Charles Fredrick Sabel (born December 1, 1947) is an American
academic
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, ...
and professor of Law and Social Science at the
Columbia Law School
Columbia Law School (Columbia Law or CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked ...
. His research centers on public innovations,
European Union governance, labor standards, economic development, and ultra-robust networks.
Sabel attended
Harvard University and earned a B.A. in Social Studies in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Government in 1978.
He was a faculty member in the departments of
Political Science and
Science, Technology, and Society at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1977 and 1995.
He joined the faculty at
Columbia University in 1995. He is the recipient of a 1982
MacArthur Fellowship. Together with
Joshua Cohen and others he developed the theory of directly deliberative polyarchy or democratic experimentalism, which is related to the concept of
deliberative democracy
Deliberative democracy or discursive democracy is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision-making. It adopts elements of both consensus decision-making and majority rule. Deliberative democracy differs from traditional de ...
. This concept mainly builds upon Japanese production methods interpreted as the institutionalization of decentralized learning.
His 1984 book, ''The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity'', co-written with
Michael J. Piore
Michael Joseph Piore (born August 14, 1940) is an American economist and professor of economics and political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research centers on labor economics, immigration, and innovation. He was awa ...
, has been widely influential among labor scholars.
Sabel and others designed his mountain house via “a continuous mutual disruption,” which is a recurring theme in his scholarly work. He describes such disruptions saying, “What you do determines what I do, and vice versa. By the end of our collaboration, neither of us could have anticipated the result.”
Charles Sabel received the honor of a Professorship through The Radboud Excellence Initiative at
Radboud University Nijmegen in
the Netherlands. Sabel will begin his time in the Radboud Excellence Initiative in June 2015.
Publications
* ''Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World'', Princeton University Press, 2022. Coauthored with
David G. Victor.
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References
External links
Official homepage
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1947 births
Harvard University alumni
Columbia University faculty
Living people
MacArthur Fellows
Columbia Law School faculty