Educated in Paris, Cambridge and San Francisco

University of Chicago, 1960-1964 (National Merit Scholar). B.A. with General and Special Honours in the Social Sciences

London School of Economics, 1964-1966
M.Sc. (Econ) in the History of Political Thought

Nuffield College, Oxford, 1965-1968 (Advanced Student). D.Phil (Faculty of Social Studies)

Magdalen College, Oxford 1967-1971 (Junior Lecturer in Modern History)

University of Reading, 1968-1971 (Junior Research Fellow in Politics and French Studies)

University of Manchester, 1971-1983 (Lecturer in Government); 1983-1994 (Senior Lecturer in Government) (seconded to Department of History, 1992-1994); 1994-1998 (Reader in the History of Political Thought)

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1973-1975 (David Thomson Senior Research Fellow)

Trinity College, Cambridge, 1978-1979 (Visiting Fellow Commoner)

University of California at Los Angeles, Summer 1981 (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Elected member of Johnson Club, 1985; Fellow of Royal Historical Society, 1990

Professorial Visiting Fellow at the John Olin Center for the History of Political Culture, University of Chicago, 1990

British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow, 1993-1994

Visiting Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1994

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1994-1995, Member of School of Social Science

Fellow of Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, 1995-1996

Leverhulme Research Fellow, 1996-1997

Fellow of Collegium Budapest, 1997-1998

Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter, 1999-2003

Visiting Professor, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest, 1999

Jean Monnet Fellow, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, 2001-2002

Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Special Program in the Humanities and in the Department of Political Science, Yale University, 2002-2004

Senior Lecturer in the Special Program in the Humanities and in the Department of Political Science, Yale University, 2004-2007.