Prof. Maurice M. Eisenstein, Ph. D.

University professor of political science with an intellectual focus on Indiana politics, religion and politics, the Presidency and political/social ideas that define the new millenium.

Associate Professor of Political Science, Purdue University Calumet.

Member of the International Board of Governors of the University Center of Ariel, Ariel, Israel.

Past editor of the American Political Science Association’s Religion and Politics Section Newsletter.

2005-06 President of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences;

Past President of the Indiana Political Science Association;

Published articles on political theory and thought, public policy and economic development in Indiana; on management of public organizations, e.g. local government.

One of the central concentrations of my teaching is economic development policy, technology, and society.

Born in Israel with the beginning of the legal recognition of the State that is the fulfillment of the return of the Jews to their Biblical Homeland. I completed middle and high school in Logan, Utah (one of the most beautiful valley, Cache Valley, on this earth).

Selected Publications:

Articles:

Maurice M. Eisenstein, "Change and the Public Organization: Is TQM Scientific Management, Organizational Humanism, or Postmodern Management?" The Journal of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2006, Volume 10, Number 1.

Maurice M. Eisenstein, "Time and the Life-Cycle of Presidential Approval," The Social Science Journal, Volume 37 No. 3, January 2000.

Maurice M. Eisenstein, “The Indiana Surplus: Fiscal Responsibility or Fiscal Indifference?” Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Summer 1999.

Books:

Maurice M. Eisenstein, ed., Indiana Politics and Public Policy, 2005, 2nd edition (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster Publishing Company).

Maurice M. Eisenstein, Phenomenology of Civilization: Reason as a Regulatory Principle in Collingwood and Husserl, 1999, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America).

Maurice M. Eisenstein, ed., Indiana Politics and Public Policy, 1999 (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster Publishing Company).

Citations:

James Connelly, Metaphysics, Method and Politics: The Political Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood, 2003, (Exter, UK: Imprint Academic Press). "For an interesting comparison of Collingwood's and Husserl's understanding of civilization, its underpinnings, and threats to it, see, M. Eisenstein, Phenomenology of Civilization: Reason as a regulative Principle in Collingwood and Husserl" p. 285.

Educational Background:

Ph.D. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

M.A Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

B.Sc. Economics and Management, Krannert School of Management, Purdue Univestiy, West Lafayette, Indiana.