New College of Florida

Retired since 2007, Professor Lewis is an American political scientist and one of the leading academic authorities on the concept of political entrepreneurship.

Eugene Lewis

Professor of Policial Science
Ph.D., Syracuse University
B.A., Temple University; M.A., Indiana University

Eugene Lewis is an American political scientist and one of the leading academic authorities on the concept of political entrepreneurship. His research focuses on the role of science and technology in politics and law. He has also published influential works on 'political entrepreneurs' such as Admiral Hyman Rickover. Professor Lewis taught courses in American Constitutional Thought, public policy, political theory and public administration. He also served as the College's Provost. Additionally, Lewis is an internationally recognized and critically acclaimed sculptor whose work is on display on the New College campus.

Selected Publications

Public Entrepreneurship: Toward a Theory of Bureaucratic Political Power: the organizational lives of Hyman Rickover, J. Edgar Hoover, and Robert Moses. Indiana University Press (1980)

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