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

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.

Select Civic Boards
New Haven Youth Soccer (President)
New Haven Lawn Club (President)
Mory’s Association (President)
Mory’s Preservation Inc. (President)
New Haven Preservation Trust
Tweed New Haven Airport (Chair)
Leeway Inc. (Chair)
New Haven Youth Tennis and Education

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
Capitalism, forthcoming

Murder in the Model City, (with P. Bass), 2005

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