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
1989-2000 Director of
Urban Studies and Planning,
1988-96 Associate Professor of Political Science.
Adjunct Associate Professor of History,
1987-88 Visiting Professor of Political Science,
1984-87 Associate Professor of Government,
1979-83 Assistant Professor of Government,
1974 Internal Evaluator, Youth Community
Studies Program,
1972-74 Adjunct Lecturer,
1972 Staff Member to the Chancellor's
Advisory Committee on the Status of Women,
education
Ph.D. Political Science,
M.Sc. Politics (Political Sociology),
B.A. Urban Affairs,
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
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
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)