Research | Daniel J. Galvin

Books

Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers’ Rights (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2024).

Presidential Party Building: Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010) (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives).

Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State (New York: NYU Press, 2006), ed. with Ian Shapiro and Stephen Skowronek.

Articles and Chapters

2023. “Surprising Causes: Propensity-Adjusted Treatment Scores for Multimethod Case Selection.” Sociological Methods and Research 52 (4):1632–1680. With Jason N. Seawright. [ungated]

2022. “APD as a Problem-Driven Enterprise.” Studies in American Political Development 36, 2 (October): 156-158. With Chloe N. Thurston.

2022. “Minimum Wage Enforcement: The Unfinished Business of Florida’s Constitutional Amendment.” Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy 32, 3 (Summer): 463-490. With Alexis P. Tsoukalas, Jenn Round, and Janice Fine.

2021. “Alt-Labor’s Turn Toward Politics and Public Policy to Combat the Exploitation of Low-Wage Workers: Building Power and ‘Punching Above Their Weight’” Economic Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.), 1-60.

2021. “Wage Theft in a Recession: Unemployment, Labor Violations, and Enforcement Strategies for Difficult Times.” International Journal of Comparative Labour Law & Industrial Relations 37 (2): 107-132. With Janice Fine, Hana Shepherd, and Jenn Round. [ungated]

2021. “Strategic Enforcement and Co-Enforcement of U.S. Labor Standards are Needed to Protect Workers through the Coronavirus Recession.” In Boosting Wages for U.S. Workers in the New Economy. Kate Bahn and Jesse Rothstein, eds. Washington, D.C.: Washington Center for Equitable Growth. With Janice Fine, Jenn Round, and Hana Shepherd.

2021. “Labor’s Legacy: The Construction of Subnational Work Regulation.” ILR Review 74 (5), October, pp. 1103–1131.

2020. “The Political Effects of Policy Drift: Policy Stalemate and American Political Development.” Studies in American Political Development 34 (2): 216-238. With Jacob S. Hacker.

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 18, (2), July.

2020. “Let’s Not Conflate APD with Political History, and Other Reflections on ‘Causal Inference and American Political Development.’” Public Choice 185: 485-500.

2020. “Maintaining Effective U.S. Labor Standards Enforcement Through the Coronavirus Recession.” Washington Center for Equitable Growth (September). With Janice Fine, Jenn Round, and Hana Shepherd.

2020. “The Limits of Policy Feedback as a Party-Building Tool.” In American Political Development and the Trump Presidency. Philip Rocco and Zachary Callen, eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. With Chloe N. Thurston.

2019. “From Labor Law to Employment Law: The Changing Politics of Workers’ Rights.” Studies in American Political Development 33 (1): 50-86.

- Winner of the 2020 Mary Parker Follett Prize for Best Article, APSA Politics and History section.

2018. “Presidential Constraints: How the President is Limited by Structural and Institutional Realities.” In Crucible: The President’s First Year, Michael Nelson et. al, eds. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.

2017. “The Democrats’ Misplaced Faith in Policy Feedback.” The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics 15 (2): 333-344. With Chloe N. Thurston.

2017. “The ‘Changing of the Guard’ from Labor Law to Employment Law.” Labor Studies Journal 42 (3): 255–260.

2016. “Deterring Wage Theft: Alt-Labor, State Politics, and the Policy Determinants of Minimum Wage Compliance.” Perspectives on Politics 14 (2): 324-350.

- Winner of the 2017 Best Paper on Public Policy Award, APSA Public Policy section.

2016. “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.

- Subject of “Responses to Daniel J. Galvin’s “Qualitative Methods and American Political Development” in Clio Newsletter of Politics & History 24, 2 (Summer 2015), with essays by Abhishek Chatterjee, Allan Colbern, and Graham G. Dodds.
- Subject of roundtable panel at MPSA 2016.

2016. “Political Parties in American Politics.” In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism, Orfeo Fioretos, Tulia Falleti, and Adam Sheingate, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2015. “Taking the Long View: Presidents in a System Stacked Against Them.” In Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency, Brian Balogh and Bruce J. Schulman, eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

2014. “Presidents as Agents of Change.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 44 (1): 95-119.

