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PERSONAL


United States Naturalized Citizen  
Married, three children

MAILING ADDRESS

Collegium V Honors Program GC 10

The University of Texas at Dallas

800 W Campbell Road

Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
972-883-6729 Office
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e-mail: harpham@utdallas.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., (Government), Cornell University (1980)
M.A., (Government), Cornell University (1976)
B.A. (Political Science), Pennsylvania State University, (1973)

 

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2008- . Associate Provost, The University of Texas at Dallas.

2001- . Professor of Political Science, The University of Texas at Dallas.

1998- . Director of Collegium V, University Honors Program, The University of Texas at Dallas.

1998-2008 . Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, The University of Texas at Dallas.

1986-2001. Associate Professor of Government and Political Economy, The University of Texas at Dallas.

1986-89. College Master of The School of Social Sciences (Director of Undergraduate Studies), The University of Texas at Dallas.

 1981-86. Assistant Professor of Government and Political Economy, The University of Texas at Dallas.

 1978-81. Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Houston.

 1974-76. Teaching Assistant, Cornell University.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

Will Mann Richardson Lecturer. Austin College, 2009

Polycarp Kusch Lecturer, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2006

President, Southwestern Political Science Association, 2001-02

President-Elect, Southwestern Political Science Association, 2000-01

Honorary Member, Golden Key Honor Society, The University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 2000

Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award, The University of Texas at Dallas, 1996-97

Andrew R. Cecil Lecturer, The University of Texas at Dallas, 1994

Vice-President, Southwestern Political Science Association, 1993-94

Mortar Board "Top Profs" Designation, University of Houston, 1981

Clark Teaching Award-Honorable Mention, Cornell University, 1975-76

B.A. With Highest Distinction, Pennsylvania State University, 1973

Phi Beta Kappa, Pennsylvania State University, 1973

Phi Kappa Phi, Pennsylvania State University, 1972

Phi Eta Sigma, Pennsylvania State University, 1970

 

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Special Faculty Development Assignment, 1997-98.

The Political Economy of Public Policy (1982) was recognized by the Policy Studies Organization for appearing in it policy study series which was awarded the Aaron Wildavsky Book Award for 1997 by the American Political Science Association.

Grant from the Liberty Fund to organize a conference entitled "Liberty and Social
Contract in the Natural Law Tradition: From Pufendorf to Hume." Weston Hotel.
The Galleria. Dallas, Texas. May 20-3, 1993.

Grant from the Liberty Fund to organize a conference entitled "The Impact on Liberty of Locke's Two Treatises." Doubletree   Hotel, Dallas, Texas. October 27-30, 1988.

F. Leroy Hill Faculty Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, Summer, 1985

Organized Research Grant, The University of Texas at Dallas, Summer 1983

Organized Research Grant, The University of Texas at Dallas, 1981-1982

Limited Grant in Aid, University of Houston, 1980-1981

Resident Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies, 1977-1978

Summer Research Grant, Cornell University, 1977

Center for the Study of American Political Economy Fellowship, Cornell
University, 1976-1978

Cornell University Summer Fellowship, 1976

Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, 1974-76

John L. Senior Fellow, Cornell University, 1973-76

 

PROFESSIONAL WRITINGS

 Books

Author, We The People.  Texas Edition. Seventh Edition.  (New York: W.W. Norton. Forthcoming: 2009), with Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Margaret Weir, Anthony Champagne, and John Forsche.

Author, We The People.  Texas Edition. Sixth Edition.  (New York: W.W. Norton, 2007), with Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Margaret Weir, Anthony Champagne, and John Forsche.

Author, We The People.  Texas Edition. Fifth Edition.  (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005), with Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Margaret Weir, Anthony Champagne, and John Forsche.

Author, We The People.  Texas Edition. Fourth Edition.  (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003), with Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Margaret Weir, Anthony Champagne, and John Forsche.

Author, We The People.  Texas Edition. Third Edition.  (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001), with Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Margaret Weir, Anthony Champagne, and John Forsche.

Author, The Rhythms of American Politics (Lantham, MD: University Press of America, 1998)with Brian J.L. Berry, Euel Elliott, and Heja Kim.

Editor, Texas Politics: A Reader Second Edition.  (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998), with Anthony Champagne. 

Editor,Texas Politics: A Reader (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), with
Anthony Champagne. 

