Ronald Schmidt

Biographic Data

ID82484
NAMERonald Schmidt
GIVEN NAMESRonald
FAMILY NAMESchmidt
SIGNATURESCHMIDT R
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia State University, Long Beach
ORCID0000-0003-0187-4001
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS51
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • A Man Out of Time: Machiavelli’s Contribution and the Reawakening of our Political Imagination

    Open AccessRonald Schmidt, Ronald J SchmidtARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2026

    Niccolo Machiavellli employed an anachronistic conversation between ancient historical authorities and modern political actors to imagine alternative forms of republican life at a time of sterility and oligarchy. He shows us, thereby, how to emulate his method at our own moment of democratic crisis. Indeed, contemporary attacks on democratic legitimacy, equality, citizen agency, and free speech by a small group of conspiracy-minded, corrupt and w…

  • The Uncanny Friend

    Ronald Schmidt, Jr Ronald J Schmidt et al.BOOKReading Politics with Machiavelli2018

    What does this chapter have to offer our particular moment? The chapter takes Wendy Brown’s argument as the starting point, that neoliberal logic, by substituting market logic for any other normative or political position, has created a crisis in the democratic imagination, as well as in institutional politics. Beyond that, the chapter argue, the weakening of democratic ideas and norms has provided an opportunity for a politics of racism and auth…

  • Reflections of a Political Scientist

    Open AccessRonald SchmidtARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2018

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  • Apsa Committees

    Open AccessChristine Distefano, Hank Jenkins-Smith et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2015

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  • Democratic theory and the challenge of linguistic diversity

    Open AccessRonald SchmidtARTICLELanguage Policy2014Cited by: 8References: 7

  • How PGI came about

    Shaun Bowler, Timothy V Kaufman-Osborn et al.ARTICLEPolitics Groups and Identities2013Cited by: 1

    We've been asked to give a bit of background as to how and why Politics, Groups, and Identities (PGI) came into being. The story begins in 2005 with the suggestion by former executive director of t

  • Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America by Jason Frank and Hybrid Constitutions: Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege and Culture in Colonial America, by Vicki Hsueh

    Open AccessRonald Schmidt, Ronald J SchmidtARTICLEContemporary Political Theory2013

  • "All Good Things Come to the City": The Micropolitics of Michael J. Shapiro's The Time of the City

    Ronald Schmidt, Ronald J SchmidtARTICLETheory & Event2011

    All Good Things Come to the City":the Micropolitics of Michael J. Shapiro's The Time of the City Ronald J. Schmidt Jr. (bio) Michael J. Shapiro , The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy and Genre, Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2010 US $26.70 (paper), US $145 (cloth). 212 pages. ISBN 978-0-415-78053-7 The first time I read Robert Dahl's Who Governs? was in graduate school, and I thought it was a fun read. It was intriguing as a way to study ci…

  • Books by Our Readers

    Open AccessRonald Schmidt, Yvette Alex-Assensoh et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2010

    This section lists upcoming book publications across the broad field of political science. If your first-edition book is scheduled for publication in the three months before the next issue of PS , enter the details of publication in the box found at the PS Web site: http://www.apsanet.org/section_223.cfm . We hope that spreading word of upcoming work will help keep our members even more attuned to new scholarship within the discipline

  • Who Counts as an American? The Boundaries of National Identity by Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

    Open AccessRonald SchmidtARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2010

    Journal Article Who Counts as an American? The Boundaries of National Identity by Elizabeth Theiss-Morse Get access Who Counts as an American? The Boundaries of National Identityby Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009. 240pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $24.99. Ronald Schmidt, Sr. Ronald Schmidt, Sr. California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political S…

  • Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century

    Open AccessRonald Schmidt, Rodney E Hero et al.BOOKNewcomers, outsiders, and insiders2009

    How has the arrival of new racial and ethnic groups affected the political gains of long-standing minorities in the United States? Over the past four decades, the United States has experienced the largest influx of immigrants in its history. Not only has the ratio of European to non-European newcomers changed, but recent arrivals are coming from the Asian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, South America, and other regions which have not previously sup…

  • Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century

    Rodney E Hero, Ronald Schmidt et al.BOOKNewcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders2009

    "The authors have done a commendable and impressive job of addressing a topic of long-lasting and increasing significance in U.S. politics." ---F. Chris Garcia, University of New Mexico "This is a path-breaking book that will be read across disciplines beyond political science." ---James Jennings, Tufts University Over the past four decades, the United States has experienced the largest influx of immigrants in its history. Not only has the ratio …

  • Acculturation Orientations and Social Relations Between Immigrant and Host Community Members in California

    Open AccessRichard Y Bourhis, Geneviève Barrette et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…2009Cited by: 35References: 46

    This study, based on the Interactive Acculturation Model, investigates the acculturation orientations of undergraduates attending a multicultural university in Los Angeles County. European Americans ( n = 178), African Americans ( n = 88), Asian immigrants ( n = 165), and Hispanic immigrants ( n = 109) participated in the questionnaire study. Results show that individualism and integrationism are the acculturation orientations preferred by Europe…

  • Racialization and language policy: The case of the U. S. A

    Ronald Schmidt, Ronald Schmidt SrARTICLEMultilingua2006Cited by: 4References: 7

    Employing critical discourse analysis, this paper interrogates the question of whether it is racist to pursue an English-only language policy in the contemporary ideological context of the United States. This question has generated heated controversy in the United States for over two decades. Proponents of bilingualism or linguistic pluralism often charge that English-only advocates are motivated by racial animosity and that their English-only pr…

  • Embodied at the Creation

    Open AccessRonald Schmidt, Ronald J SchmidtARTICLEPolitical Theory2004

  • Language Policy and Identity Politics in the United States

    Krista Mcqueeney, Krista B McQueeney et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2001

  • Latina/o Identities: Social Diversity and U.S. Politics

    Open AccessRonald Schmidt, Edwina Barvosa‐Carter et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2000Cited by: 1References: 1

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  • An Update on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in Political Science: What the Profession Should Be Doing

    Open AccessValerie Martinez-Ebers, Manuel Avalos et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2000Cited by: 2References: 1

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  • A Selected Bibliography on Race/Ethnicity and Public Policy in the United States

    Ronald SchmidtARTICLEEthnic studies review1993

    Other| January 01 1993 A Selected Bibliography on Race/Ethnicity and Public Policy in the United States Ronald Schmidt Ronald Schmidt California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Explorations in Ethnic Studies (1993) 16 (1): 85–92. https://doi.org/10.1525/ees.1993.16.1.85 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Sha…

  • Cultural Pluralism and Public Administration: The Role of Community-Based Organizations

    Open AccessRonald Schmidt, Ronald J SchmidtARTICLEThe American Review of Public…1988References: 3

    Community-based organizations (CBOs) have become important vehicles for articulating a growing ethnic consciousness in the U.S. This essay first examines the reasons behind the development of CBOs in recent decades, and then considers the effectiveness of CBOs as instruments for enhancing cultural pluralism

  • Theodore H. Erb

    Robert Delorme, Richard Delorme et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics1977

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