2014. “The Transformation of the National Party Committees.” In CQ Guide to U.S. Political Parties. Barry Burden, Marjorie Hershey, and Christina Wolbrecht, eds. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.

2013. “Presidential Partisanship Reconsidered: Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford and the Rise of Polarized Politics.” Political Research Quarterly 66 (1): 46-60.

2012. “The Transformation of Political Institutions: Investments in Institutional Resources and Gradual Change in the National Party Committees.” Studies in American Political Development 26 (1): 50-70.

2011. “The Dynamics of Presidential Policy Choice and Promotion.” In Building Coalitions, Making Policy: the Politics of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies. Martin A. Levin, Daniel DiSalvo, and Martin M. Shapiro, eds. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

2009. “Presidential Practices After 9/11: Changes and Continuities.” In China Views 9/11: Essays in Transnational American Studies. Priscilla Roberts, Mei Renyi, and Yan Xunhua, Eds. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2008. “Changing Course: Reversing the Organizational Trajectory of the Democratic Party from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama.” The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics 6 (2): 1-21.

2006. “Introduction.” In Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State. Daniel J. Galvin, Ian Shapiro, and Stephen Skowronek, eds. New York: NYU Press. With Ian Shapiro and Stephen Skowronek.

2004. “Presidential Politicization and Centralization Across the Modern-Traditional Divide.” Polity 36 (3): 477-504. With Colleen Shogan.

2004. “Thomas Jefferson and Presidential Party Building.” Journal of Contemporary Thought 19: 177-203.

Other publications

2021. “Democratic presidents have traditionally hurt their parties. Joe Biden may be different.” The Washington Post – Monkey Cage. January 21. With Josh Vincent.

2021. “Labor’s Legacy.” Work in Progress: Sociology on the economy, work and inequality. January 14.

2020. “What Happened to that ‘Blue Wave’?” The Washington Post – Monkey Cage. November 10. With Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld.

2017. “Barack Obama’s Legacy on Party Building.” The PEP Report: Newsletter of the Presidents & Executive Politics Section of APSA (Spring).

2017. “Wage theft is widespread, but politics and policies can play a powerful role in reducing it.” London School of Economics US Centre’s blog on American Politics and Policy, March 13.

2017. “Presidential Constraints.” Miller Center Issues & Policy / Governance, January 19.

2016. “Combating Wage Theft under Donald Trump.” The American Prospect, December 22.

2016. “The 2016 Elections and new ‘Minority’ Democratic Party.” Politics of Color, official blog of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. November 19.

2016. “Obama built a policy legacy. But he didn’t do enough to build the Democratic Party.” The Washington Post – Monkey Cage. November 16.

2015. “How to Get Paid What You’re Owed.” The Washington Post – Monkey Cage. September 6.

2014. “Qualitative Methods and American Political Development.” Clio Newsletter of Politics & History (APSA), 24, 1 (Winter).

2012. “U.S. Presidents and the Challenge of Party-Building.” SSN Key Findings (April).

2010. “Barack Obama’s ‘Organizing for America’ and the Dynamics of Presidential Party Building.” In Vox Pop, Political Organizations and Parties, 28(3).

2008. “Will Obama Continue to Build the Democratic Party Organization?” The Washington Post – Monkey Cage. December 3.

2007. Review of ‘Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority’ by Robert Mason. Rhetoric & Public Affairs.

2007. Review of ‘Saving Democracy’ by Kevin O’Leary. Perspectives on Political Science.

2006. “How to Grow a Democratic Majority.” The New York Times Op-Ed, June 3.

HBS Case Studies

2002. Garanti Bank: Transformation in Turkey (Abridged). HBS Case Study. 302117. With Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Maximilian Martin.

2002. IBM’s Reinventing Education (B): West Virginia. HBS Case Study. 302076. With Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

2001. First Community Bank (B): Community Banking Group. HBS Case Study. 301086. With Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

2000. Reuters Greenhouse Fund. HBS Case Study. 301012. With Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

2000. E-Business at Honeywell International (B): E-Hubs. HBS Case Study. 300125. With Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

2000. E-Commerce at Williams-Sonoma. HBS Case Study. 300086. With Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

1999. WingspanBank.com (A). HBS Case Study. 600035. With Sandra J. Sucher.