Jack A. Goldstone
Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Jr.
Professor of Public Policy
Eminent Scholar; Director, Center for Global Policy
Curriculum Vita
Education
Harvard University. B.A. magna cum laude 1976, M.A. 1979, Ph.D. 1981.
Areas of Specialization
Political Conflict, Revolutions and Social Movements, Comparative Economic Development
Fellowships and Awards for Research
Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 1984
Fellowship, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1988
Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1992‑93
Sociological Research Association, 1991 (elected)
Society for Comparative Research, 2004 (elected)
American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, for Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, 1993
American Sociological Association, Best Article Awards:
Award for Best Article in Comparative/Historical Sociology, 2003
Honorable Mention 3 times 1987, 1990, 1997
Award for Best Article in Political Sociology, 2003
Award for Best Article on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, 2003
Honorable Mention for Best Article in Social Theory, 2003
Mellon Fellowship for the Study of Contentious Politics, 1995-97
Research Associate, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research 1997
Crayborough Lecture in Comparative History, University of Leiden 1999
Faculty Research Lecturer Award, University of California-Davis, 2003
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Publication, for States, Parties, and Social Movements, 2003
Arnaldo Momigliano Jr. Award, The Historical Society, 2004
Research Grants
U.S. Institute for Peace. Grant for conference and book on "Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century." ($37,900) 1988-89.
Center for European and German Studies, U. of California. Grant for Joint-taught Graduate Course on Global Economic History. ($10,000) 1991-92.
Liberty Fund, Grant for Conference on Revolution and The Prospects for Liberty in Eastern Europe ($36,000). 1993.
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Grant for work on studies of social systems and social conflict. ($15,000). 1996-1997.
Institute for Humane Studies. Grant for study of the collapse of the U.S.S.R. as a revolution. ($8,000). 1997-1998.
American Sociological Association. Grant for Advancement of the Discipline, to fund a conference on the “Origins of Modernity” at UC-Davis, Oct. 1999. ($3,000)
Gifford Center on Nutrition. Grant for a study on population and environmental security issues ($6,000). 1999-2000.
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, U. of California. Grant for quantitative studies of state breakdown ($15,000). 2001-2002.
National Science Foundation. Dissertation Grant in conjunction with Ph.D. candidate Thomas Burr ($7,500). 2001-2002.
MacArthur Foundation Program on Global Peace and Sustainability. Research and Writing Grant on Sources of Political Conflict ($74,000). 2002-2003.
Publications
Books
Forth-coming
A Peculiar Path: The Rise of the West in Global Context, 1500-1850. Under review, Harvard University Press.
2008
Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History 1500-1850. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research: A National Research Council Report (with Larry Garber, John Gerring, Clark Gibson, Mitchell Seligson, and Jeremy Weinstein). Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.
2003
States, Parties, and Social Movements: Protest and the Dynamics of Institutional Change (ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2001
Voice and Silence in Contentious Politics (with Ron Aminzade, Doug McAdam, Elizabeth Perry, William Sewell, Jr., Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1999
Who’s Who in Political Revolutions (ed.) Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books.
1998
The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (Editor-in-chief) Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Books.
1993
Theories of Revolution and the East European Revolutions of 1989, a special issue of Rationality and Society (edited with Karl-Dieter Opp). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
1991
Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century (edited with T.R. Gurr and F. Moshiri). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
1986
Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies (ed.) Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson.
[1994] 2nd edition
[2003] 3rd edition
Recent Articles
2008
“Revolutions.” In Handbook of Comparative Politics, ed. Neil Robinson and Todd Landman. Beverly Hills: Sage.
“Comment on ‘Implication Analysis’” Sociological Methodology
“Modern Revolutions? Yes they are.” Harvard International Review Web-exclusive: http://www.harvardir.org/articles/1685/
“Using Quantitative and Qualitative Models to Forecast Instability.” US Institute of Peace Special Report 204 (March), 16 pp.
“Pathways to State Failure.” Conflict Management and Peace Science August/Sep
“Flash Points and Tipping Points: Security Implications of Global Population Changes, 2007-2050.” Projections: The Journal of the MacKinder Forum
“Capitalist Origins, the Advent of Modernity, and Coherent Explanation.” Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie 33: 119-133.
“Revolution,” in The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd edition). ed. William A. Darity, Jr., vol. 7. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 228-231.
2007
“Unravelling the Mystery of Economic Growth.” World Economics 8: 207-225.
“Tra vecchio e nuovo: le rivoluzioni atlantiche in una prospettiva globale.” [Something Old, Something New: The Atlantic Revolutions in Global Perspective] Contemporanea, Rivista di storia dell ‘800 e del ‘900 10: 135-139.
“Global Report on Conflict, Governance and State Fragility 2007” (with Monty G. Marshall). Foreign Policy Bulletin 17 (Winter): 3-21.
2006
“Scarcity, Crises, and Choice,” an essay on Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Journal of International Affairs 59: 335-346.
“Knowledge – Not Capitalism, Faith, or Reason – was the Key to the Rise of the West.” Historically Speaking 7: 6-10.
“A History and Sociology of Historical Sociology.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 47: 359-369.
“Democratic Transitions” (with David Epstein, Robert Bates, Ida Kristenson and Sharyn O’ Halloran), American Journal of Political
Science, vol. 50, number 3 (July)
“Engineering, Culture, Innovation, and Modern Wealth Creation,” in Innovations and Entrepreneurship in Functional Regions, Uddevalla Symposium 2005, Irene Johansson, ed. Trollhattan, Sweden: University West, pp. 455-474.
