Last year, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 204 new members. They include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, and civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders.
The new class was inducted at a ceremony on October 11, 2014, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The list of the 204 new members is located at https://www.amacad.org/members.
In addition to the APSA members noted in the October issue of PS, we recognize these additional awardees.
Graham Allison is director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. As “Founding Dean” of the modern Kennedy School, under his leadership, from 1977 to 1989, a small, undefined program grew twenty-fold to become a major professional school of public policy and government. Allison has served as Special Advisor to the Secretary of Defense under President Reagan and as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans under President Clinton, where he coordinated US Department of Defense strategy and policy toward Russia, Ukraine, and the other states of the former Soviet Union. He has the sole distinction of having twice been awarded the Department of Defense’s highest civilian award, the Distinguished Public Service Medal, first by Secretary Caspar Weinberger and second by Secretary Bill Perry. He served as a member of the Defense Policy Board for Secretaries Weinberger, Carlucci, Cheney, Aspin, Perry, and Cohen.
Allison’s first book, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971), was released in an updated and revised second edition (1999) and ranks among the all-time bestsellers with more than 450,000 copies in print. His latest book (2013), Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World (co-authored with Robert Blackwill), has been a bestseller in the US and abroad. His previous book, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, is now in its third printing and was selected by the New York Times as one of the “100 most notable books of 2004.”
James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is professor of communication and professor of political science (by courtesy). He is also director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy and chair of the department of communication. Fishkin received his BA from Yale and holds a PhD in political science from Yale as well as a second PhD in philosophy from Cambridge. He is the author of a number of books including When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation (Oxford University Press, 2009). His previous books include Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform (Yale University Press, 1991), The Dialogue of Justice (Yale University Press, 1992), The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy (Yale University Press, 1995). With Bruce Ackerman he is co-author of Deliberation Day (Yale University Press, 2004). With Peter Laslett he is also co-editor of volumes five, six, and seven of the Philosophy, Politics and Society series. Fishkin has been a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge as well as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and a Guggenheim Fellow.
He is best known for developing Deliberative Polling®, a method of public consultation that has been used in more than 20 countries to get informed and representative public input on policy and electoral issues.
