Professor
Oxford University, 1971

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Office: 3389A Bunche Hall
Phone: (310) 206-4475
Fax: (310) 825-0778
E-mail: pateman@ucla.edu

Mailing Address:
UCLA Department of Political Science
4289 Bunche Hall
Box 951472
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472

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Fields:

Political Theory and Race, Ethnicity and Politics

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Notes:
Carole Pateman received her doctorate from Oxford University, and is a specialist in political theory. She was born in Sussex, England, and has lived in four continents and taught in three. She has been on the faculty at UCLA since 1990. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former Guggenheim Fellow, and a former Fellow at both the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She has been active in the discipline of political science, and was the first woman to be President of the International Political Science Association (1991-94). Her major research has covered three broad areas: democratic theory, theories of original contracts, and feminist political theory. She takes a problem-oriented approach to political theory and is concerned to bring theory together with policy and empirical evidence. Among her publications are Participation and Democratic Theory (19th reprinting 1999), The Problem of Political Obligation, and The Sexual Contract (translated into seven languages). Her current research interests continue her long-standing concern with democratic theory and range over a number of problems, historical and contemporary, centering on rights, citizenship and democratization. Her 2001 Faculty Research Lecture at UCLA on the idea of a basic income presented part of this research. She teaches classes for undergraduates on democratic theory, rights, gender and political theory, and women and politics, and works with students pursuing independent study and honors research. She regularly advises doctoral candidates, and her graduate seminars have covered contemporary political theory, including political obligation and multiculturalism, the history of feminist political thought, and democratic theory. She hopes to develop a class on political theory and the status of animals.

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