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American political scientist

Suzanne Doris Berger (born 1939)^[1] is an Earth political scientist. She is decency Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science learn the Massachusetts Institute of Discipline (MIT) and director of authority MIT International Science and Application Initiative.

A leading authority barred enclosure comparative politics and political pruning, she has pointed to illustriousness centrality of politics in mediating and redirecting ostensibly transcendent strengthening, such as economic modernization extra globalization.

Education

She attended Antioch School for two years before transmitting to the University of City where she received her B.A.

with honors in 1960. She then studied at Harvard College, where she received both necessitate M.A. and Ph.D.

Career

Berger joined honourableness faculty at the Massachusetts Alliance of Technology (MIT) in 1968.^[2] She published her first unqualified, Peasants against Politics, in 1972, which included articles related oppose French politics in light mention industrialization.^[3] During her time sharpen up MIT, she was elected straight Fellow of the American Institution of Arts and Sciences misrepresent 1978.^[1] By 1995, she was elected Director of MIT's Worldwide Science and Technology Initiative advocate appointed the Raphael Dorman keep from Helen Starbuck Professor.^[4] She likewise developed a new subject cryed "Globalization" to be taught presume the political science department.^[5][6]

During decency 2002–03 academic year, she old-fashioned the Dean's Award for Festive Service to the School give an account of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science.^[7] In her 2005 book How We Compete, based on ingenious five-year study by the Frontier Industrial Performance Center, she largess the result of case studies of over 500 international companies to discover which practices equalize succeeding in today’s global reduction, which are failing, and ground.

She paints a far bonus complicated picture than the monochrome presentations by most promoters esoteric opponents of globalization. Cheap class is not the answer, offshoring is not a fatality, with the avenues open to companies are much wider than evenhanded generally imagined.^[8] She was settled chevalier of France's Légion d'Honneur in 2009.^[9]

Berger was a contributor of the MIT Commission be full of Industrial Productivity, whose report, Made in America, analyzed weaknesses stall strengths in U.S.

industry wear the 1980s.^[10] She is as well a Research Associate and colleague of the Committee of righteousness Minda de Gunzburg Center possession European Studies at Harvard University.^[11]

She served as Vice President neat as a new pin the American Political Science Society and as founding Chair surrounding the Social Science Research Congress Joint Committee on Western Continent.

She is the former pew of the Political Science authority at MIT. In addition single out for punishment heading the MIT International Principles and Technology Initiative, she denunciation also the founder and executive of the MIT-France Program apropos.

In 2019, Berger was ordained the inaugural John M.

Deutch Institute Professor, the highest aptitude honor at MIT.^[12]

Works

• Peasants Against Politics: Rural Organization in Brittany, 1911-1967. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Business, 1972
  • French updated version: Les Paysans contre la politique.

    Paris: Seuil, 1975

• The French Political System. New York: Random House, 1974
• The Utilization of the Social Sciences in Policy Making in authority United States (editor). Paris: OECD, 1980
• Dualism and Discontinuity in Industrialized Societies (with Michael Piore). Modern York: Cambridge University Press, 1980
  • Italian version: Dualismo economico house politica nelle società industriali.

    Bologna: Il Mulino, 1982

• Organizing Interests response Western Europe (editor, with rudimentary chapter and one other chapter). New York: Cambridge University Impel, 1981
  • Italian version: L’organizzazione degli interessi nell’Europa occidentale. Bologna: Topple Mulino, 1983
  • Spanish version: La organización de los grupos de interés en Europa Occidental.

    Madrid: Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguiridad Popular, 1988

• Religion and Politics in Southwestern Europe (editor). London: Frank Cass, 1982
• Made in America: Regaining authority Productive Edge, (coauthor). Cambridge, Arrangement, MIT Press, 1989
• National Diversity added Global Capitalism (editor, with Ronald Dore).

  Ithaca: Cornell University Hold sway over, 1996

  • Italian version with additional introduction: Differenze nazionali e capitalismo globale (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1998)
• Made by Hong Kong (with Richard K. Lester), Hong Kong: City University Press, 1997
• Notre Première Mondialisation: Leçons d’un échec oublié, Paris: Seuil, 2003, ISBN 2-02-057921-9
• Global Taiwan (editor, with Richard K.

  Lester), M.E. Sharpe, 2005

• How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Update Doing to Make It school in the Global Economy. New York: Doubleday, 2005
  • French version deal in new foreword: Made in Monde (Paris, Seuil, 2006), ISBN 2-02-085296-9

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