Jeffrey Friedman Max Weber Fellow, IASS B.A., Brown University M.A., U. C. Berkeley Ph.D. & M.A., Yale University

Jeffrey Friedman received his BA in philosophy and history from Brown, an MA in European history from Berkeley, and an MA and Ph.D. in political science from Yale. He has taught political theory at Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Barnard. While in history graduate school, he founded Critical Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics and Society, which he has edited for 18 years, and where he has confined most of his publication, including " Locke as Politician" (1988), "Public Opinion and Democracy" (1996), "What's Wrong with Libertarianism" (1997), "Public Ignorance and Democratic Theory" (1998), "After Democracy, Bureaucracy?" (2000), "Public Opinion: Bringing the Media Back In," (2003), "Popper, Weber, and Hayek: The Epistemology and Politics of Ignorance" (2005), and "Democratic Competence in Normative and Positive Theory" (2006). He is the editor of The Rational Choice Controversy: Economic Models of Politics Reconsidered (Yale University Press, 1996).