Politics By Other Means: The Declining Importance Of Elections In America

by Benjamin Ginsberg

Argues that committees, courts, and the media have taken over many of the functions of elections

Genres: Nonfiction, Political Science

Paperback

First published March 1, 1990

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Bradley Jones · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disregard this, Frank

[Dwayne · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was an irritating book. The authors seemed to lack the basic human sense of linear cohesion, as the accounts they related jumped back and forth through history, seemingly at random, and usually several times within any given chapter. I might have been able to finish it, had it not been for this.