DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Interests

Research Interest(s): American political development, workers’ rights, labor politics, U.S. presidency, political parties, multi-method research

Program Area(s): American Politics

Regional Specialization(s): United States

Subfield Specialties: American Political Development; Comparative Historical Analysis; Political Parties

Joint Appointment

Institute for Policy Research 

Biography

Daniel Galvin's research focuses on the development of political institutions, political organizations, and public policy in the United States. He is the author of Presidential Party Building: Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush (Princeton University Press, 2010), numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, and co-editor of Rethinking Political Institutions: the Art of the State (NYU Press, 2006). His current research examines the changing politics of workers’ rights.

Books

• Presidential Party Building: Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).
• Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State, co-edited with Ian Shapiro and Stephen Skowronek (New York: NYU Press, 2006).

Select Publications

• “The Political Effects of Policy Drift: Policy Stalemate and American Political Development,” with Jacob S. Hacker. Studies in American Political Development 34, 1 (2020).
• “Party Domination and Base Mobilization: Donald Trump and Republican Party Building in a Polarized Era,” The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics (Summer 2020).
• “From Labor Law to Employment Law: The Changing Politics of Workers’ Rights,” Studies in American Political Development 33, 1 (April 2019): 50-86. (Winner of the Mary Parker Follett Prize for Best Article, APSA Politics and History section.)
• “Let’s Not Conflate APD with Political History, and Other Reflections on ‘Causal Inference and American Political Development,’” Public Choice (July 2019): 1-16.
• “The Democrats’ Misplaced Faith in Policy Feedback,” with Chloe N. Thurston. The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics 15, 2 (2017): 333-344.
• “Deterring Wage Theft: Alt-Labor, State Politics, and the Policy Determinants of Minimum Wage Compliance,” Perspectives on Politics 14, 2 (2016): 324-350. (Winner of the 2017 Best Paper on Public Policy Award, APSA Public Policy section.)
• “Qualitative Methods and American Political Development,” In The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development, Richard M. Valelly, Suzanne Mettler, and Robert Lieberman, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• “Presidents as Agents of Change,” Presidential Studies Quarterly 44, 1 (2014): 95-119.
• “Presidential Partisanship Reconsidered: Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford and the Rise of Polarized Politics,” Political Research Quarterly 66, 1 (2013): 46-60.
• “The Transformation of Political Institutions: Investments in Institutional Resources and Gradual Change in the National Party Committees,” Studies in American Political Development 26, 1 (2012): 50-70.

Awards

• Russell Sage Foundation grant for "The New Politics of Workers’ Rights," 2017-2019
• Best Paper on Public Policy Award, 2016 for "Deterring Wage Theft: Alt-Labor, State Politics, and the Policy Determinants of Minimum Wage Compliance.”
• E. LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching (highest teaching award given by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences), 2015
• Emerging Scholar Award, APSA Political Organizations and Parties section, 2012 (“Awarded to a scholar who has received his or her Ph.D. within the last seven years and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.”)
• Faculty Honor Roll, Northwestern University, 2011, 2010
• R. Barry Farrell Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Political Science, 2010

Courses taught

• American Government and Politics (220)
• The American Presidency (320)
• U.S. Party Development (395)
• American Political Development (419)
• The Presidency (414)