Adam Przeworski is Carroll and Milton Professor Emeritus in the Department of Politics of New York University.
18 Facts About Adam Przeworski
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Adam Przeworski is a scholar of democratic societies, theory of democracy, social democracy and political economy, as well as an early proponent of rational choice theory in political science.
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Adam Przeworski was born in 1940 in Warsaw, Poland when the country was occupied by Nazi Germany.
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Adam Przeworski's uncle Andrzej Przeworski was a Polish footballer, referee and manager.
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Adam Przeworski's wife is a former senior manager at the OECD and the UN and the founding director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy.
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Adam Przeworski graduated from Warsaw University in 1961 with a MA in philosophy and sociology.
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In Warsaw, Przeworski met a Northwestern University political science professor, R Barry Farrell.
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Farrell persuaded Adam Przeworski to move to the United States to study political science.
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Adam Przeworski held visiting appointments in India, Chile, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.
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Adam Przeworski joined the September Group of analytical Marxists in 1979 or 1980; he left the group in 1995.
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Adam Przeworski published two broad overviews of theories of the state and political economy: The State and the Economy Under Capitalism and States and Markets.
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Two enduring concerns in Adam Przeworski's research have been: the compatibility of democracy and capitalism, and the possibility of a democratic path to socialism.
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Adam Przeworski acknowledged that an important influence on his thinking throughout his life has been the works of Karl Marx.
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In Capitalism and Social Democracy, and in the companion volume with John Sprague Paper Stones: A History of Electoral Socialism, Adam Przeworski argues that European socialist parties in the first half of the 20th century faced a sequence of electoral dilemmas.
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One reviewer argues that in this book Adam Przeworski has gone beyond the standard minimalist conception of democracy associated with Joseph Schumpeter.
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Thereafter, Adam Przeworski explores the extent to which these conditions can be met and hence what limits are faced by the ideal of democracy.
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Adam Przeworski holds that the problems have deep economic, social, and cultural roots.
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On February 2025, Adam Przeworski began documenting his thoughts and reaction to the second Trump administration as a diary on Substack.