Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park

University of Maryland, College Park

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 Department of Government and Politics. He is a former Fellow of King's College

King's College, Cambridge

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, Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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; a founding Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution

Brookings Institution

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. Alperovitz also served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and as a Special Assistant in the Department of State.