Stephen Macedo

Stephen Macedo

Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics

Stephen Macedo's writings range across the fields of political theory, ethics, American constitutionalism and public policy, with an emphasis on liberalism and its critics, and the roles of civil society and public policy in promoting good citizenship. He is author of Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2000). He has also written The New Right v. The Constitution and Liberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism. Among his edited volumes are Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacy and Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement. Macedo has taught at Harvard University and at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He earned his B.A. at the College of William and Mary, earned Masters degrees at the London School of Economics and Oxford University, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at Princeton University.

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