DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Interests

Research Interest(s): American presidency; political parties; labor politics; American political development

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 coeditor 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

• Daniel J. Galvin. 2019. “From Labor Law to Employment Law: The Changing Politics of Workers’ Rights,” Studies in American Political Development, 33 (1).
• "Deterring Wage Theft: Alt-Labor, State Politics, and the Policy Determinants of Minimum Wage Compliance." Perspectives on Politics, 14, no. 2 (June 2016), pp. 324-350. (Published by Cambridge University Press.)
• Winner of the Best Paper on Public Policy Award, APSA section on Public Policy

• "Qualitative Methods and American Political Development." In The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development, Richard Valelly, Suzanne Mettler, and Robert Lieberman, eds. (2015)
• "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.
• "Changing Course: Reversing the Organizational Trajectory of the Democratic Party from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama." The Forum 6, 2 (2008).
• "Presidential Politicization and Centralization across the Modern-Traditional Divide." Polity 36 (2004):477–504. With Collen Shogan.

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)