The UC, Berkeley Political Science faculty, unlike the Sociology Dept. , is heavily tilted rightwards. Only lefty I can think of there is Michael Rogin. http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/ Two others, Wendy Brown, " "Left Legalism/Left Critique, " (co-edited with Janet Halley) (Duke, forthcoming 2000). And M. Weir, "The Politics of Social Policy in the United States (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988) (co-edited with Ann Shola Orloff and Theda Skocpol); Schooling for All: Class, Race and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal (New York: Basic Books, 1985) (with Ira Katznelson). She is currently at work on a study of metropolitan inequalities and city-suburban politics in the United States. M.P.
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