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Robert Lane
Professor Emeritus in Political Science
robert.lane@yale.edu
"R.E. Lane is Eugene Meyer Professor Emeritus of Political Science. He is a Fellow of the British Academy as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was previous President of the American Political Science Association, as well as President of the International Society of Political Psychology. He was also a Research Associate at Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and has been a visiting scholar at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the London School of Economics, and the Australian National University, among others.
Books of Professor Lane's have been translated into Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Hungarian (and portions of books into French and Chinese). Political Ideology received the Philip Converse Book Award in 2008. Since 1994, the American Political Science Association has given the Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology published in the past year, which his own book – The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies – received in 2001. He is the founder of the National Senior Conservation Corps (Gray is Green), where he briefly discusses his activism. His work has been recognized with an Connecticut Governor's Climate Change Leadership Award in 2008 as well as an Encore.org Purpose Prize Fellowship in 2009."
Affiliations and Memberships:
National Senior Conservation Corps
Articles and Manuscripts:
Are Humans Misfits in Market Democracies? The Spinach Pie Papers, Takeaway Two
The Timid Rebel
The Regulation of Businessmen: Social Conditions of Government Economic Control
The Market Experience
The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies
The Liberties of Wit, Humanism, Criticism, and the Civic Mind
Problems in American Government: An Introduction to Political Analysis
Political Thinking and Consciousness - The Private Life of the Political Mind
Political Life: Why and How People Get Involved in Politics
Political Ideology: Why the American Common Man Believes What He Does
An Introduction to Political Analysis: Teacher's Manual
After the End of History: The Curious Fate of American Materialism (Evolving Values for a Capitalist World)
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