Marver Hillel Bernstein

Background

Bernstein, Marver Hillel was born on February 7, 1919 in Mankato, Minnesota, United States. Son of Meyer M. and Esther (Alpert) Bernstein.

Education

Bachelor, Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1940. Doctor of Philosophy in Politics, Princeton University, 1948. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1975.

Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Northeastern University, 1978. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Duquesne University, 1978. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Brandeis University, 1983.

Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Baltimore Hebrew College, Hebrew Union College, 1984.

Career

Bernstein served as a budget examiner for the federal government at the US Bureau of the Budget from 1942 until 1946. Bernstein was a professor at Princeton University for 26 years and was the first dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 1964 to 1969.

As a young professor at Princeton in the immediate post-war era, Bernstein served as one of the informal faculty advisors to Princeton's Liberal Union, an unaffiliated student group that sought to end racial and religious discrimination at Princeton, particularly in admissions.

Bernstein’s 1955 influential book, Regulating Business By Independent Commission was the first in a series of publications by scholars of regulation who posited what became known as the "captive agency theory." More broadly, the concept is referred to as regulatory capture.

Achievements

• In 1972 Bernstein became Brandeis' fourth president where he served in that position for eleven years. After leaving Brandeis, he became a professor of politics and philosophy at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service where he taught until just before his death. Bernstein was very active in Jewish organizations and served on the boards of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation,[5] the National Federation for Jewish Culture, American Professors for Peace in the Middle East, and numerous civic groups.
  
  Bernstein was sought as an advisor to local, state, and federal agencies and in 1967 brokered a deadlock over the reapportionment of New Jersey's legislative districts.[10] Bernstein's negotiations represented an important chapter in the history of efforts to achieve bipartisan state redistricting.

Works

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  • The Scope of Public Administration - Marver H. Bernstein, 1952

    (Bernstein, M. H. (1 March 1952). "The Scope of Public Adm...)

    1952

• book

  • Regulating Business by Independent Commission

    (The author and the publisher agree that this study is an ...)

  • The Job of the Federal Executive: by Marver H. Bernstein (1986-11-06)
  • { THE JOB OF THE FEDERAL EXECUTIVE } by Bernstein, Marver H (AUTHOR) Nov-06-1986 Hardcover

• Other Work

  • Political Ideas of Selected American Business Journals on JSTOR

    (Recognition of the group basis of politics has led politi...)

Politics

Bernstein was sought as an advisor to local, state, and federal agencies and in 1967 brokered a deadlock over the reapportionment of New Jersey's legislative districts.[10] Bernstein's negotiations represented an important chapter in the history of efforts to achieve bipartisan state redistricting.

Membership

From 1969 to 1975, Bernstein was chairman of the national commission of B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations, the policy body for the Hillel centers on 284 college campuses. He was a former president of the National Federation for Jewish Culture, at the time, the leading advocate for Jewish cultural life and creativity in the United States, and the American Professors for Peace in the Middle East (APPME).[9] He belonged to many civic groups, including the Massachusetts Ethics Commission and the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and was an honorary trustee of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Foundation for Jewish Studies. He earned many honorary degrees.

Connections

Bernstein was married in 1944 to the former Sheva Rosenthal, a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduate of the University of Minnesota. Ms. Rosenthal was an economist who was active in Hadassah, the League of Women Voters and other social services organizations.

Father:

Meyer M. Bernstein

Mother:

Esther (Alpert) Bernstein

Spouse:

Sheva Rosenthal

References

• Wikipedia
• Marver Hillel Bernstein | Past Presidents | Office of the President | Brandeis University