Richard Franklin Bensel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3962531 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Franklin Bensel |
| PRENOMES | Richard Franklin |
| SOBRENOME | Bensel |
| ASSINATURA | BENSEL R F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9316-7675 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Founding of Modern States
The Founding of Modern States is a bold comparative work that examines the rise of the modern state through six case studies of state formation. The book opens with an analysis of three foundings that gave rise to democratic states in Britain, the United States, and France and concludes with an evaluation of three formations that birthed non-democratic states in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Through a comparati…
The Opening Dilemma
Democratic states often claim that their authority rests upon the “will of the people” as expressed through representative institutions. However, there is an irresolvable conundrum that undermines that claim: the “opening dilemma” that invariably attends the founding of democratic states during which those representative institutions are created. While familiar to democratic theorists, the “opening dilemma” has many hitherto unexplored dimensions…
Lost in Translation
The NOMINATE algorithm has become the most important analytical tool used in the study of the United States Congress. As such, congressional scholars have developed a great many social conventions, practices, and assumptions that enable interpretation of the statistical artifacts the algorithm produces. However, as many of these scholars recognize, serious problems emerge whenever we try to translate these statistical artifacts into language and …
Reforming Jim Crow
Yankee Leviathan
Valor and Valkyries
Politics in Time
Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis. By Paul Pierson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 108p. $49.50 cloth, $19.95 paper.Paul Pierson opens his book with a fictional metaphor in which he imagines “the trendiest new restaurant in town, charmingly named ‘The Modern Social Scientist.’” He invites you to tour the restaurant as “the chef explains that the kitchen is divided into two parts.” On one side, the chef pro…
The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
During the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, or in wooden cabins so isolated that even neighbors had difficulty finding them. Their votes have come down to us as election returns reporting tens of millions of officially sanctioned democratic acts. Neatly arrayed in columns by office, candidate, and party, these returns are routinely …
The Tension between American Political Development as a Research Community and as a Disciplinary Subfield
John Gerring's methodological critique of American political development can be viewed from at least three perspectives. First and most generally, Gerring proposes procedural and analytical standards that should apply to all the social and natural sciences. As a methodological virtue, for instance, conceptual clarity strengthens the underpinnings of knowledge, regardless of the substantive focus. Rigorous specification of causal relations is equa…
The American Ballot Box
Between 1850 and 1868, the United States struggled through a long and bloody Civil War, attempted to reconfigure southern class and economic relations, settled much of the western prairie, and began the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society. During these two decades, Americans went to the polls, whether located in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, rural churches set in the midst of the southern cotton belt, wooden cabins so iso…
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
In the last twenty-five years, historians have been losing interest in economic history, a subject now taught mainly by economists, and in political history, a subject now taught by almost no one outside political science departments unless the period in question happens to be the postwar moment of Cold War and civil rights. The political scientists who have meanwhile been rethinking and rewriting the history of American politics in the absence o…
Capital, Labor, and State
Chapter 1 The Battle Between Capital and Labor in America Chapter 2 American Labor Market Policy, Strategy, and Political Institutions Chapter 3 Labor and Regulation, 1865-1900 Chapter 4 The AFL Confronts Employers Chapter 5 Employer's Counterattack Chapter 6 The AFL's Strategic Retreat and Its Consequences Chapter 7 Limitations of Labor Market Regulation Chapter 8 Confining Trade Union Powers Chapter 9 Marginalizing Labor Market Management Chapt…
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877–1900
In the late nineteenth century, the United States underwent an extremely rapid industrial expansion that moved the nation into the front ranks of the world economy. At the same time, the nation maintained democratic institutions as the primary means of allocating political offices and power. The combination of robust democratic institutions and rapid industrialization is rare and this book explains how development and democracy coexisted in the U…
Of Rules and Speakers
The study of the institutional development of the U.S. House of Representatives, long a mainstay of traditional scholarship, has recently undergone a revival with the rise of rational choice approaches of interpretation. In earlier years, most research was highly formal and descriptive; the emphasis was on legislative offices and parliamentary rules. While scholars noted changes in the formal structure of the House of Representatives, their descr…
