Gerald Benjamin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3627714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald Benjamin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald |
| FAMILY NAME | Benjamin |
| SIGNATURE | BENJAMIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York , New Paltz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On His Own Terms
A smart, enthusiastic undergraduate visited to discuss her term paper topic for PLS 301 State Government. I pointed to a 45-year-old campaign picture on the wall and asked, “By the way, who was that guy?” She had no clue. Even though I was sitting under a banner hanging from my office ceiling, also dating to the 1970 campaign, that read “Governor Rockefeller for Governor.” The larger-than-life governor, who won office in the year I entered high s…
Investing in Democracy
Journal Article Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative Governance by Carmen Sirianni Get access Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative Governanceby Carmen Sirianni. Washington, DC, Brookings Institution Press, 2009. 608pp. Paper, $26.95. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin State University of New York, New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly…
First Person Political
Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism
Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism. By Thad Kousser. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 288p. $ 70.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. Thad Kousser is interested in both term limits and legislative professionalism because they effect fundamental changes in the environment in which lawmakers work. Drawing upon Richard Fenno's paradigm, the author assumes that legislators will behave rationally, seeking to maximize th…
Real Democracy
Journal Article Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How it Works Get access Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How it Works by Frank M. Bryan. Chicago, Universityof Chicago Press, 2004. 320 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $19.00. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin SUNY, New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 120, Issue 4, Winter 2005, Pages 682–683, …
Bringing Representation Home
Journal Article Bringing Representation Home: State Legislators Among Their Constituencies Get access Bringing Representation Home: State Legislators Among Their Constituencies by Michael A. Smith. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 2003. 227 pp. $34.95. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin State University of New York, New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 119, Issu…
Orrego-Salas, Juan
Carrillo(-Trujillo), Julián
Term Limits in the State Legislatures
Journal Article Term Limits in the State Legislatures Get access Term Limits in the State Legislatures by Fred I. Greenstein. New York, The Free Press, 2000. 282 pp. $25.00. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin State University of New York, New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 4, Winter 2000, Pages 664–665, https://doi.org/10.2307/2657644 Published: 15 Februar…
Robert Howe Connery
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The Third House
Time, Politics and Policies
Governors and Legislatures
Journal Article Governors and Legislatures: Contending Powers, by Alan Rosenthal Get access Governors and Legislatures: Contending Powers by Alan Rosenthal. Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 1990. 223 pp. Paper, $16.95. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin State University of New York-New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 1, Spring 1991, Pages 162–164, https://doi.or…
America's Ailing Cities
The Legislative Committee Game
Tribune of the People
Urban Reform and its Consequences
Journal Article Urban Reform and its Consequences: A Study in Representation, by Susan Welch and Timothy Bledsoe Get access Urban Reform and its Consequences: A Study in Representation by Susan Welch and Timothy Bledsoe. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1988. 154 pp. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $10.95. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin New York City Charter Revision Commission Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
The Government/Press Connection
Governor Reagan, Governor Brown
Journal Article Governor Reagan, Governor Brown: A Sociology of Executive Power, by Gary C. Hamilton and Nicole Woolsey Biggart Get access Governor Reagan, Governor Brown: A Sociology of Executive Power by Gary C. Hamilton and Nicole Woolsey Biggart. New York, Columbia University Press, 1984. 268 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $17.50. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin The Rockefeller Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
The Diffusion of Executive Power in American State Constitutions
The comparative study of the development of state constitutional provisions concerning executive power, within the framework of diffusion theory, has value for a general understanding of executive authority in contemporary America. American chief executive offices were designed with a complex package of powers and limits, all viewed by their creators as mutually contingent and in delicate balance. Since the creation of each executive office, cons…
The Communications Revolution in Politics
The Vice President as Policy Maker
Journal Article The Vice President as Policy Maker: Rockefeller in the Ford White House, by Michael Turner Get access The Vice President as Policy Maker: Rockefeller in the Ford White House by Michael Turner. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1982. 252 pp. $29.95. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin State University of New York at New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 98…
Japan in the World of the 1980’s
Essay| April 01 1982 Japan in the World of the 1980’s Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin Professor of Political Science, State University of New York, New Paltz Gerald Benjamin served during the 1980-1981 academic year as Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Tokyo and the Japanese Foreign Service Training Institute. He has written or edited four books and many articles and has served as a political commentator for Japanese new…
Computers and Politics
Introduction Part I. Speaking Up for the Disenfranchised 1. Fighting for the Rights of American Labor 2. Awakening a Nation to the Sins of Slavery 3. Setting a Revolutionary Agenda for Women's Rights Dissident Voices/Common Threads I Part II. Struggling to Form a More Perfect Union 4. Promoting Free Love in the Victorian Age 5. Crusading against the Barbarism of Lynching 6. Educating America on the Merits of Socialism 7. Following Anarchy toward …
Music in Latin America
Computers and Politics
