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.