Sheri Berman's Website

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.

CV

Publications

Teaching

Primacy of Politics 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.


I am currently working on a project re-examining European political development in order to figure out what relevance and lessons the European experience has for countries struggling to establish well-functioning states and political systems today.