Sidney Milkis

Sidney Milkis (born 1951) is an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on the U.S. presidency and political system and American political development.

Milkis graduated with a B.A. in political science from Muhlenberg College in 1972 and then attended graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his M.A. in 1975 and his PhD degree in 1981. His doctoral dissertation examined "The New Deal, the Decline of Parties, and the Administrative State".

Milkis taught political science at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, Franklin College, and DePauw University, before joining the faculty at Brandeis University in 1985. He was appointed professor and chair of political science at Brandeis in 1996. In 1999, Milkis moved to the University of Virginia, where he has been chair of the politics department since 2004.

Milkis's book "The American Presidency: Origins and Development" won the Benjamin Franklin Award for the best book in history, politics, or philosophy in 1991.

Milkis was president of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association for 2005-2006.

elect Publications

*"The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal". 1993. Oxford University Press.
*"The Politics of Regulatory Change: A Tale of Two Agencies, 2nd ed". 1996. Oxford University Press. (written with Richard Harris).
*"Remaking Government Institutions in the 1970s: Participatory Democracy and the Triumph of Administrative Politics." 1998. "Journal of Policy History" 10(1): 51-74.
*"Political Parties and Constitutional Government: Remaking American Democracy". 1999. Johns Hopkins University Press.
*"Progressivism and the New Democracy". 1999. University of Massachusetts Press. (edited with Jerome Mileur).
*"Presidential Greatness". 2000. University Press of Kansas. (written with Marc Landy).
*"The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism". 2002. University of Massachusetts Press. (edited with Jerome Mileur).
*"The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism". 2005. University of Massachusetts Press. (edited with Jerome Mileur).
*"The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2007, 5th ed". 2007. CQ Press. (written with Michael Nelson).
*"George W. Bush, the Party System, and American Federalism." 2007. "Publius: The Journal of Federalism" 37(3): 478-503. (written with Jesse Rhodes).
*"American Government: Balancing Rights and Democracy, 2nd ed". 2008. Cambridge University Press. (written with Marc Landy).

ources

http://www.virginia.edu/politics/staff/scholars/milkis.html