American Government: A Brief Introduction (15th Edition) – PDF

About The Author

Benjamin Ginsberg

Dr. Benjamin Ginsberg is the Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies and David Bernstein Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the coauthor or author of more than 25 ebooks, including Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public; The Consequences of Consent; Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced; The Worth of War; Politics by Other Means; and The Captive Public. Ginsberg received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1973. Before joining the Hopkins faculty in 1992, Ginsberg was Professor of Government at Cornell. His most recent ebooks are Why It Matters; What the Government Thinks of the People; and Analytics, Policy, and Governance.

Kenneth A. Shepsle

Dr. Kenneth Shepsle is an eminent American political scientist in the field of rational choice theory. He is a research associate at Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the George D. Markham professor of government.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The University of Rochester awarded him his doctorate.

Stephen AnsolaBehere

Dr. Stephen Ansolabehere is a public opinion and election expert who has written extensively on elections, the media, representation, political economics, and public opinion, particularly in relation to energy and the environment.

Cheap and Clean, The Media Game, Going Negative, American Government, and The End of Inequality are among his top five books. He was on the Board of Overseers of the Reuters Institute of Journalism at Oxford University and consults for CBS News Election Decision Desk. He founded the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project in 2000 and oversaw it until 2004. He is the head of Harvard's Center for American Political Studies and the primary investigator of the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, a joint effort of more than 60 universities and colleges across the country.

Theodore J. Lowi

Dr. Theodore J. Lowi has been John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University since 1972. He was elected President of the American Political Science Association in 1990 and was cited as the political scientist who made the most significant contribution to the field during the decade of the 1970s. Among his numerous ebooks are The Pursuit of Justice on which he collaborated with Robert F. Kennedy and The End of Liberalism.