Professional Activities
Degrees
DLitt. (Doctor of Letters) (2015), University of Oxford.
PhD. (1985) and M.A. (1981) in Political Science, Northwestern University.
Recipient of the David Minar dissertation Award.
B.A. Moderatorship (Honours) in Political and Social Science (1979), Trinity College Dublin.
First Class Honours (1979). Bastable Prize (co-recipient) for top placing in Final Honours School.
Selected fellowships and distinctions
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2017
Member, Academy of Europe/Academia Europaea (MAE), elected 2016
Fellow, Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), elected 2015.
Member (Honorary), the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), elected 2015.
Research Visitor(by invitation), Max Planck-Sciences Po Centre, Sciences Po, Paris, September 2014.
President (by election),Politics & History Section of American Political Science Association, 2012-13.
Fellow, (by invitation)Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, NYU School of Law 2013-2014.
Academician/Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), invited 2013.
Choice “Oustanding Academic Book” 2012 for Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama’s America with Rogers M Smith, Princeton UP.
Major Research Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust 2005-2008 (3 year buy-out).
Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), elected 2003.
Centre Fellowship, Centre for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences. Stanford University. Awarded February 1993 (not taken up).
Research
- Comparative Government
- Public Policy
- Racial inequality in the US
- American political development and state building
- Illiberal social policy
- Comparative welfare policy
Teaching
I am glad to discussion supervision with potential students in these areas: racial and ethnic inequality, especially in the US; American political development, especially in respect to state building, executive politics and domestic policy issues; comparative political economy, including welfare and labour market policy.
Publications
Journal Articles
2021
Boucher, A. et al. (2021) “COVID-19: A Crisis of Borders”, PS Political Science & Politics, 54(4), pp. 617–622.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049096521000603
Hooijer, G. and King, D. (2021) “The racialized pandemic: wave one Covid-19 and the reproduction of Global North inequalities perspectives on politics”, Perspectives on Politics [Preprint].
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S153759272100195X
Smith, R. and King, D. (2021) “Racial Reparations against White Protectionism: America’s New Racial Politics”, The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics, 6(1), pp. 82–96.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2020.38
2020
Kauth, J. and King, D. (2020) “Illiberalism”, European Journal of Sociology, 61(3), pp. 365–405.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003975620000181
King, D. and Lieberman, R. (2020) “‘The latter-day General Grant’: forceful federal power and civil rights”, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 6(3), pp. 529–564.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2020.19
Perera, I. and King, D. (2020) “Racial pay parity in the public sector: the overlooked role of employee mobilization”, Politics and Society, 49(2), pp. 181–202.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329220921591
Smith, R. and King, D. (2020) “White protectionism in America”, Perspectives on Politics, 19(2 ), pp. 460–478.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592720001152
2019
Hackett, U. and King, D. (2019) “The reinvention of vouchers for a color-blind era: a racial orders account
”, Studies in American Political Development, 33(2), pp. 234–257.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0898588X19000075
Jacobs, N., King, D. and Milkis, S. (2019) “Building a conservative state: partisan polarization and the redeployment of administrative power”, Perspectives on Politics, 17(2), pp. 453–469.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592718003511
2018
Gingrich, J. and King, D. (2018) “Americanising Brexit Britain’s welfare state?”, Political Quarterly, 90(1), pp. 89–98.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12616
Johnson, R. and King, D. (2018) “‘Race was a motivating factor’: re-segregated schools in the American states”, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 35(1), pp. 75–95.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2018.1526701
2017
King, D. and Le Galès, P. (2017) “The three constituencies of the state: why the state has lost unifying energy”, British Journal of Sociology, 68(S1), pp. S11 - S33.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12318
King, D. and Page, J. (2017) “Towards transitional justice? Black reparations and the end of mass incarceration”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41(4), pp. 739–758.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1381341
King, D. (2017) “Forceful Federalism against American Racial Inequality”, Government and Opposition: an international journal of comparative politics [Preprint].
