Email:
sberman@barnard.edu
Address: Department of
Political Science
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
I am an associate professor of political science at Barnard College, Columbia University.
My research interests include: political development, European politics, the history of the left, and comparative political economy.
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My most recent book, The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe's Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2006), examines the history of social democracy from its origins in the late nineteenth century to today and shows how it beat out competitors such as classical liberalism, orthodox Marxism, and its cousins, fascism and National Socialism, by solving the central challenge of modern politics: reconciling the competing needs of capitalism and democracy. |