AMY BRIDGES

 

 

 

Department of Political Science                                                 13378 Heston Place

University of California, San Diego                                          San Diego, CA  92130

La Jolla, California  92093-0521                                                       (619) 481-2580

(619) 534-7706                                                                        abridges@ucsd.edu

         

EMPLOYMENT

 

1996-     Professor of Political Science, Adjunct Professor of History

    University of California, San Diego

1989-2000  Director of Urban Studies and Planning, University of California,

                        San Diego

1988-96    Associate Professor of Political Science. Adjunct Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

1987-88    Visiting Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

1984-87    Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University

1979-83    Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University

1974         Internal Evaluator, Youth Community Studies Program, Staten Island Community College, City University of New York

1972-74    Adjunct Lecturer, City University of New York

1972         Staff Member to the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women, City University of New York

 

education

 

Ph.D.        Political Science, University of Chicago, 1980

M.Sc.       Politics (Political Sociology), London School of Economics and Political Science, 1971

B.A.          Urban Affairs, University of Chicago, 1970

 

 

honors and AWARDS

 

2000         to write The Progressive Era in the Western States, American

Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship, and National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Univeristy Professsors, 2001-2.

1999                  for Morning Glories, Municipal Reform in the Southwest Best Book  

Published in 1997 in North American Urban History, Urban History Association

1998                  for Morning Glories, Municipal Reform in the Southwest, Best Book

Published in 1997 on Urban Politics, American Political Science Association,  Urban Political Research Section  

1987         National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study

1978         American Association of University Women, Dissertation Fellowship


 

 

pROFESSIONAL activities

 

2003-        Member, Editorial Board, Studies is American Political Development

2001         Program Chair, Western Political Science Association

2000                  Section Chair, Politics and History, Western Political Science

                    Association Meetings

1999         Great Britain panelist, Fulbright Fellowships

1998         Political Science panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities

1998         with David Vogel, Program Chair, Politics and History Section, Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association     

1996-2003 Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Policy History

1993-5      Member, Executive Committee, Western Political Science Association

1991-3      Member, Editorial Board, Western Political Quarterly

1991-3      Member, Editorial Board, Urban Affairs Quarterly

1991         Member, Executive Committee, Urban Politics Section, American Political Science Association

1990         Section Chair, History and Political Science, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association

1990         Section Chair, Urban and Local Government, Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association

1989         Founded, with David Brady, American Political Science Association Organized Section, Politics and History

1988         Political Science Panelist, NEH Fellowships

1988         Section Chair, History and Political Science, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association

1985         Member, Ralph Bunche Award Committee, American Political Science Association

1980-81    Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

1973-80    Member, Editorial Board, Politics and Society

1972-75    Member, Editorial Board, Review of Radical Political Economics

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

and Jessica Hills, “Not in Kansas Anymore: Populists in Western States” Annual Meeings of the Midwest Political Science Assn, Chicago, April 3-6, 2003

and Katherine Underwood, "Life After Districts" in Minorities at the Millenium , Glenwood, 1999

 

and Richard Kronick, "Writing the Rules to Win the Game, The Middle Class Regimes of Municipal Reformers" Urban Affairs Review, May 1999

 

"Textbook Municipal Reform" Urban Affairs Review, September 1997

 

Morning Glories, Municipal Reform in the Southwest, Princeton University Press, 1997

"Creating Cultures of Reform," Studies in American Political Development, Spring 1994

"Winning the West to Municipal Reform," Urban Affairs Quarterly, June 1992

"Politics and Growth in Sunbelt Cities," in Ray Mohl, editor, Searching for the Sunbelt, University of Tennessee Press, 1990

"Boss Tweed and V.O. Key in Texas," in Heywood Sanders and Frank Miller, editors, Urban Texas: Politics, Race, and Development, Texas A&M Press, 1990

"Rethinking the Origins of Machine Politics," in John Mollenkopf, et. al., Power, Culture, and Place, Russell Sage, 1988

"Becoming American, The Working Classes of the United States Before the Civil War,"  in Aristide Zolberg and Ira Katznelson, editors, Working Class Formation: Patterns in Nineteenth Century United States and Europe, Princeton University Press, 1986

A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics, Cambridge University Press, 1984.  Paperback, Cornell University Press, 1987

