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Peter Lange

Thomas A. Langford University Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Political Science
Box 90005, Durham, NC 27708-0005
220 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and former Provost (1999-2014) and Chair of the Political Science department (1996-1999). His principal interests are global higher education, comparative politics and political economy and twentieth century European politics. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of Union Democracy and Liberal Corporatism: Exit, Voice and Wage Regulation in Postwar Europe, co-author of Unions, Change and Crisis: French and Italian Union Strategy and the Political Economy. He is also co-editor of Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism, as well as Italy in Transition, State, Market and Social Regulation: New Perspectives on Italy. Prior to becoming Provost in 1999, his work  focused on the relationship between globalization, domestic politics and economic policy and performance in the advanced industrial democracies. He has taught at Harvard University and was a Research Fellow of the Center for European Studies there. He serves on the editorial board of several journals. In 1991-1992 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, CA and in 1994 co-chaired a Summer Institute at the Center in "Internationalization and Domestic Performance in Postwar Europe", a follow-up to which was held in the summers of 1998 and 1999 in Palo Alto and Berlin. He was also Chair of the Joint Committee on Western Europe of the Social Science Research Council. He served as Vice-Provost for Academic and International Affairs at Duke from 1994-1996 and Chair of the Curriculum Review Committee for Arts and Sciences at Duke.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Thomas A. Langford University Distinguished Professor Emeritus · 2018 - Present Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Emeritus of Political Science · 2018 - Present Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published June 12, 2018
Anne Yoder Stepping Down at Duke Lemur Center
Published March 9, 2015
Lange Honored By American Association of University Administrators
Published May 27, 2014
A Talk With Peter Lange

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Recent Publications


The communist parties of Italy, France and Spain: Postwar change and continuity: A casebook

Book · June 30, 2021 First published in 1981, The Communist Parties of Italy, France, and Spain presents a comparative and integrative overview of the development of three Communist parties in the postwar Europe. Through the systematic presentation of the most important docume ... Full text Cite

Unions, change and crisis: French and Italian union strategy and the political economy, 1945-1980

Book · April 14, 2016 First published in 1982, Unions, Change and Crisis represents the first detailed, comparative, historical and theoretically grounded study of two of the major trade union movements of Europe. It brings together the results of the first part of the first ma ... Full text Cite

Preface

Book · November 12, 2012 Cite
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Recent Grants


Extramural Research Facilities Improvement Program

Construction/RenovationPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2014

Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Genomics

Construction/RenovationPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2004

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Education, Training & Certifications


Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 1975 Ph.D.
Oberlin College · 1967 B.A.