Introduction Part I. Speaking Up for the Disenfranchised 1. Fighting for the Rights of American Labor 2. Awakening a Nation to the Sins of Slavery 3. Setting a Revolutionary Agenda for Women's Rights Dissident Voices/Common Threads I Part II. Struggling to Form a More Perfect Union 4. Promoting Free Love in the Victorian Age 5. Crusading against the Barbarism of Lynching 6. Educating America on the Merits of Socialism 7. Following Anarchy toward …
Governors and Legislatures
Journal Article Governors and Legislatures: Contending Powers, by Alan Rosenthal Get access Governors and Legislatures: Contending Powers by Alan Rosenthal. Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 1990. 223 pp. Paper, $16.95. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin State University of New York-New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 1, Spring 1991, Pages 162–164, https://doi.or…
Urban Reform and its Consequences
Journal Article Urban Reform and its Consequences: A Study in Representation, by Susan Welch and Timothy Bledsoe Get access Urban Reform and its Consequences: A Study in Representation by Susan Welch and Timothy Bledsoe. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1988. 154 pp. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $10.95. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin New York City Charter Revision Commission Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Real Democracy
Journal Article Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How it Works Get access Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How it Works by Frank M. Bryan. Chicago, Universityof Chicago Press, 2004. 320 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $19.00. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin SUNY, New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 120, Issue 4, Winter 2005, Pages 682–683, …
The Diffusion of Executive Power in American State Constitutions
The comparative study of the development of state constitutional provisions concerning executive power, within the framework of diffusion theory, has value for a general understanding of executive authority in contemporary America. American chief executive offices were designed with a complex package of powers and limits, all viewed by their creators as mutually contingent and in delicate balance. Since the creation of each executive office, cons…
On Making Teaching “U”
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America's Ailing Cities
The Legislative Committee Game
The Quest for Justice
On Making Teaching “U”
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The Process of Change in Federal - Local Relations
The Quest for Justice
Rockefeller of New York
Leaders and Leadership
Rockfeller of New York
Journal Article Rockefeller of New York: Executive Power in the Statehouse. By Robert H. Connery and Gerald Benjamin. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979. 480 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $15.00.) Get access Philip J. Funigiello Philip J. Funigiello College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, March 1980, Pages 990–991, htt…
Music in Latin America
Japan in the World of the 1980’s
Essay| April 01 1982 Japan in the World of the 1980’s Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin Professor of Political Science, State University of New York, New Paltz Gerald Benjamin served during the 1980-1981 academic year as Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Tokyo and the Japanese Foreign Service Training Institute. He has written or edited four books and many articles and has served as a political commentator for Japanese new…
Computers and Politics
Introduction Part I. Speaking Up for the Disenfranchised 1. Fighting for the Rights of American Labor 2. Awakening a Nation to the Sins of Slavery 3. Setting a Revolutionary Agenda for Women's Rights Dissident Voices/Common Threads I Part II. Struggling to Form a More Perfect Union 4. Promoting Free Love in the Victorian Age 5. Crusading against the Barbarism of Lynching 6. Educating America on the Merits of Socialism 7. Following Anarchy toward …
The Vice President as Policy Maker
Journal Article The Vice President as Policy Maker: Rockefeller in the Ford White House, by Michael Turner Get access The Vice President as Policy Maker: Rockefeller in the Ford White House by Michael Turner. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1982. 252 pp. $29.95. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin State University of New York at New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 98…
The Communications Revolution in Politics
Governor Reagan, Governor Brown
Journal Article Governor Reagan, Governor Brown: A Sociology of Executive Power, by Gary C. Hamilton and Nicole Woolsey Biggart Get access Governor Reagan, Governor Brown: A Sociology of Executive Power by Gary C. Hamilton and Nicole Woolsey Biggart. New York, Columbia University Press, 1984. 268 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $17.50. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin The Rockefeller Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
The Diffusion of Executive Power in American State Constitutions
The comparative study of the development of state constitutional provisions concerning executive power, within the framework of diffusion theory, has value for a general understanding of executive authority in contemporary America. American chief executive offices were designed with a complex package of powers and limits, all viewed by their creators as mutually contingent and in delicate balance. Since the creation of each executive office, cons…
The Government/Press Connection
Urban Reform and its Consequences
Journal Article Urban Reform and its Consequences: A Study in Representation, by Susan Welch and Timothy Bledsoe Get access Urban Reform and its Consequences: A Study in Representation by Susan Welch and Timothy Bledsoe. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1988. 154 pp. Cloth, $27.50; paper, $10.95. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin New York City Charter Revision Commission Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
America's Ailing Cities
The Legislative Committee Game
Tribune of the People
Governors and Legislatures
Journal Article Governors and Legislatures: Contending Powers, by Alan Rosenthal Get access Governors and Legislatures: Contending Powers by Alan Rosenthal. Washington, D.C., CQ Press, 1990. 223 pp. Paper, $16.95. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin State University of New York-New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 1, Spring 1991, Pages 162–164, https://doi.or…
The Third House
Time, Politics and Policies
Robert Howe Connery
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Term Limits in the State Legislatures
Journal Article Term Limits in the State Legislatures Get access Term Limits in the State Legislatures by Fred I. Greenstein. New York, The Free Press, 2000. 282 pp. $25.00. Gerald Benjamin Gerald Benjamin State University of New York, New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 4, Winter 2000, Pages 664–665, https://doi.org/10.2307/2657644 Published: 15 Februar…
Orrego-Salas, Juan
Carrillo(-Trujillo), Julián
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