Background
Mansbridge, Jane Jebb was born on November 19, 1939 in New York City. Daughter of Ronald and Georgia St. Claire (Mullen) Mansbridge.
( "Beyond Adversary Democracy should be read by everyone ...)
"Beyond Adversary Democracy should be read by everyone concerned with democratic theory and practice."—Carol Pateman, Politics "Sociologists recurrently complain about how seldom it is that we produce books that combine serious theorizing about important issues of public policy with original and sensitive field research. Several rounds of enthusiastic applause, then, are due Jane Mansbridge . . . for having produced a dense and well written book whose subject is nothing less ambitious than the theory of democracy and its problems of equality, solidarity, and consensus. Beyond Adversary Democracy, however, is not simply a work of political theory; Mansbridge explores her abstract subject matter by close studies (using ethnographic, documentary, and questionnaire methods) of two small actual democracies operating at their most elemental American levels (1) a New England town meeting ("Selby," Vermont) and (2) an urban crisis center ("Helpline"), whose 41 employees shared a New Left-Counterculture belief in participatory democracy and consensual decision-making. Mansbridge is a force to contend with. It is in our common interest that she be widely read."—Bennett M. Berger, Contemporary Sociology
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Mansbridge, Jane Jebb was born on November 19, 1939 in New York City. Daughter of Ronald and Georgia St. Claire (Mullen) Mansbridge.
Bachelor, Wellesley College, 1961. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1971.
Assistant professor political science, University of Chicago, 1973-1980; associate professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1980-1986; professor political science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1986-1991; Jane W. Long professor arts and science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1991-1996; professor J.F. Kennedy School Government, Harvard University, 1996-1998; Adams professor political leadership and democratic values, Harvard University, since 1998.
( "Beyond Adversary Democracy should be read by everyone ...)
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Political Science Association (vice president 1992-1993, program chair 1990, executive committee 1987-1989, council 1987-1989, president Women's Caucus 1996, Schuck award 1988, Kammerer award 1987), Society Advancement of Socio-Economics (president 1992-1993), International Political Psychology Association (governing council 1993-1994).
Married Christopher Jencks. 1 child, Nathaniel Mansbridge Jencks.