John Markoff (born 1942) is an American sociologist working as a
distinguished professor
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In the United States
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of
sociology
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and
history
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at the
University of Pittsburgh
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.
Education
Markoff received a Bachelor of Arts from
Columbia University
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in 1962 and a PhD from
Johns Hopkins University
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in 1972.
Career
Prior to taking a position at University of Pittsburgh in 1972, Markoff taught at the
City College of New York
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. He has also done research at the
Pablo de Olavide University
Pablo de Olavide University (''Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO)'' in Spanish) is a public university in Seville, Spain. UPO offers both undergraduate and graduate programs in the traditional majors, as well as in biotechnology, environmental s ...
in
Seville
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.
He has published extensively in sociological, historical, and political science journals. He states that his research "concerns the history of democratization, considered as a multi-continental process across several centuries".
Representative publications
*''The Great Wave of Democracy in Historical Perspective'' (1994),
*''Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change'' (1996),
*''The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution'' (1996),
*''Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789'' (1998),
See also
*
History of democracy
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References
External links
John Markoff webpage at University of Pittsburgh
1942 births
Living people
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Revolution theorists
American sociologists
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