“A Historical, Not Comparative, Method: Breakthroughs and Limitations in the Theory and Methodology of Michael Mann’s Analysis of Power,” in An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann, John A. Hall and Ralph Schroeder, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 263-282.
“A Historical, Not Comparative, Method: Breakthroughs and Limitations in the Theory and Methodology of Michael Mann’s Analysis of Power,” in The Social Theory of Michael Mann, John A. Hall and Ralph Schroeder, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 263-282.
2005
How Fast Can you Build a State? – State Building in Revolutions” (with Jaime Becker), in States and Development, Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, pp. 183-210.
2004
“How to Construct Stable Democracies” (with Jay Ulfelder). The Washington Quarterly 28:1, pp. 9-10.
“Response: Reasoning about History, Sociologically.” Sociological Methodology 34:1, pp. 35-61.
“More Social Movements or Fewer? Beyond Political Opportunity Structures to Relational Fields.” Theory and Society 33:3-4, pp. 333-365.
“Case Control Methods.” In Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Beverly Hills, Sage.
“Neither Late Imperial nor Early Modern: Efflorescences and the Qing in World History,” in The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time, Lynn Struve, ed., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, vol. 1, pp. 242-302.
“It's all about State Structure -- New Findings on Revolutionary Origins from Global Data” (with Ted Robert Gurr, Monty Marshall, and Jay Ulfelder). Homo Oeconomicus 21:3, pp. 429-455.
2003
“Europe vs. Asia: Missing Data and Misconceptions.” Science & Society 67: 184-194.
“Comparative Historical Analysis and Knowledge Accumulation in the Study of Revolutions,” in Comparative Historical Analysis, Dietrich Reuschemeyer and James Mahoney, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
“National Security and Population,” in Encyclopedia of Population, Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll, eds. New York: Macmillan, vol. 2, pp. 685-688.
2002
“Theory Development in the Study of Revolutions,” in Theory Development in Sociology, Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch, Jr., eds. Lanham, MD: Rowmanand Littlefield, pp. 194-226.
2002
“States, Terrorists, and the Clash of Civilizations,” in September 11: Context and Consequences. Craig Calhoun, Paul Price, and Ashley Timmer, eds. New York: New Press, pp. 139-158.
“Population and Security: How Demographic Change can Lead to Violent Conflict.” Columbia Journal of International Affairs 56: 245-263.
“Efflorescences and Economic Growth in World History: Rethinking the ‘Rise of the West’ and the British Industrial Revolution.” Journal of World History 13: 323-389.
“Forging Social Order and Its Breakdown: Riot and Reform in U.S. Prisons.” (with Bert Useem). American Sociological Review 67:499-525.
“The Longue Dureé and Cycles of Revolt in European History,” in Early Modern History and the Social Sciences: Testing the Limits of Braudel’s Mediterranean, John Marino, ed. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, pp. 169-187.
2001
“Population and Progress in the Middle Ages,” Population and Development Review 27: 585-596.
“Population, Environment, and Security: An Overview,” in Demography and Security, Myron Weiner and Sharon Stanton Russell, eds. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 38-61.
“Demography, Environment, and Security,” in Environmental Security, Paul Diehl and Nils Petter Gleditsch, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, pp. 84-108.
“Theories of Revolution, The Revolutions of 1989-1991, and the Trajectory of the ‘New’ Russia” [in Russian]. Voprosy Ekonomiki 1:117-123.
“Toward a Fourth Generation of Revolutionary Theory,” Annual Review of Political Science 4:139-187.
2000
“Whose Measure of Reality?” American Historical Review 105: 501-508.
“The State,” in The Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ed. Edgar Borgatta and Rhonda J.V. Montgomery, eds. New York: Macmillan, pp. 2996-3003.
“The Rise of the West -- or Not? A Revision to Socio-economic History.” Sociological Theory 18: 157-194.
Public Service
U.S. Vice-Presidential Task Force on State Failure; Chair of Social and Demographic Issues Group, co-author of Final Report
Consultant to U.S. State Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Agency for International Development
Honors and Awards for Teaching
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 1982
Honor Role for Undergraduate Teaching, Northwestern University, 1985
Certificate for Outstanding Commitment to Undergraduate Researchers, MURALS program, UC Davis, 1991.
Professional Activities
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1984‑87; 1999-
Corresponding Editor, Theory and Society, 1984‑
Editorial Board, Sociological Theory, 1988‑90; Rationality and Society, 1995-
Review Panel, Dissertation Fellowships in Sociology, National Science Foundation 2001
Review Panel, Grants in Sociology, National Science Foundation, 2002
Selection Committee for Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships, 2000
Foreign Policy Studies Review Panel, Social Science Research Council 1989-93
Committee on International Security, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994-95
Advisory Committee, American Academy of Arts and Sciences project on Scarcity, State Capacity, and Violent Conflict. 1994-96
Advisory Committee, Woodrow Wilson Center Project on Environment and Security 1998-
Selection Committee for Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships, 2000
Claude Lambe Fellowship Selection Committee, Institute of Humane Studies, 1997-99
U.S. Institute of Peace, Senior Fellowship Screening Committee 1997
MacArthur Foundation Social Science Research Council Grants in International Security, Screening Committee 1988-91
National Program Committee, Social Science History Association, 1990
Head, Network on Politics, State, and Society, Social Science History Association, 1993
Nominations Committee, Social Science History Association, 1995
Elected Chair, Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association, 1997
Council, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, American Sociological Association, 2002-2005
Council, Section on Theory, American Sociological Association, 2004-
Editorial Board, Cambridge University Press series on Contentious Politics