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Richard S. Ely Professor of Management & Professor of Political Science

Professor Rae is a specialist in the political economy of cities, electoral politics, political ideology, and power relations. A political scientist and member of the Yale faculty since 1967, he took leave in 1990 and 1991 to serve as chief administrative officer of the City of New Haven. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former Guggenheim Fellow, Professor Rae has been a consultant for the Parliament of Spain, the Italian Christian Democratic Party, and the BBC. He has served as president of Leeway, Inc., a nonprofit corporation serving AIDS patients. Professor Rae is consulted frequently by the media for his views on urban development, reversing urban poverty, and regionalization. His latest book, City: Urbanism and Its End (Yale University Press), was published in the fall of 2003.

Consultancies
Christian Democratic Party of Italy
Parliament of Spain
Government of the Netherlands Antilles
BBC

Boards of Directors
Project MORE
Candidate School for Women
Tweed-New Haven Airport
New Haven Scholarship Fund (Trustee)

Achievements and Honors
Chief Administrative Officer for the 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

Editorships
Civic Arts Review
Theoretical Politics

Books
The Geography of Liberty, forthcoming

City: Urbanism and Its End, Yale University Press, 2003

Equalities, Harvard University Press, 1981; Revised Edition, 1989; Italian Edition, 1992

Political Consequences of Electoral Law, Yale University Press, 1967; Revised Edition, 1971; Spanish Translation, 1976; Italian Edition, 1992

The Analysis of Political Cleavages (with M. Taylor), Yale University Press, 1970

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