Theodore Lowi papers

Theodore J. Lowi was an American political scientist who was the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions teaching in the Government Department at Cornell University. Lowi taught at Cornell for 49 years, first joining the faculty as an instructor in 1959, leaving in 1965 for a position at the University of Chicago, and returning in 1972. He became the John L. Senior Professor Emeritus in 2015. He was a member of the core faculty of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. His area of research was the American government and public policy, and his publications include The End of the Republican Era (1995), The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States (W.W. Norton 1969,1979), and The Pursuit of Justice (co-authored with Robert F. Kennedy) (New York, 1964). The American Political Science Association named him the top political scientist in 1978. He became the organization’s president in 1991, and served as president of the International Political Science Association from 1997–2000. Honors include an honorary degree, University of Pavia (2008) and Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2013). (sources: Wikipedia, PS: Political Science and Politics, Volume 52, Issue 1, January 2019, pp.141-148)