Rejoinder to “Why No Parties
Let me begin by saying there is a great deal of merit to Professor Jenkins's idea. We have long known that many policies have been placed in constitutions because they would be relatively hard to change. In some cases, divisive policies have been placed in constitutions because framers wished to enact a durable compromise that they hoped would discourage future contention.The archetypal example would be the “great compromise” over the apportionme…
The Confederate Republic
Although much has been written about the ways in which Confederate politics affected the course of the Civil War, George Rable is the first historian to investigate Confederate political culture in its own right. Focusing on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology, Rable reveals how southerners attempted to purify the political process and avoid what they saw as the evils of parties and pa…
The United States as a Developing Country
War and the Health of the State
Yankee Leviathan
Yankee Leviathan
This book describes the impact of the American Civil War on the development of central state authority in the late nineteenth century. The author contends that intense competition for control of the national political economy between the free North and slave South produced secession, which in turn spawned the formation of two new states, a market-oriented northern Union and a southern Confederacy in which government controls on the economy were m…
Southern Leviathan
War has probably been the single most important influence on the development of central state authority in the United States. Although the state-centered mobilization of economic resources and manpower that accompanies military conflict is commonly conceded to have had this effect throughout American history, the centralizing influence of the Civil War on the southern Confederate government has not been accorded the precedent-setting importance i…
Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980
Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980
Geography as Destiny
Sectionalism and American political development, 1880-1980
The effect of electoral rules on voting behavior
Creating the Statutory State
The rise of the modern state has been accompanied by a decline in the importance of statutory law to the operation of Western democratic governments. Two of the strongest critiques of the modern state and of this decline in statutory law have come from Friedrich Hayek and Theodore Lowi. Each has argued that only the restoration of a rule of law can ensure the continued survival of democratic societies. Their indictments of the modern state sugges…
The American Ballot Box
Between 1850 and 1868, the United States struggled through a long and bloody Civil War, attempted to reconfigure southern class and economic relations, settled much of the western prairie, and began the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society. During these two decades, Americans went to the polls, whether located in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, rural churches set in the midst of the southern cotton belt, wooden cabins so iso…
Lost in Translation
The NOMINATE algorithm has become the most important analytical tool used in the study of the United States Congress. As such, congressional scholars have developed a great many social conventions, practices, and assumptions that enable interpretation of the statistical artifacts the algorithm produces. However, as many of these scholars recognize, serious problems emerge whenever we try to translate these statistical artifacts into language and …
Southern Leviathan
War has probably been the single most important influence on the development of central state authority in the United States. Although the state-centered mobilization of economic resources and manpower that accompanies military conflict is commonly conceded to have had this effect throughout American history, the centralizing influence of the Civil War on the southern Confederate government has not been accorded the precedent-setting importance i…
Valor and Valkyries
The Tension between American Political Development as a Research Community and as a Disciplinary Subfield
John Gerring's methodological critique of American political development can be viewed from at least three perspectives. First and most generally, Gerring proposes procedural and analytical standards that should apply to all the social and natural sciences. As a methodological virtue, for instance, conceptual clarity strengthens the underpinnings of knowledge, regardless of the substantive focus. Rigorous specification of causal relations is equa…
The effect of electoral rules on voting behavior
Creating the Statutory State
The rise of the modern state has been accompanied by a decline in the importance of statutory law to the operation of Western democratic governments. Two of the strongest critiques of the modern state and of this decline in statutory law have come from Friedrich Hayek and Theodore Lowi. Each has argued that only the restoration of a rule of law can ensure the continued survival of democratic societies. Their indictments of the modern state sugges…
Sectional Stress & Ideology in the United States House of Representatives
Sectionalism and American political development, 1880-1980
Geography as Destiny
Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980
Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980
Sectionalism and American Political Development, 1880-1980
Southern Leviathan
