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Paul Starr (May 12, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize

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-winning professor of sociology
Sociology

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 and public affairs
Public administration

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 at Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
. He is also the co-editor (with Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner is an American journalist, writer, and economist. Kuttner is the co-founder and current co-editor of The American Prospect, which was created in 1990 as "an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas," according to its mission statement....
) and co-founder (with Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner is an American journalist, writer, and economist. Kuttner is the co-founder and current co-editor of The American Prospect, which was created in 1990 as "an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas," according to its mission statement....
 and Robert Reich
Robert Reich

Robert Bernard Reich is an American politician, academic, writer, and political commentator. He served as the twenty-second United States Secretary of Labor, serving under President of the United States Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997....
) of The American Prospect
The American Prospect

The American Prospect is a monthly United States political magazine dedicated to liberalism in the United States. It bills itself as a journal "of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics" which focuses on United States politics and public policy....
, a notable liberal magazine which was created in 1990. In 1994 he founded the Electronic Policy Network, or Moving Ideas, which is an online public policy resource.

At Princeton University, Starr holds the Stuart Chair in Communications and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School.






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Paul Starr (May 12, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
-winning professor of sociology
Sociology

Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....
 and public affairs
Public administration

Public administration can be broadly described as the development, implementation and study of branches of government public policy. The pursuit of the public good by enhancing civil society and social justice is the ultimate goal of the field....
 at Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
. He is also the co-editor (with Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner is an American journalist, writer, and economist. Kuttner is the co-founder and current co-editor of The American Prospect, which was created in 1990 as "an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas," according to its mission statement....
) and co-founder (with Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner is an American journalist, writer, and economist. Kuttner is the co-founder and current co-editor of The American Prospect, which was created in 1990 as "an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas," according to its mission statement....
 and Robert Reich
Robert Reich

Robert Bernard Reich is an American politician, academic, writer, and political commentator. He served as the twenty-second United States Secretary of Labor, serving under President of the United States Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997....
) of The American Prospect
The American Prospect

The American Prospect is a monthly United States political magazine dedicated to liberalism in the United States. It bills itself as a journal "of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics" which focuses on United States politics and public policy....
, a notable liberal magazine which was created in 1990. In 1994 he founded the Electronic Policy Network, or Moving Ideas, which is an online public policy resource.

At Princeton University, Starr holds the Stuart Chair in Communications and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School. The Social Transformation of American Medicine
The Social Transformation Of American Medicine

The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a book written by Paul Starr and published by Basic Books in 1982. It won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction as well as the Bancroft Prize....
 won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction has been awarded since 1962 for a distinguished book of non-fiction by an American author that is not eligible for consideration in any other category....
 as well as the Bancroft Prize
Bancroft Prize

The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948 by a bequest from Frederic Bancroft....
. His recent book The Creation of the Media received the 2005 Goldsmith Book Prize
Goldsmith Book Prize

The purpose of the Goldsmith Book Prize is to recognize works that "[improve] government through an examination of the intersection between press, politics, and public policy." The prize is awarded to the book published in the previous year that best exemplifies the fulfillment of this goal....
.

In 1993, Starr was the senior advisor for President
President of the United States

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 Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton

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's proposed health care reform plan
Clinton health care plan

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. He is also the president of the Sandra Starr Foundation.

Starr holds a B.A. from Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton, New Jersey is located in Mercer County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. Princeton University has been sited in the town since 1756....
 and is married to Ann Baynes Coiro. He has four children and three stepchildren.

Books

  • Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism (Basic Books, 2007).
  • The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications (Basic Books, 2004). Goldsmith Book Prize.
  • The Logic of Health Care Reform, rev. and enlarged edition (Penguin, 1994); orig. ed. (Grand Rounds Press, 1992).
  • The Politics of Numbers: The Population of the United States in the 1980s (Russell Sage, 1987), edited with William Alonso.
  • The Social Transformation of American Medicine
    The Social Transformation Of American Medicine

    The Social Transformation of American Medicine is a book written by Paul Starr and published by Basic Books in 1982. It won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction as well as the Bancroft Prize....
     (Basic Books, 1982 [actually published in January 1983]). 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction; Bancroft Prize in American History, C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Social Problems, and James Hamilton Prize of the American College of Health Care Executives.
  • The Discarded Army: Veterans After Vietnam (Charterhouse, 1974), assisted by James Henry and Raymond Bonner. Introduction by Ralph Nader
    Ralph Nader

    Ralph Nader is an American attorney at law, author, lecturer, political activism, and perennial candidate for presidency as an independent candidate for President of the United States in United States presidential election, 2004 and United States presidential election, 2008, and a Green Party candidate in 1996 and 2000....
    .
  • The University Crisis Reader, 2 vols., edited with Immanuel Wallerstein (Random House, 1971).
  • Up Against the Ivy Wall, with Jerry Avorn
    Jerry Avorn

    Jerome "Jerry" Lewis Avorn, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women?s Hospital....
     and others (Atheneum, 1968).


External links

  • and Anne-Marie Slaughter
    Anne-Marie Slaughter

    Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs and current Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University....
     on Bloggingheads.tv
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