Adam Przeworski

Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of European Studies, New York University

Adam Przeworski, born on May 5, 1940, Warsaw, is a Polish-American professor of Political Science, one of the main important theorists of Analytical Marxism and democratic societies, theory of democracy and political economy. He is currently Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of European Studies and Professor of Politics and Economics at the Wilf Family Department of Politics of New York University.

Professor Przeworski graduated from Warsaw University and received his M.A. of Philosophy and Sociology in 1961. Soon afterwards, he moved to the United States, where he received his Ph.D. of Political Science at Northwestern University in 1966. He continued his postdoctoral study of sociology from Polish Academy of Sciences in 1967. He taught at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor. Since 1991, Przeworski has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also member of American Political Science Association, American Economic Association and Latin American Studies Association.

To date, he has authored 13 books and numerous articles, including Capitalism, Democracy, Science (2007), Does Politics Explain the Economic Gap between the United States and Latin America? (2006), Globalization and Democracy (2005), Freedom to Choose and Democracy (2003), Democracy and the Market(1991), etc. In 2001, he shared the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the book Democracy and Development. In 2010, he was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for "raising the scientific standards regarding the analysis of the relations between democracy, capitalism and economic development".