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John Markoff (sociologist)
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Professor
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of Sociology
Sociology
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and History
History
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at the University of Pittsburgh
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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".
His major publications include:
- The Great Wave of Democracy in Historical Perspective (1994), ISBN 0-8014-9658-6
- Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change (1996), ISBN 0-8039-9019-7
- The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution (1996), ISBN 0-271-01538-1
- Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de Doléances of 1789 (1998), ISBN 0-8047-2669-8