Isaac Balbus

Isaac Balbus, Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago. CV

1970 Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Chicago titled "Rebellion and response: a comparative study of the administration of justice following urban ghetto revolts in three American cities." In 1966 he completed a thesis titled "The evolution of the Community Action Program; a case study in American policy making."


 * Executive Council, Caucus for a New Political Science, 1973-1974.

Selected Publications

 * Governing Subjects: Introduction to the Study of Politics, Routledge, (forthcoming December 2009).
 * Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father. (Routledge, 1998).
 * Marxism and Domination, (Princeton University Press, 1982).
 * The Dialectics of Legal Repression: Black Rebels before the American Courts, (Russell Sage Foundation, 1973)
 * Mourning and Modernity: Essays in the Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Society (Other Press, 2005).
 * “Ruling Elite Theory vs. Marxist Class Analysis", Monthly Review 23, 1 (May, 1971).
 * “The Concept of interest in Pluralist and Marxian Analysis", Politics & Society 1, 2 (February, 1971), 151-177.

Selected Activities and Honors

 * Co-winner of the C. Wright Mills Prize of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, for - The Dialectics of Legal Repression, 1974.

Other Awards

 * 1967-68 Ford Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellow
 * 1967-68 National Science Foundation Dissertation Fellow

Discussion/Critiques of his work

 * William Domhoff, "Some Friendly Answers to Radical Critiques," Insurgent Sociologist 2:2 (January/February 1972), pp.27-39.
 * Heinz-Gerhard Haupt and Stephan Leibfried, "Marxian Analysis of Politics or Theory of Social Change?: Toward A Marxian Theory of the Political Domain", Politics Society 1972; 3; 33.