War has probably been the single most important influence on the development of central state authority in the United States. Although the state-centered mobilization of economic resources and manpower that accompanies military conflict is commonly conceded to have had this effect throughout American history, the centralizing influence of the Civil War on the southern Confederate government has not been accorded the precedent-setting importance i…
Yankee Leviathan
This book describes the impact of the American Civil War on the development of central state authority in the late nineteenth century. The author contends that intense competition for control of the national political economy between the free North and slave South produced secession, which in turn spawned the formation of two new states, a market-oriented northern Union and a southern Confederacy in which government controls on the economy were m…
War and the Health of the State
Yankee Leviathan
The United States as a Developing Country
The Confederate Republic
Although much has been written about the ways in which Confederate politics affected the course of the Civil War, George Rable is the first historian to investigate Confederate political culture in its own right. Focusing on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology, Rable reveals how southerners attempted to purify the political process and avoid what they saw as the evils of parties and pa…
Rejoinder to “Why No Parties
Let me begin by saying there is a great deal of merit to Professor Jenkins's idea. We have long known that many policies have been placed in constitutions because they would be relatively hard to change. In some cases, divisive policies have been placed in constitutions because framers wished to enact a durable compromise that they hoped would discourage future contention.The archetypal example would be the “great compromise” over the apportionme…
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877–1900
In the late nineteenth century, the United States underwent an extremely rapid industrial expansion that moved the nation into the front ranks of the world economy. At the same time, the nation maintained democratic institutions as the primary means of allocating political offices and power. The combination of robust democratic institutions and rapid industrialization is rare and this book explains how development and democracy coexisted in the U…
Of Rules and Speakers
The study of the institutional development of the U.S. House of Representatives, long a mainstay of traditional scholarship, has recently undergone a revival with the rise of rational choice approaches of interpretation. In earlier years, most research was highly formal and descriptive; the emphasis was on legislative offices and parliamentary rules. While scholars noted changes in the formal structure of the House of Representatives, their descr…
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
In the last twenty-five years, historians have been losing interest in economic history, a subject now taught mainly by economists, and in political history, a subject now taught by almost no one outside political science departments unless the period in question happens to be the postwar moment of Cold War and civil rights. The political scientists who have meanwhile been rethinking and rewriting the history of American politics in the absence o…
Capital, Labor, and State
Chapter 1 The Battle Between Capital and Labor in America Chapter 2 American Labor Market Policy, Strategy, and Political Institutions Chapter 3 Labor and Regulation, 1865-1900 Chapter 4 The AFL Confronts Employers Chapter 5 Employer's Counterattack Chapter 6 The AFL's Strategic Retreat and Its Consequences Chapter 7 Limitations of Labor Market Regulation Chapter 8 Confining Trade Union Powers Chapter 9 Marginalizing Labor Market Management Chapt…
The Tension between American Political Development as a Research Community and as a Disciplinary Subfield
John Gerring's methodological critique of American political development can be viewed from at least three perspectives. First and most generally, Gerring proposes procedural and analytical standards that should apply to all the social and natural sciences. As a methodological virtue, for instance, conceptual clarity strengthens the underpinnings of knowledge, regardless of the substantive focus. Rigorous specification of causal relations is equa…
The American Ballot Box
Between 1850 and 1868, the United States struggled through a long and bloody Civil War, attempted to reconfigure southern class and economic relations, settled much of the western prairie, and began the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society. During these two decades, Americans went to the polls, whether located in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, rural churches set in the midst of the southern cotton belt, wooden cabins so iso…
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
During the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, or in wooden cabins so isolated that even neighbors had difficulty finding them. Their votes have come down to us as election returns reporting tens of millions of officially sanctioned democratic acts. Neatly arrayed in columns by office, candidate, and party, these returns are routinely …
Politics in Time
Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis. By Paul Pierson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 108p. $49.50 cloth, $19.95 paper.Paul Pierson opens his book with a fictional metaphor in which he imagines “the trendiest new restaurant in town, charmingly named ‘The Modern Social Scientist.’” He invites you to tour the restaurant as “the chef explains that the kitchen is divided into two parts.” On one side, the chef pro…
Valor and Valkyries
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