Editor, John Locke's Two Treatises of Government: New Interpretations (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1992). Reviewed in English Historical Review, Review of Metaphysics, Liberty, Political Studies, History
of Political Thought

Editor, Texas at the Crossroads:  People, Politics, Policy (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987), with Anthony Champagne. This book has led to stories in the Dallas Times Herald and coverage on the University of Texas Chancellor's Report (statewide radio program).  Reviewed in the Dallas Morning News, Review of Texas Books, Books of the Southwest, Publishers Weekly, Judith Rigler's syndicated column, and Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Author, Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of Raymond M. Seidelman with Edward J.
Harpham, Disenchanted Realists:  Political Science and the American Crisis (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985). Reviewed in the American Political Science Review, Society, Ethics, Contemporary Sociology, and the Journal of American History.

Editor, The Attack on the Welfare State (Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1984), with Anthony Champagne. The book has been adopted as a text at 45  colleges and universities.

Editor, The Political Economy of Public Policy (Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications, 1982), with Alan Stone. Reviewed in the American Political Science Review. 

Articles

"Adam Smith's Lost World of Gratitude." In Benjamin Ginsberg and Wendy Mink (eds.) Essays in Honor of Theodore J. Lowi. New York: W.W. Norton: forthcoming.

Adam Smith Review Review Essay (with Rejoinder by Gavin Kennedy): Gavin Kennedy’s Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy. Adam Smith Review. New York: Routledge, 2007

"Adam Smith's Lost World of Gratitude." Polycarp Kusch Lecture Series. Concerns of the Lively Mind. Richardson, Texas. The University of Texas at Dallas. 2006.

"John Locke." Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History.  Great Barrington, MA.:Berkshire Publishing Group, 2004.

"Gratitude in the History of Ideas."  In The Psychology of Gratitude.  Edited by Robert Emmons and Michael McCulloch.  Studies in Affective Science.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

"Mancur Lloyd Olson."  In American Political Scientists.  A Dictionary.  Second Edition.  Edited by Glenn H. Utter and Charles Lockhart.  Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2002.

"Enlightenment, Impartial Spectators, and Griswold's Smith."  Perspectives on Political Science.  (Summer 2001).

"The Problem of Liberty in the Thought of Adam Smith."  Journal of the History of Economic Thought.  22,2  (June 2000): 217-37.

"Economics and History: Books II and III of the Wealth of Nations."   History of Political Thought, 23, 3 (Autumn 1999): 438-55.

"Teaching and the Web." The Political Science Educator 4, 3 (May 1998).

"Welfare Reform and the New Paternalism in Texas." In Texas Politics: A Reader.  Second edition.  Edited by Anthony Champagne and Edward J. Harpham (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998).

"The Changing Texas Political Economy." In Texas Politics: A Reader Second edition.  Edited by Anthony Champagne and Edward J. Harpham (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998). With Anthony Champagne.

"Political Theory and Public Policy: Marx, Weber, and a Republican Theory of the State."  In Contemporary Empirical Political Theory Edited by Kristin R. Monroe (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997). With Theodore J. Lowi.

"Welfare Reform and the New Paternalism in Texas." In Texas Politics: A Reader.  Edited by Anthony Champagne and Edward J. Harpham (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997).

"The Changing Texas Political Economy." In Texas Politics: A Reader Edited by
Anthony Champagne and Edward J. Harpham (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997). With Anthony Champagne.

 "The Yield Curve as an Electoral Bellwether." Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 51 (March 1996). With Brian J.L. Berry and Euel Elliott.

 "Texas Reconsidered." PA Times. (July 1995). With Anthony Champagne.

 "From Public Welfare to Private Virtue: Shifting Liberal and Conservative Concepts of Social Well-Being." In Moral Values in Liberalism and Conservatism. The 1994 Andrew R. Cecil Lectures on Moral Values in a Free Society. Vol. XVI. Edited by W. Lawson Taitte. With an Introduction by Andrew R. Cecil. Richardson, Texas: The University of Texas at Dallas, 1995.

 "Long Swings in American Inequality: The Kuznets Conjecture Revisited." Papers in Regional Science. 74,2 (1995). With Brian J.L. Berry and Euel Elliott. Reprinted in Regional Dynamics. Edited by Kingsley E. Haynes. Modern Classics in Regional Science. Series editors Kennth L. Button and Peter Nujkamp. Glos, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming.

 "What Makes an American." Opinion Piece. The Harte-Hanks Community
Newspapers. Plano Star Courier. Plano, Texas. June 19, 1994.

