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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 books are The End of Liberalism and The Pursuit of Justice, on which he collaborated with Robert F. Kennedy. Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author or coauthor of 20 books including "Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced"; "Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public"; "Politics by Other Means; The Consequences of Consent"; and "The Captive Public". Ginsberg received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1973. Before joining the Hopkins faculty in 1992, Ginsberg was Professor of Government at Cornell. His most recent book is "The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters".