Douglas W. Rae

Who is Douglas W. Rae?

Douglas Whiting Rae is Richard Ely Professor of Management and Political Science at Yale University. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his Ph.D. adviser was Austin Ranney. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former Guggenheim fellow, a former Fellow of Stanford University's Institute for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a winner of the Hallett Prize and the Hurfurth Prize, he served as Chief Administrative Officer of the City of New Haven, Connecticut in 1990–1991. He has contributed to the BBC, The New Republic, and the New York Times.

Rae has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, was a fellow of Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and has received numerous honors and prizes for his research. He has consulted widely and variously to the parliaments of Spain, Italy, & the Netherlands Antilles, select corporate leaders, to numerous American cities and universities, and to the BBC.