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2016.52
2016
King, D. and Smith, R. (2016) “THE LAST STAND?”, Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race, 13(1), pp. 25–44.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x1500017x
2014
King, D. and Smith, R. (2014) “‘Without regard to race’: Critical ideational development in modern American politics”, Journal of Politics, 76(4), pp. 958–971.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381614000541
King, D. and Smith, R. (2014) “‘Without regard to race’: Critical ideational development in modern American politics”, Journal of Politics, 76(4), pp. 958–971.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381614000541
2011
King, D. and Stears, M. (2011) “How the U.S. State Works: A Theory of Standardization”, Perspectives on Politics, 9(3), pp. 505–518.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592711002726
Musselin, C. et al. (2011) “Symposium sur Inventing Equal Opportunity de Frank Dobbin”, Sociologie du Travail, 53(2), pp. 194–215.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soctra.2011.03.003
Musselin, C. et al. (2011) “Symposium sur Inventing Equal Opportunity de Frank Dobbin”, Sociologie du Travail, 53(2), pp. 194–215.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soctra.2011.03.003
Smith, R., King, D. and Klinkner, P. (2011) “Challenging History: Barack Obama & American Racial Politics”, Daedalus, 140(2), pp. 121–135.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00082
2010
Jacobs, L. and King, D. (2010) “Varieties of Obamaism: Structure, Agency, and the Obama Presidency”, Perspectives on Politics, 8(3), pp. 793–802.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592710002033
2009
Smith, R. and King, D. (2009) “BARACK OBAMA AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN RACIAL POLITICS”, Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race, 6(1), pp. 25–35.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x09090158
2008
King, D. and Smith, R. (2008) “Strange Bedfellows? Polarized Politics? The Quest for Racial Equity in Contemporary America”, Political Research Quarterly, 61(4), pp. 686–703.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912908322410
2007
Bowles, N., King, D. and Ross, F. (2007) “Political Centralization and Policy Constraint in British Executive Leadership: Lessons from American Presidential Studies in the Era of Sofa Politics”, British Politics, 2(3), pp. 372–394.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.bp.4200073
King, D. and Tuck, S. (2007) “De-Centring the South: America’s Nationwide White Supremacist Order after Reconstruction*”, Past & Present, 194(1), pp. 213–253.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtl023
2005
Peters, B., Pierre, J. and King, D. (2005) “The Politics of Path Dependency: Political Conflict in Historical Institutionalism”, The Journal of Politics, 67(4), pp. 1275–1300.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2005.00360.x
KING, D. and SMITH, R. (2005) “Racial Orders in American Political Development”, American Political Science Review, 99(1), pp. 75–92.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055405051506
1999
Dowding, K. et al. (1999) “Regime Politics in London Local Government”, Urban Affairs Review, 34(4), pp. 515–545.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/10780879922184068
1995
Dowding, K. et al. (1995) “Rational Choice and Community Power Structures1”, Political Studies, 43(2), pp. 265–277.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1995.tb01711.x
King, D. and Smith, R. (no date) “The Last Stand: Shelby County v. Holder and White Political Power in Modern America”, Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race [Preprint].
Books
2021
Skowronek, S., Dearborn, J. and King, D. (2021) Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic The Deep State and the Unitary Executive.
2017
King, D. (2017) Reconfiguring European States in Crisis. Oxford University Press.
2016
Jacobs, L. and King, D. (2016) Fed Power How Finance Wins. Oxford University Press.
Chapters
2022
KING, D. and Hooijer, G. (2022) “The Critics of Welfare”, in The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press, pp. 53–72.
KING, D. and Milkis, S. (2022) “Polarization, the Administrative State and Executive-Centered Partisanship”, in R. Lieberman, S. mettler, and K. Roberts (eds.) Democratic Resilience. Can the united States Withstand Rising Polarization?. Cambridge University Press, pp. 265–340.
Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108999601
2021
KING, D. and Gerstle, G. (2021) “Spaces of Exception”, in J. Isaac and G. Gerstle (eds.) States of Exception in American History. University Of Chicago Press.
KING, D. (no date) “Why are you interested in that?’ Archiving and Interviewing about racial inequality in the USA”, in P. Krause and O. Szekely (eds.) Stories from the Field: A guide to navigating fieldwork in political science.
KING, D. and Hooijer, G. (no date) “The Critics of Welfare”, in The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State.
