Paul N. Goldstene a retired professor of the Government Department at C.S.U.

California State University

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 Sacramento

Sacramento

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, is an acclaimed author and teacher of Political Theory. He is the author of numerous essays, reviews, and books. Goldstene was raised in New York

New York

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 and is a graduate of The University of Arizona, where he received his PhD with a doctoral dissertation on John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith

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in 1970.

"Goldstene teaches contemporary political thought and theory at California State University, Sacramento, where he received the Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award in 1995. He is the author of The Collapse of Liberal Empire, Yale University Press (1997), Chandler & Sharp (1980); Democracy in America: Sardonic Speculations, Bucknell House (1988); The Bittersweet Century, Chandler & Sharp (1989); as well as numerous articles and reviews for scholarly publications."

External links

• The Politics of Technology - National Radio Project Transcript
• Political Theory Forum - Two Articles by Goldstene.