"Another Look at Plutocracy and Politics in Antebellum New York City," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 97, No. 1 (Spring 1982)

"Paradigms, Politics, and Policies: Notes on Social Science and the Cities" (co-authored with Kenneth Finegold), in Clement Cottingham, editor, Race, Poverty, and the Urban Underclass, D.C. Heath, 1982

"Comparative Policy Analysis and Health Planning Processes Internationally" (co-authored with T.R. Marmor), Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Fall 1980), pp. 419-30

"Urban Locality and Externally Induced Voluntary Associations" (co-authored with R. Taub, S. Lindholm, P. Otti, and G. Surgeon), American Journal of Sociology,      May 1977

"Comparative Politics and Health Policies: Notes on Benefits, Costs, and Limits" (co-authored with T.R. Marmor and W. Hoffman), in D. Ashford, editor, Comparing Public Policies, New Concepts and Methods, Sage Yearbooks in Politics and Public Policy, Vol. 4, 1977.


 

"The Other Side of the Paycheck: Monopoly Capital and the Structure of Consumption" (co-authored with B. Weinbaum), Monthly Review, July-August 1976.

"Pedagogy by the Oppressed" (co-authored with H. Hartman), Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 6, No. 4, 1975.

"Nicos Poulantzas and the Marxist Theory of the State," Politics and Society, Vol 4, No. 2, 1974

 

 

Commentary, BOOK REVIEWS

 

Path Dependence, Sequence, History, Theory”  Studies in American Political

Development Vol.14 #1, 2000

Review of Evan Cornog, The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828.  Journal of American History 72 #2 (September 2000)

 

On a Decade of Politics and History, Clio  Vol.11 #2 (Spring/Summer 2000)

Review of James J. Connolly, The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston 1900-1925. Journal of Interdisciplinary History XXXI:1 (Summer 2000), pp. 135-7.

Review of Melvin G. Holli, The American Mayor: the Best and Worst Big-City Leaders.  American Historical Review, Vol. 105 #3, (June 2000) p. 948

Review of Kevin Mattson, Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy during the Progressive Era.  Journal of Politics 61 #1 (February 1999) pp. 232-3

Review of Daniel Feller, The Jacksonian Promise: America 1815-1840. Jounal of Southern History, Vol. 63, #2 (May 1997)

Review of Kevin Boyle, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, Political Science Quarterly, Spring, 1997 

"Is it Past time to End the Mean Season?"  review of William Julius Wilson,  When Work Disappears: the World of the New Urban Poor, San Diego Union Tribune, November 15, 1996

"Rethinking the Commercial Republic," comments on Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution in Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Winter 1992)

Review of Richard B. Stott, Workers in the Metropolis in Journal of Economic History, September 1992

Review of Jerome Mushkat, Fernando Wood: A Political Biography in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Spring 1992

Review of Robert B. Fairbanks and Kathleen Underwood, editors, Essays on Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America in Journal of San Diego History, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Winter 1991)

Review of Richard L. McCormick, The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 102, No. 4, 1987-8

Review of Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic, New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class 1788-1850 in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 101, No. 1, 1986

Review of Melvin G. Holli and Paul M. Green, editors, The Making of the Mayor, Chicago, 1984 in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 100, No. 1 (Spring 1985).

Review of Wayne J. Urban, Why Teachers Organized in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 99, No. 2 (Summer 1984)

Review of Thomas M. Guterbock, Machine Politics in Transition in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 96, No. 2 (Summer 1981)

Review of Jack Newfield and Paul DuBrul, The Abuse of Power: The Permanent Government and the Fall of New York in Working Papers for a New Society, Vol. VI, No. 4 (July/August 1978)

"An Annotated Bibliography on Race and Public Policy in the United States" (co-authored with Ira Katznelson), in D. Ashford, T.J. Pempel and P. Katzenstein, A Comparative Bibliography in Public Policy, Sage Publications, 1977

Review of Thomas T. Archdeacon, New York City, 1664-1710, Conquest and Change in American Journal of Sociology, May 1977

Review of R.N. Hunt, The Political Ideas of Marx and Engels, Vol. I, Marxism and Totalitarian Democracy, 1818-1850 in Science and Society, Vol. XL, No. 2 (Summer 1976)