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Gordon Lloyd

Robert and Katheryn Dockson Professor of Public Policy
Professor Emeritus 1997-2023
School of Public Policy

Biography

Gordon Lloyd is the Robert and Katheryn Dockson Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in economics and political science at McGill University. He completed all the course work toward a doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago before receiving his master of arts and PhD degrees in government at Claremont Graduate School. The coauthor of three books on the American founding and sole author of a book on the political economy of the New Deal, he also has numerous articles, reviews, and opinion-editorials to his credit. His latest coauthored book, The New Deal & Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry, was published in 2013, and he most recently released as editor, Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, in September 2014. He is the creator, with the help of the Ashbrook Center, of four highly regarded websites on the origin of the Constitution. He has received many teaching, scholarly, and leadership awards including admission to Phi Beta Kappa and the Howard White Award for Teaching Excellence at Pepperdine University. He served on the National Advisory Council for the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Presidential Learning Center through the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

Education

  • Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1973, Distinction
  • M.A., Claremont Graduate School, 1968
  • B.A., McGill University, Montreal, 1963

 

  • Equality of Opportunity: A Century of Debate (Hoover Institution Press, June 2023)
  • How Public Policy Became War with David Davenport (Hoover Institution Press, 2019)
  • The Bill of Rights: Core Documents (Ashbrook Center, 2019)
  • The Constitutional Convention: Core Documents (Ashbrook Center, 2018)
  • Rugged Individualism: Dead or Alive? with David Davenport (Hoover Institution Press, 2017)
  • The American Founding: Core Documents (Ashbrook Center, 2017)
  • Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (Ashbrook Center, 2015)
  • The Two Narratives of Political Economy with Nicholas Capaldi (Wiley Scrivener, 2011)
  • The New Deal & Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry with David Davenport (Hoover Institution Press, 2013)
  • The Two Faces of Liberalism: How the Hoover-Roosevelt Debate Shapes the 21st Century (M&M Scrivener Press, 2006)
  • The Essential Antifederalist, Second Edition: Essential Arguments and Foundation Documents 1176-1791, editor with W. B. Allen (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002)
  • The Essential Bill of Rights : Original Arguments and Documents, editor with Margie Lloyd (University Press of America, 1998)
  • The Essential Antifederalist, editor with W. B. Allen (University Press of America, 1985)

Topics

  • Bill of Rights
  • California Constitution
  • Common Law
  • Government
  • Political Economy
  • Slavery
  • Statecraft
  • Supreme Court
  • The New Deal