Benjamin G. Bishin is Professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside.
His interests include questions of democracy, representation, identity and ethnicity, public opinion, legislative politics, Cuban-American and LGBT politics. He is author of Tyranny of the Minority: The Subconstituency Politics Theory of Representation and recipient of the 2001 Jewell-Loewenberg Award for the best paper on Legislative Politics and, along with his coauthors, winner of the 2011 and 2014 Bailey Awards for the best paper on gay and lesbian politics.
Professor Bishin has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals. He was also a principal investigator of the 2004 and 2008 Miami Dade County Exit Poll. He received his PhD from UCLA in 2001.