 "Riding the Long Wave: Macroeconomics, the Presidency, and Clinton's Dilemma." Business and the Contemporary World. 6, 1 (Winter 1994). With Brian J.L. Berry and Euel Elliott.

 "Mancur Olson." American Political Scientists: A Dictionary. Edited by David Castle, Charles Lockhart, and Glenn Utter. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press: 1993.

"Locke's Two Treatises in Perspective." In Locke's Two Treatises of Government: New Interpretations. Edited by Edward J. Harpham. (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1992).

"Ideology and Welfare Reform in the 1980s."  In Reforming Welfare: Lessons, Limits, and Choices. Edited by  Richard Couglin (Albuquerque NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1989).  With Richard K. Scotch.

 "Economic Discourse, Policy Analysis, and the Problem of the Political."  In Handbook of Political Theory and Policy Science  Edited by Michael B. Levy and Edward B. Portis (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988) with Richard K. Scotch.

 "Rethinking the War on Poverty:  The Ideology of Social Welfare Reform." Refereed Review Essay in Western Political Quarterly (March 1988), with Richard K. Scotch.

"Welfare Reform in Perspective."  In Texas at the Crossroads:  People, Politics, Policy.  Edited by Anthony Champagne and Edward J. Harpham. (College Station:  Texas A&M University Press, 1987).

"Editors' Introduction" and "Epilogue."  In Texas at the Crossroads:  People, Politics, Policy. Edited by Anthony Champagne and Edward J. Harpham. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987), with Anthony Champagne.

"Federalism, Keynesianism and the Transformation of the Unemployment Insurance System in the United States."  In Douglas Ashford and E. W. Kelley Nationalizing Social Security in Europe and America (Greenwich, Conn.:  JAI Press, 1986).

"Class, Commerce, and the State:  Economic Discourse and Lockean Liberalism in the Seventeenth Century." Western Political Quarterly (December, 1985). Reprinted in John Locke: Critical Assessments II. Edited by Richard Ashcraft. London: Routledge, 1991.

"Toward Real Pension Security." Wall Street Journal (January 22, 1985), with John Goodman.

"Natural Law and Early Liberal Economic Discourse:  A Reconsideration of Locke's Theories of Value." Social Science Quarterly (December, 1984).

"Political Economy and Social Theory:  Symposium Introduction." Social Science Quarterly (December, 1984).

"Liberalism, Civic Humanism and the Case of Adam Smith." American Political
Science Review
, (September, 1984). Reprinted in Adam Smith: Critical Assessments.   Edited by John Cunningham Wood (New York: Rouledge, 1995); Also reprinted in Adam Smith.  Edited by Knud Haakonssen.  Ashgate Publishing History of Philosophy Series.  (Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing, 1998).

"Fiscal Crisis and the Politics of Social Security Reform."  In The Attack on the
Welfare State
.  Edited by Anthony Champagne and Edward J. Harpham.
(Prospect Heights, Ill.:  Waveland Press, 1984).

"The Attack on the Welfare State."  In The Attack on the Welfare State. Edited by Anthony Champagne and Edward J. Harpham.  (Prospect Heights, Ill.:  Waveland Press, 1984), with Anthony Champagne.

"Social Security:  Its Origins and Prospects for Reform." Cato Journal (Fall, 1983).

"The Study of Political Economy."  In The Political Economy of Public Policy, Edited by Alan Stone and Edward J. Harpham.  (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1982), with Alan Stone.

"Social Security Responsibility." Dallas Morning News, (August 16, 1982), with Philip Armour. 

Policy Studies and Working Papers

"Economics and History: Books II and III of the Wealth of Nations." Political Economy Working Papers. 96-7. School of Social Sciences. The University of Texas at Dallas. Richardson, Texas. August 1996.

"The Yield Curve as an Electoral Bellwether." With Brian J.L. Berry and Euel Elliott. Political Economy Working Papers. 95-5. School of Social Sciences. The University of Texas at Dallas. Richardson, Texas. 1995.

Contributor to "Democracy and Political Participation in the Sahiel: The Place
of Education." Primary Author: Simon M. Fass. Prepared for the United States
Agency for International Development and the Club du Sahel/OECD. August 20, 1992.

"Private Pensions in Crisis:  The Case for a Radical Reform."  (Richardson, Texas:
Center for Applied Research, The University of Texas at Dallas; Dallas, Texas: 
National Center for Policy Analysis, January 16, 1985).  Reprinted in Retirement
Income Security in America
.  Hearings before the Subcommittee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress.  First Session.  July 18; September 5 and 6, 1985.

