1st Edition

Politics by Any Other Name Bureaucratic Struggle, Lawfare and Violence in American Politics

By Benjamin Ginsberg Copyright 2026
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

This book critiques a modern U.S. political system characterized by the partisan weaponization of bureaucratic systems and institutions. Competition for political power in the United States today is not just about winning elections. Competing political forces attempt to win at the polls, but they do not bet all their chips on electoral outcomes. Each party has built an institutional bastion... Read more

1. A Combined Arms Strategy

2. Bureaucratic Struggle

3. Lawfare

4. Violence by Proxy

5. How the FBI and Other Security Agencies Interfere in American Politics

Epilogue: The Future of American Politics

Biography

Benjamin Ginsberg is David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, at Johns Hopkins University, with a PhD from the University of Chicago, 1973. Benjamin is an expert in political science and has written numerous books on the subject, including The Imperial Presidency and American Politics: Governance by Edicts and Coups and What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions About the American People (co-authored with Jennifer Bachner).