Name J. Hollingsworth | ||
Books The Whirligig of Politics: The Democracy of Cleveland and Bryan | ||
Joseph Rogers Hollingsworth (born 1932) is an American historian and sociologist and Emeritus Professor of history and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, known for his work on the governing of capitalist economies, especially the American economy.
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Life and work
Hollingsworth obtained his MA at Emory University, and in 1960 his PhD in history at the University of Chicago.
After his graduation he started his academic career at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois. In 1964 he moved to the University of Wisconsin, where he was appointed associate professor of history, and full professor of history in 1969, and also Professor in History in 1985. He was visiting scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge, the Trinity College, Cambridge, and at the Institute for Nonlinear Science at the University of California, San Diego. At the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences he was Torgny Segerstedt Chair. On June 2, 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Uppsala University, Sweden He was appointed fellow at the American Philosophical Society, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Hollingsworth's research interests are described as "an attempt to explain the reasons for variation among countries, over time, and in different research organizations in the rate at which major discoveries in biomedical science occur. He is also engaged in a cross-national and historical research project that examines why countries varied in their capacity to be innovative in science-based industries during the twentieth century."
Selected publications
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