Participant. Roundtable, "'Mr. President, If You had Read My Book'...: What (If Anything) Political History Can Teach Leaders and Citizens Today," 1999 APSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Discussant (substitute). Panel, "Building the Old American State," 1999 APSA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Chair and Discussant. Panel, "Political Culture as a Historical Outcome: Conflicts, Institutions, and Interests," 1998 APSA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

Discussant. Panel, "Regimes and Orders in American Political Development," 1997 APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Chair and Discussant (substitute). Roundtable on Ian Lustick's Unsettled States/Disputed Lands, 1996 APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Discussant. Panel, "Policy History: The Administrative State and Regulation," 1994 APSA Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Chair and Discussant. Panel, "Ideas and Institutions in Social Policy Formation," 1993 APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Chair and Discussant. Panel, "Political Theory and Political History," 1990 CUNY Annual Political Science Conference, New York, NY.

Lecture. "Clean Hands in Dirty Systems: Unanticipated Consequences of Reform in the Human Services," Political Science Forum, CUNY Political Science Graduate Program, 1989.

Chair and Discussant. Panel, "Justice and Liberalism in Contemporary Political Thought," 1988 CUNY Annual Political Science Conference, New York, NY.

Chair. Panel, "Expertise and the Organization of Power," 1986 APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Lecture. "Class Conflict and Philanthropy: Building the American State in the 19th Century," Political Science Forum, CUNY Political Science Graduate Program, 1986.

Participant. Roundtable, "Koch III and After," 1985 CUNY Annual Political Science Conference.

Participant. Roundtable, "Reindustrialization: Corporatism Within the Liberal State," Conference Group on Political Economy, 1983 APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Lecture. "The Administered Citizen," 1983 Conference on "The Humanities and Public Policy: Fundamental Issues," Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Richmond, VA.

Graduate Teaching Experience (CUNY Graduate Center)
American Politics (core course).
American Political Development.

Undergraduate Teaching Experience (past five years)
American Government: A Historical Introduction.
Introduction to American Government.
The American Presidency.
Presidential Leadership Seminar: The Clinton Presidency.
American Political Economy.
American Political Thought.
Ideas in American Politics.
Political Parties and Interest Groups.

Dissertation Supervision, CUNY Ph.D. Program in Political Science
Sponsor:  William D. Adler (in progress), Jennifer Hopper (in progress)
Reader:  Victoria Allen, Alan Beck, Daniel M. Cook, Margaret Gray, Douglas Haugen, Christopher J. Malone, Laura McKenna, Richard Meagher, Melissa Pavone, Stephen Pimpare.
 

Grants and Fellowships
Provost Grant for Departmental Pilot Assessment Project, 2008.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2007-2008
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2005-2006.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2004-2005.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2002-2003.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 1999-2000.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 1995-1996.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 1989-1990.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, 1988-1989.
CUNY Scholar Incentive Award, Spring 1989.
Robert F. Wagner, Sr. Institute Award, Fall 1988.
PSC-CUNY Creative Incentive Award, Summer 1987.
Princeton University Graduate Fellowship, 1977-1981.

Awards and Honors
TIAA-CREF Outstanding Faculty Lecturer, Hunter College, CUNY, 2006.
CUNY Performance Excellence Award, 1999.
American Political Science Association/Pi Sigma Alpha Outstanding Teaching Award, 1999.

Editorships
Editor, Polity, 2005-present.
Member, Editorial Board, Polity, 1999-2005.
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 2003-2004.

Professional Activities
External Advisor, Chair Search, Political Science Department, Yeshiva University, 2007.
Member, Council, Politics and History Section, APSA, 2002-2004.
Founder and Convener, New York Colloquium on American Political Development, 1994-2004.
Member, J. David Greenstone Book Prize Selection Committee, Politics and History Section, APSA, 2001-2002, 1996-1997, 1994-1995.
Member, Interdisciplinary Review Committee, CUNY Faculty Research Award Program, 2000-2001.
Member, Nominating Committee, Politics and History Section, APSA, 2000, 1993.
Program Co-Chair, Politics and History Section, 1999 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Member, Political Science Review Committee, CUNY Faculty Research Award Program, 1992-1993, 1991-1992, 1985-1986.
Member, Planning Committee, 1990 CUNY Political Science Conference.
Member, Seminar in Political Thought, Columbia University, 1986-1991.
Member, Friday Forum Committee, CUNY Graduate Program in Political Science, 1986-87.
Manuscript Reviews for American Political Science Review, Journal of Policy History, Polity, Journal of Theoretical Politics, W. W. Norton, Congressional Quarterly Press, Wadsworth Publishing, Temple University Press, and Greenwood Press.

University Service (Hunter College)
Member, Middle States Working Group, Hunter College, 2007-2008.
Chair, Provost Search Committee, 2006-2007.
Member, Department Personnel and Budget Committee, 2004-present, 1993-2002.
Member, Department Curriculum Committee, 2004-2005, 1996-2002.
        (Chair, 2004-present, 1996-1998)
Member, Select Committee on Academic Integrity, 2004-2005.
Member, Social Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2004-2005.
Member, First-Year Block Program Planning Committee, 2000-2001, 1997-1999.
Member, Select Committee on the Distribution Requirements, Hunter College Senate, 1996-1998.
        (Chair, 1996-1997).
Member,[College-wide] Faculty Personnel and Budget Committee, 1993-1996.
Member, Divisional Personnel and Budget Committee, 1993-1996.
University Faculty Senate Representative, CUNY Task Force on Coordinated Scheduling, 1995-1996.
Member, Hunter College Senate, 1994-1996, 1990-1992, 1985-1988.
        (Parliamentarian, 1991-1992.)
Member, Selection Committee, Lang Junior Faculty Development Awards, 1994, 1993.
Member, Social Sciences Divisional Curriculum Committee, 1993.
Member, Dean's Committee to Review the Social Science Curriculum for Teacher Certification, 1990.
Chair, Undergraduate Academic Requirements Committee, Hunter College Senate, 1986-1988.

University Service (CUNY Graduate School)
Member, Admissions Committee, Ph.D./MA Program in Political Science, 2005-present.
Member, First Examination Committee, Ph.D. Program in Political Science, 2000-present, 1992-1999.
        (Chair, American Politics section, 2004-2005, Spring 1998.)
Chair, Curriculum and Examinations Committee, 2004-2005.
Member, Student Development Committee, Ph.D. Program in Political Science, 2000-2004, 1995-1999.
Member, Dissertation Proposal Committee, Ph.D. Program in Political Science, 1996-2001.
        (Chair, 2000-2001, 1998-1999).
Member, Executive Committee, Ph.D. Program in Political Science, 1994-1997.
Member, Faculty Membership Committee, Ph.D. Program in Political Science, 1994-1997.
Member, Coordinating Committee, Ph.D. Program in Political Science, 1994-1996.

Related Instructional Activities
Associate Director, Social Science Institute, Diamond Foundation Pipeline Program, 1991-1992.
Advisor, Undergraduate Students, Department of Political Science, 1992-1993, 1989-1991, 1986-87.
Advisor, Hunter College Chapter, Political Science Honor Society, 1985-1989.

Public and Community Service
Coach, Summit Junior Baseball, 1998-2004.
Member, Community Board 7 Manhattan, 1981; Co-chair, Budget Committee.
Assistant District Manager, Community Board 7 Manhattan, 1980-1981.

Graduate Education
Department of Politics, Princeton University, 1977-1981.
        M.A., 1980; Ph.D., 1984.

References
Furnished upon request.