Political Science

Emily Hauptmann

Professor

3356 Friedmann Hall
(269) 387-5695

Emily Hauptmann received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. Her primary interests are in contemporary democratic theory (including deliberative democratic theory and rational choice theory) and in the history of political science as a discipline. She is currently working on a book about the changing meaning of “political theory” in the U.S. during the postwar period. An on-line report about her research at the Rockefeller Archive Center is forthcoming at http://archive.rockefeller.edu. Among her publications are: Putting Choice Before Democracy: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory (SUNY, 1996); “Can Less be More? Leftist Deliberative Democrats’ Critique of Participatory Democracy,” Polity (2001); “The Reasonable and the Rational Capacities in Political Analysis,” Paul Clements, co-author, Politics and Society (2002); “A Local History of 'the Political',” Political Theory (2004), and “Defining ‘Theory’ in Postwar Political Science,” in G. Steinmetz, ed., The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and its Epistemological Others (Duke University Press, 2005). She is currently serving as Executive Co-Director of the Association for Political Theory, a professional association for political theorists and philosophers. Dr. Hauptmann regularly teaches the following undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of political thought and contemporary political theory: PSCI 3600, 3610, 6620, 6630 and 6650.

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