"Politics, Power, and Poverty:  Texas Welfare Reform in Perspective." Faculty Working Paper Series (Richardson, Texas:  The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Social Sciences, Center for Policy Studies, October, 1984). 

"Contributor to "The Failure of our Public Schools:  The Causes and a Solution." (Dallas, Texas:  National Center for Policy Analysis, November, 1983).

 

Book Reviews

Choice Book Review: Ryan Patrick Henley’s Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue. (Forthcoming 2009).

 

Choice Book Review: Laurie M. Johnson Bagby’s Thomas Hobbes: Turning Point for Honor. (November 2009).

 

Choice Book Review: Paul A. Rahe’s Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau,, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect. (September: 2009).

 

Choice Book Review: Rebecca E. Kingston’s Montesquieu and His Legacy. (July: 2009).

 

Choice  Book Review: Stephen M. Feldman’s Free Expression and Democracy in America. A History.  (June: 2009).

 

Choice Book Review:  Rachel Turner’s Neo-Liberal Ideology: History, Concepts and Policies. (February: 2009).

 

Choice Book Review: Stephen Elstub’s Towards a Deliberative and Associational Democracy. (December 2008).

Choice Book Review: John M. Parrish: Paradoxes of Political Ethics: From Dirty Hands to the Invisible Hand. (Forthcoming: 2008).

Choice Book Review: Michael Bacon: Richard Rorty: Pragmatism and Political Liberalism. (Forthcoming: 2008).

Choice Book Review: Russell Hardin's David Hume: Moral and Political Theorist. (April 2008).

Choice Book Review: Neil McArthur’s David Hume’s Political Theory: Law, Commerce, and  the Constitution of Government. (March 2008)

 

Choice Book Review: Thomas Pogge’s John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice. (October 2007).

European Legacy Book Review: Stefan Wolff’s Ethnic Conflicts: A Global Perspective. Forthcoming. 12:3 (May 2007).

Perspectives on Politics Book Review: Ido Oren's Our Enemies & US: America's Rivalries and the Making of Political Science.  September 2004).

Urban Studies Book Review:  Royce Hanson’s Civic Culture and Urban Change: Governing Dallas.  (October 2004) Vol.41:11.

EH.Net Book Review: Andrea Finkelstein's Harmony and Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth Century English Economic Thought.  (June 7, 2002).

American Political Science Review Book Review: Ellen Meiksins and Neil Wood's A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism.  92, 2 (June 1998).

H-Teachpol Book Review: Jeffrey E. Garten's The Big Ten: The Big Emerging Markets and How They Will Change Our Lives. (April 1998).

American Review of Politics Book Review: Ted V. McAllister's Revolt Against
Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order
. (Winter 1997). 

American Political Science Review Book Review: David Steigerwald's Wilsonian Idealism in America. (December 1995).

Policy Currents Book Review: John P. Frendreis and Raymond Tatalovich's The Modern Presidency and Economic Policy. (Summer 1994).

 Midsouth Journal of Political Science Book Review: Richard E. Flathman's
Willful Liberalism: Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice. (Winter 1993). 

Review of Politics Book Review: "The Humean and Kantian Hayek: Chandran Kukathas's Hayek and Modern Liberalism." (Summer 1991).

Journal of Politics Book Review: Jill Quadagno's The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State (August 1990).

Social Science Quarterly Book Review: Gordon Tullock's The Economics of Wealth and Poverty (March, 1987). 

American Journal of Sociology Book Review:  Neil Gilbert's Capitalism and the Welfare State:  Dilemmas of Social Benevolence (March, 1985). 

American Political Science Review Book Review:  James E. Alt and K. Alec
Chrystal's Political Economics (December, 1984).

American Political Science Review Book Review:  Edward Walter's The Immorality of Limiting Growth (December, 1983). 

American Political Science Review Book Review:  Karen Vaughn's John Locke: Economist and Social Scientist (March, 1981).

American Political Science Review, Book Review:  Alan Wolfe's The Limits of
Legitimacy:  Political Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism
(March, 1980).

 Journal of Politics Book Note:  Kenneth Crowe's America for Sale (November, 1979).

American Political Science Review Book Review:  Louis Dumont's From
Mandeville to Marx:  The Genesis and Triumph of Economic Ideology

(December, 1978).

 

 

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