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    Benjamin Ginsberg

    Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Director of the Washington Center for the Study of American Government, and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author or coauthor of 20 books including Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced, Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public, Politics by Other Means, The Consequences of Consent, and The Captive Public. Before joining the Hopkins faculty in 1992, Ginsberg was Professor of Government at Cornell University. His most recent book is The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters. Ginsberg’s published research focuses on political development, presidential politics, participation, and money in politics.

    Benjamin Ginsberg

    Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Director of the Washington Center for the Study of American Government, and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author or coauthor of 20 books including Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced, Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public, Politics by Other Means, The Consequences of Consent, and The Captive Public. Before joining the Hopkins faculty in 1992, Ginsberg was Professor of Government at Cornell University. His most recent book is The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters. Ginsberg’s published research focuses on political development, presidential politics, participation, and money in politics.

    Books by Benjamin Ginsberg

    • Politics by Other Means: Politicians, Prosecutors, and the Press from Watergate to Whitewater

      Benjamin Ginsberg, Martin Shefter

      Third Edition, Paperback, 2002

      As scandals increasingly dominate the political agenda, Benjamin Ginsberg and Martin Shefter argue in this illuminating book, the United States is entering an era of postelectoral politics, with...

    • We the People

      Benjamin Ginsberg, Theodore J. Lowi, Margaret Weir, Caroline J. Tolbert, Andrea L. Campbell, Megan Ming Francis

      Core Fourteenth Edition, Paperback, 2022

      The #1 book to help students engage and participate

    • We the People

      Benjamin Ginsberg, Caroline J. Tolbert, Andrea L. Campbell, Megan Ming Francis, Theodore J. Lowi, Margaret Weir

      Fifteenth Edition, Paperback, 2025

      The #1 book for American government, now even more interactive

    • We the People

      Benjamin Ginsberg, Caroline J. Tolbert, Andrea L. Campbell, Megan Ming Francis, Theodore J. Lowi, Margaret Weir, Robert J. Spitzer

      Fifteenth Essentials Edition, Paperback, 2025

      The #1 book for American government, now even more interactive

    • We the People

      Benjamin Ginsberg, Caroline J. Tolbert, Andrea L. Campbell, Megan Ming Francis, Theodore J. Lowi, Margaret Weir

      Fifteenth Edition, E Book, 2025

      The #1 book for American government, helping students engage and participate in politics.

    • We the People

      Benjamin Ginsberg, Caroline J. Tolbert, Andrea L. Campbell, Megan Ming Francis, Theodore J. Lowi, Margaret Weir, Robert J. Spitzer

      Fifteenth Essentials Edition, E Book, 2025

      The #1 book for American government, helping students engage and participate in politics.

    • Presidential Power: Unchecked & Unbalanced

      Matthew Crenson, Benjamin Ginsberg

      Hardback, 2007

      A new history and evaluation of the "imperial presidency."

    • American Government: A Brief Introduction

      Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Stephen Ansolabehere

      Sixteenth Edition, Paperback, 2021

      Think critically about American politics

    • American Government, Core: Power and Purpose

      Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Stephen Ansolabehere, Hahrie Han

      Seventeenth Core Edition, Paperback, 2023

      The gold standard analytical approach reinvigorated

    • American Government: Power and Purpose

      Theodore J. Lowi, Benjamin Ginsberg, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Stephen Ansolabehere, Hahrie Han

      Seventeenth Edition, E Book, 2022

      The gold standard analytical approach reinvigorated

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