Benjamin Ginsberg

Benjamin Ginsberg, Ph.D., is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Center for Data Analytics, Policy, and Government for Advanced Academic Programs at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous books on American government and politics including:

• Congress: The First Branch (co-author with Kathryn Wagner Hill)
• Presidential Government
• Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced (co-author with Matthew Crenson)
• Government Analytics (co-editor with Jennifer Bachner and Kathryn Wagner Hill)
• Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public
• The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State
• Embattled Democracy: Politics and Policy in the Clinton Era
• Democrats Return to Power: Politics and Policy in the Clinton Era
• Politics by Other Means: Politicians, Prosecutors, and the Press from Watergate to Whitewater
• The Captive Public: How Mass Opinion Promotes State Power
• Do Elections Matter?
• American Government: Freedom and Power
• The Consequences of Consent: Elections, Citizen Control and Popular Acquiescence
• Poliscide: Big Government, Big Science, Lilliputian Politics (co-editor with Theodore J. Lowi)
• What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People (co-author with Jennifer Bachner)
• The American Lie: Government by the People and other Political Fables

The textbook he co-authors with Theodore J. Lowi is the most widely used American government textbook in the country.

Ginsberg received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1973 and was Professor of Government at Cornell until 1992 when he joined the Hopkins faculty.