Margaret Keck

Margaret Keck (born January 12, 1949) is an American political scientist and Brazilianist, currently an Academy Professor and professor emeritus of political science at Johns Hopkins University. Keck studies the Politics of Brazil, environmental politics, international activist movements and networked advocacy.

Margaret Keck
Born	Margaret Elizabeth Keck (1949-01-12) January 12, 1949 (age 74)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia University
Awards	Grawemeyer Award Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, APSA Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award
Scientific career
Fields	Political science Latin American studies
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University

Career

Keck graduated from Columbia University with a PhD in 1986.^[1] She began doing research in Brazil in 1982.^[1]

Keck has written four books.^[1] Her first book, The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil, was published in 1992. Ben Ross Schneider wrote that this "definitive study" was one of the first "solid analyses in English of the Workers' party".^[2] In 1998, she and Kathryn Sikkink published Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy in International Politics, which studied the role of advocacy networks that transcend national politics and have effects in multiple countries.^[3] The book won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order in 1999, making Keck and Sikkink the first women ever to win that award.^[4]

Her 2007 book, Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society, was co-authored with Kathryn Hochstetler. The book reviews the evolution of environmental politics and activism in Brazil. In a review in Foreign Affairs, Richard Feinberg wrote that the book demonstrates how networks of activists affect policy formation.^[5] The book received the 2009 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize for the best book on environmental politics and policy from the Science, Technology & Environmental Politics section of the American Political Science Association.^[6] Her most recent book, Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics, was co-authored with Rebecca Neaera Abers and published in 2013.

Keck retired from Johns Hopkins University in 2016.^[7] That year, she received the Elinor Ostrom STEP Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association.^[7] In 2019, a citation analysis by the political scientists Hannah June Kim and Bernard Grofman listed Keck as the 15th most cited active emeritus political scientist at an American university.^[8]

Keck's work has been featured in Foreign Affairs^[5] and the North American Congress on Latin America,^[9] and cited in outlets like The Washington Post,^[10] The Chronicle of Higher Education,^[11] and GreenBiz.^[12]

Selected works

• The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil (1992)
• Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy in International Politics. With Kathryn Sikkink (1998)
• "Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink: Land Use and Water Policy in São Paulo," in Livable Cities, Peter Evans ed. (2000)

Selected awards

• Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, with Kathryn Sikkink, 1999^[4]
• Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, American Political Science Association, 2009^[6]
• Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award, American Political Science Association^[7]

References

1. "Margaret Keck Profile". Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
2. Schneider, Ben Ross (June 1993). "Reviewed Works: The Brazilian Workers' ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern São Paulo. by John D. French; The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil by Margaret E. Keck; Without Fear of Being Happy: Lula, the Workers' Party and Brazil by Emir Sader, Ken Silverstein". American Political Science Review. 87 (2): 521–522. doi:10.2307/2939101. JSTOR 2939101.
3. "Summary of Keck and Sikkink: Activists beyond borders". Adam R. Brown. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
4. "Professor Wins 'Improving World Order' Award". Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
5. Feinberg, Richard (March 2008). "Capsule Review of Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
6. "Science, Technology & Environmental Politics Section Award Recipients". American Political Science Association. 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
7. "Congratulations" (PDF). Johns Hopkins University Department of Political Science Newsletter. Johns Hopkins University. 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
8. Kim, Hannah June; Grofman, Bernard (April 2019). "The Political Science 400: With Citation Counts by Cohort, Gender, and Subfield" (PDF). PS: Political Science & Politics. 52 (2): 296–311. doi:10.1017/S1049096518001786. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
9. Keck, Margaret E. (25 September 2007). "Brazil's PT: Socialism as Radical Democracy". North American Congress on Latin America. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
10. Green, Jessica F. (23 September 2019). "The U.N. Climate Summit starts today. Here's what it can — and can't — achieve". The Washington Post. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
11. Farrell, Henry; Knight, Jack (10 March 2019). "How Political Science Can Be Most Useful". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
12. Méndez, Michael (11 January 2020). "How Oakland's environmental justice movement transformed California's regulatory culture of climate change". GreenBiz. Retrieved 19 January 2020.