Richard Wallace Mansbach (born 1943) is an American

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

. Mansbach studied political science, history, and Spanish at

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and graduated in 1964.Alternative link
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as a

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. After completing his dissertation, Mansbach joined the Swarthmore College faculty, in 1967. He became an assistant professor in 1968. Mansbach remained at Swarthmore for two years. While teaching at

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

, Mansbach was named a fellow of the

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in 1981, and worked for the

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. He later moved to

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricult ...

. From 1999 to 2004, Mansbach was a co-editor of ''

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'', an official journal of the

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. The ISA's Midwest Region had previously awarded Mansbach and Yale H. Ferguson the Lynne Rienner/Quincy Wright Award for their coauthored 1996 book, ''Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change''. In 2014, Mansbach received the ISA's James N. Rosenau Award. In 2017, the ISA convened a Distinguished Scholar Panel to honor Mansbach and Ferguson. ISA–Midwest honored Mansbach again in 2021, with the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award.

Selected books

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References

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