Benjamin Ginsberg (political scientist)

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  • The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters (2011) Oxford University Press
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  • The Value of Violence
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  • Essentials of American Politics
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  • Trumping Democracy
  • A Guide to the United States Constitution
  • Electoral deadlock: Politics and policy in the Clinton era
  • The Sibling Rivalry Monster
  • American Government: Power and Purpose
  • American Government: A Brief Introduction
  • Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition
  • Anti-Semitism on the Campus: Past and Present
  • American Government
  • Jews in American Politics: Essays
  • From Antisemitism to Anti-Zionism: The Past & Present of a Lethal Ideology
  • Analytics, Policy, and Governance
  • Analyzing American Government
  • Big Brother and the Grim Reaper: Political Life After Death
  • Let's Talk Soft Drinks: The Story of a Great Industry
  • The Dark Side of Politics
  • America's State Governments
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    References

    1. "Benjamin Ginsberg". Johns Hopkins University. 13 March 2015. Retrieved July 4, 2024.
    2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Benjamin Ginsberg Administrative Appointments. Johns Hopkins". Johns Hopkins University. 2009-10-29. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Mark Crispin Miller (February 8, 1987). "SUCKERS FOR ELECTIONS (book review)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-10-29. review of: THE CAPTIVE PUBLIC How Mass Opinion Promotes State Power. By Benjamin Ginsberg
    4. Interview on January 23, 2017 on C-SPAN's Q & A . Ginsberg said he was libertarian because his Wikipedia biography said he was libertarian.
    5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Robert Heineman (2002). "Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public (book review)". The Independent Review (quarterly journal). Retrieved 2009-10-29. Crenson and Ginsberg argue that as government has burgeoned, Americans have been transformed from citizens who are effective political participants into customers who are recipients of government services.
    6. 1 2 Robert Shogan (May 5, 1994). "Politics – Shad and Senate Candidates Both Feeling the Heat in Virginia – State's contentious slate converges on bipartisan fish cookout. The voters smell desperation campaigning". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-10-29. Parties mean less and less, and each so-called party is breaking up into various wings.
    7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Benjamin Ginsberg". Johns Hopkins University. 2009-10-29. Archived from the original on 2012-12-11. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
    8. Cornell University Announcements: College of Arts and Sciences, 197475. Cornell University. July 1, 1974. p. 104.
    9. "Cornell Professor Takes New Look At Eisenhower's Military-Industrial-Complex Speech". TradeKorea. Vol. 2, no. unknown. 1991. p. 12.
    10. "Cornell University Student Organization Directory: Spring '86". Cornell Daily Sun. February 5, 1986. p. 17.
    11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Americans participating less and less in civic life". USA Today. Associated Press. June 5, 2004. Retrieved October 29, 2009. But the decline of mass political participation is not simply a consequence of the decay of civil society brought on by TV, suburbanization and busy lives.
    12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Kerry Lauerman (November 3, 2002). "Polls Apart". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2009-10-29. review of: DOWNSIZING DEMOCRACY: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public, By Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg[ permanent dead link ]
    13. 1 2 Ronald Brownstein (January 10, 2001). "Bush's Call for Civil Tone Gets Rude Response". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-10-29. (Washington's toxic climate) ... It is structural, in other words, not personal
    14. 1 2 3 Robert Shogan (May 4, 1998). "Politicians Embrace Status Quo as Nonvoter Numbers Grow". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-10-29. Politicians who have risen to power in a low-turnout political environment have little to gain and much to fear from an expanded electorate, said Ben Ginsberg
    15. 1 2 3 4 5 Chuck Raasch, Gannett News Service (July 3, 2004). "What does it mean to be a patriot?". USA Today. Retrieved October 29, 2009. Patriotism, in part, means sacrifice and a willingness to die for one's country, said Benjamin Ginsberg, a Johns Hopkins University political scientist and co-author of Downsizing Democracy.
    16. Adam Bernstein (November 7, 2006). "News Photographer Arnie Sachs; Took Pictures of 11 Presidents". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
    17. "The image world has lost the following: ARNIE SACHS". Masters Of Imaging. 2009-10-29. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
    18. Ariel Alexovich (October 31, 2007). "The Early Word: Democratic Debate Reviews". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-10-29. It's Wal-Mart and Kmart – they're occupying the same space
    19. James D. Besser (November 4, 2004). "Mixed News for GOP Jews". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 2009-10-29. When the numbers are added up, we will probably find that Jewish money was especially important to the Republicans this year
    20. Grigg, William Norman (Jun 16, 2003). "FDR's patriot purge. (Cover Story History)". The New American. Retrieved 2009-10-29. federal investigators 'were free to devote a great deal of energy and attention to the tax records and finances of politicians who sought to use anti-Semitic appeals to attack the Roosevelt administration'
    21. Jonathan Rosenblum (May 10, 2002). "Time to Switch Political Horses?". Hamodia. Retrieved 2009-10-29. As Johns Hopkins University political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg explained last week in the Jewish Week: 'Jews have always been the brains, the wallet and the legs of the Democratic Party'
    22. "Has Polling Killed Democracy?". University of Virginia – Miller Center of Public Affairs. April 25, 2008. Archived from the original on 2010-04-09. Retrieved 2009-10-29. a panel discussion titled 'Has Polling Killed Democracy' that will examine public opinion polling's effect on American democracy. Mark Blumenthal, Benjamin Ginsberg...
    23. The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters (2011) Oxford University Press
    24. Pearce, Joshua (2016). "Are you overpaying your academic executive team? A method for detecting unmerited academic executive compensation". Tertiary Education and Management. 22 (3): 189–201. doi:10.1080/13583883.2016.1181198. S2CID   148102314.
    25. "The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters". December 2011.
    26. Grafton, Anthony (2011-11-24). "Our Universities: Why Are They Failing?". The New York Review of Books. 58 (18).
    27. Matthew Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg (2009). "Downsizing Democracy". JHU Press. ISBN   9780801878862 . Retrieved 2009-10-29.
    28. Benjamin Ginsberg was interviewed on 12-9-2014 on C-SPAN's BookTV.
    29. Interview on January 23, 2017 on C-SPAN's Q & A
    Benjamin Ginsberg
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    Born1947 (age 7677)
    Occupation(s)Chair, Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies
    Academic background
    Education University of Chicago