Publications

2025 Agents of Empire: English Imperial Governance and the Making of American Political Institutions. By Sean Gailmard. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 336p. Richard F. Bensel · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only — 2025 Looking Backward : Capitalism, Political Economy, and History Richard F. Bensel · Reviews in American History · Scholar only — 2022 The Founding of Modern States Richard F. Bensel · Cambridge University Press 17 2022 The Opening Dilemma: Why Democracies Cannot Found Themselves Richard F. Bensel · Studies in American Political Development 0 2020 The Legal Construction of Motherhood and Paternity: Interracial Unions and the Color Line in Antebellum Louisiana Richard F. Bensel · Stating the Family 1 2018 The Founding of Non-Democratic States Richard F. Bensel · State Formations: Global Histories and Cultures of Statehood 0 2017 The Ku Klux Klan and the Failure of Reconstruction in North Carolina Richard F. Bensel · Kultur und Praxis der Wahlen: Eine Geschichte der Modernen Demokratie — 2016 Autorinnen-und Autorenverzeichnis Richard F. Bensel · Kultur und Praxis der Wahlen: Eine Geschichte der modernen Demokratie · Scholar only — 2016 Der Ku Klux Klan und das Scheitern der Reconstruction in North Carolina Richard F. Bensel · Kultur und Praxis der Wahlen: Eine Geschichte der modernen Demokratie · Scholar only · needs review — 2016 Lost in Translation: An Epistemological Exploration of the Relation between Historical Analysis and the NOMINATE Algorithm Richard F. Bensel · Studies in American Political Development 13 2016 Political Economy and American Political Development Richard F. Bensel · Oxford Handbook on American Political Development 1 2015 Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government Richard F. Bensel · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only · needs review — 2011 Comment on `Populism, Paranoia, and the Politics of Free Silver' Richard F. Bensel · Studies in American Political Development 1 2011 Comments on Aziz Rana, The Two Faces of American Freedom Richard F. Bensel · Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 0 2011 Reforming Jim Crow: Southern Politics and State in the Age Before Brown by Kimberley Johnson Richard F. Bensel · Political Science Quarterly · Scholar only — 2011 WAR AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN STATE Richard F. Bensel · War, Revenue, and State Building: Financing the Development of the American · Scholar only — 2010 Sectionalism and Congressional Development Richard F. Bensel · Oxford Handbooks Online 6 2010 The Emperor Never Had Clothes: Ideology and the Poverty of Empiricism Richard F. Bensel · Political Science as Public Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Theodore J. Lowi — 2009 Comments: Forum on Should We Abolish the "Gilded Age"? Richard F. Bensel · The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 3 2009 The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War (review) Richard F. Bensel · Civil War history · Scholar only — 2009 Who Were the Gilders? And Other Seldom-Asked Questions about Business, Technology, and Political Economy in the United States, 1877-1900. Richard F. Bensel · Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era · Scholar only — 2008 Passion and Preferences: William Jennings Bryan and the 1896 Democratic National Convention Richard F. Bensel · Cambridge University Press 58 2008 Valor and Valkyries: Why the State Needs Valhalla Richard F. Bensel · Polity 2 2007 A Calculated Enchantment of Passion: Bryan and the “Cross of Gold” in the 1896 Democratic National Convention Richard F. Bensel · Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making — 2007 The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been (review) Richard F. Bensel · Civil War history · Scholar only — 2005 A Cross of Gold, a Crown of Thorns: Preferences and Decisions in the 1896 Democratic National Convention Richard F. Bensel · Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection Between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism 5 2005 Index to Volume Richard F. Bensel · Civil War History · Scholar only — 2005 Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics Richard F. Bensel · The Journal of American History · Scholar only — 2005 Politics in Time: History, Institutions, and Social Analysis Richard F. Bensel · Perspectives on Politics · Scholar only 1 2004 Industrialization Richard F. Bensel · The American Congress — 2004 The American Ballot Box in the Mid-nineteenth Century Richard F. Bensel · Cambridge University Press 352 2003 Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy. By Laura Jensen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 244. $60.00, cloth; $20.00, paper Richard F. Bensel · The Journal of Economic History · Scholar only — 2003 Politics Is Thicker than Blood: Union and Confederate Veterans in the U.S. House of Representatives in the Late Nineteenth Century Richard F. Bensel · Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation 1 2003 Representatives in the Late Nineteenth Century Richard F. Bensel · Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation · Scholar only — 2003 Sectionalism Richard F. Bensel · Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age — 2003 The American Ballot Box: Law, Identity, and the Polling Place in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Richard F. Bensel · Studies in American Political Development 32 2003 The Tension between American Political Development as a Research Comunity and as a Disciplinary Subfield Richard F. Bensel · Studies in American Political Development 15 2002 Book Review: Historical Studies: Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal Richard F. Bensel · Industrial and Labor Relations Review · Scholar only 1 2001 Consequences of the American Civil War Richard F. Bensel · Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century — 2000 Of Rules and Speakers: Towards a Theory of Institutional Change for the U.S. House of Representatives Richard F. Bensel · Social Science History 7 2000 Reconstructing America: Consolidation of State Power, 1865–1890 Richard F. Bensel · Journal of Libertarian Studies · Scholar only 2 2000 The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 Richard F. Bensel · Cambridge University Press 592 1999 Heroic Project Revisited Richard F. Bensel · Cambridge University Press. New York, USA · Scholar only — 1999 Heroic Project Revisited - Paul A. C. Koistinen, Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1606–1865. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Pp. v, 356. $45.00. Richard F. Bensel · Journal of Policy History · Scholar only — 1999 Rejoinder to: `Why No Parties?: Investigating the Disappearance of Democratic-Whig Divisions in the Confederacy' Richard F. Bensel · Studies in American Political Development 0 1997 The Making of an American Senate: Reconstitutive Change in Congress, 1787-1841 Richard F. Bensel · The American Political Science Review · Scholar only · needs review — 1996 Federalismo, Seccionalismo e Industrializacion Estadunidense Richard F. Bensel · Hacia un Nuevo Feederlismo? — 1996 The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics. Richard F. Bensel · The Journal of Southern History · Scholar only — 1995 The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States. Edited by Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner. Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 440. $49.95. Richard F. Bensel · The Journal of Economic History · Scholar only — 1994 Congress, Sectionalism, and Public Policy Formation since 1870 Richard F. Bensel · Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System —