Demetrios James Caraley, Barnard Political Science Faculty

FACULTY PROFILE

Professor Demetrios James Caraley
Demetrios James Caraley

Research Professor
Janet H. Robb Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus
Professor Emeritus of Political Science

Address
The Academy of Political Science
475 Riverside Drive, Interchurch Bldg., Suite 1274, New York, NY 10115-0012
tel 212.870.2500; fax 212.870.2202; e-mail: dc121@columbia.edu

Office Hours
By appointment, in 1274 Interchurch

Research Interests
Urban policy-making and government
Congress
Democratic political theory
Policy analysis

Courses Taught

POLS BC 3305 Colloquium on the Politics of Urban and Social Policy

POLS BC 3433 Colloquium on Democratic Political Theory and Ethics

POLS V 3711x-12y Senior Research Seminar in American Politics

POLS G 8232
Colloquium on Urban Politics, Policymaking, and Administration

Education
Ph.D. Columbia University
M.Phil. Columbia University
Columbia Law School (elected to Law Review)
B.A. summa cum laude Columbia College

In the News at Barnard

Sep.3, 2002 on Caraley's latest book September 11, Terrorist Attacks, and U.S. Foreign Policy.

Feb.28, 2002 on welfare reform.

Dec.15, 2000 on the outcome of the presidential election.

Dec.4, 2000
on the Electoral College.

Honors and Awards
Grants from Committee on Research in the Social Sciences, The Urban Center, The Ford Foundation, H.E.W., the Exxon Education Foundation, the Department of Education, the Russell Sage Foundation
Harlan Fiske Scholar and elected to Columbia Law Review (Law School)
Phi Beta Kappa (junior year)

Personal Statement
Professor of Political Science and the Janet Robb Professor of the Social Sciences at Barnard College and the Graduate Faculties of Columbia University, Demetrios "Jim" Caraley is also Editor of the Political Science Quarterly and President of The Academy of Political Science.

A specialist on city government and urban policies and problems and on congressional policies toward cities, Caraley has published numerous books and articles including "Critical Issues for Clinton's Domestic Agenda," "Doing More With Less: Cutback Management in New York City," and "City Governments and Urban Problems." The New York Academy of Public Administration selected Caraley's article "Ending Welfare As We Know It: A Reform Still in Progress" (Political Science Quarterly Winter 2001-2002) as the "outstanding" article published in 2001. Caraley has been both an appointed and elected official in Westchester County local government.

Caraley also has published books in the field of national security policy, his latest one being the August 2002 book, September 11, Terrorist Attacks, and U.S. Foreign Policy. He has published The President's War Powers and The Politics of Military Unification, and in the summer of 1999, The New American Interventionism. Caraley's other field of interest is "Democratic Political Theory and Ethics," in which he has written a major article, "Elections and Dilemmas of American Democratic Governance," recently reprinted in Promise and Problems of Old and New Democracies, edited by Xiaobo Lü (2000).

Caraley was a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar for academic year 1995-96, where he worked on a continuing project called "Washington Abandons the Cities and the Urban Poor."

Among Caraley's recent major articles are:

"Washington Abandons the Cities,"
"Dismantling the Federal Safety Net: Fictions versus Realities" (in PDF, 2 MB) and
"Complications of American Democracy: Elections Are Not Enough" (in PDF, 2 MB).

Caraley was elected chairman of the Barnard Political Science Department for ten three-year terms, 1965-1995, was founding chairman of the Barnard Program on Urban Affairs, 1969-1995, and also established the Columbia Graduate Program in Public Policy and Administration where he was the founding director, 1977-1985. Caraley served as a naval officer during the Korean War.