Desmond King specializes in the study of the American state in US executive politics, race and politics in American political development, and the financial bases of US politics. “’Without Regard to Race’: Critical Ideational Development in Modern American Racial Politics.” Desmond King and Rogers M Smith. First Class Honours (1979). B.A. Desmond King M.A., (B.A., Dublin, M.A., PhD Northwestern), DLitt Ox F.B.A., FRHistS, MRIA, formerly Fellow and Tutor in Politics, is now Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government. Narrating Peoplehood Amidst Diversity: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives Aarhus: University of Aarhus Press, 2011: 145-182. In Joel Isaac and Gary Gerstle eds. (Doctor of Letters) (2015), University of Oxford.PhD.
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. Desmond King specializes in the study of the American state in US executive politics, race and politics in American political development, and the financial bases of US politics. Research Interests: Comparative government, public policy, racial inequality in the US, American political development and state building, liberalism and migration, comparative welfare policy.“’The Latter Day General Grant’: Forceful Federal Power and Civil Rights.” With Robert C Lieberman. Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999) 371-397.“Cheap Labor: The New Politics of ‘Bread and Roses’ in Industrial Democracies,” (with David Rueda) Perspectives on Politics, 6 (2008): 279-297.In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the USA and BritainActively Seeking Work?
“Spaces of Exception.” Gary Gerstle and Desmond King. Fed Power: How Finance Wins (with Lawrence Jacobs), forthcoming.Obama at the Crossroads: Politics, Markets and the Battle for America’s Future. “’Race was a motivating factor’: Republicans and the Rise of Re-segregated Schools in the American states.” Richard Johnson and Desmond King. Still a House Divided. In Kimberly Morgan & Ann Orloff eds. (1985) and M.A. “The Fed’s Political Economy.” Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King.
(1981) in Political Science, Northwestern University. “Toward Transitional Justice: Black reparations and the end of Mass Incarceration,” Desmond King and Jennifer Page.
Desmond King: Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government, Professorial Fellow Nuffield College, Director of Graduate Studies (Politics), Emeritus Fellow St John’s College Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government, Professorial Fellow Nuffield College, Director of Graduate Studies (Politics), Emeritus Fellow St John’s College
“White Protectionism in America.” Rogers M Smith and Desmond King. Moderatorship (Honours) in Political and Social Science (1979), Trinity College Dublin. NY: OUP, 2012.“The Political Economy of Neoliberalism: Britain and the United States in the 1980s.” With Stewart Wood.
Coedited with Lawrence R Jacobs. “The three constituencies of the state: Why the state lost unifying energy.” Desmond King and Patrick Le Gales. Formerly Fellow and Tutor in Politics St John's College, Oxford; Discover; People; Desmond King; Share. Coedited with Lawrence R Jacobs. Desmond King specializes in the study of the American state in US executive politics, race and politics in American political development, and the financial bases of US politics. Race and Politics in Obama’s America“Racial Orders in American Political Development.” (with Rogers M Smith) American Political Science Review 99 (2005): 75-92.“Barack Obama and the Future of American Racial Politics,” (with Rogers M Smith) Du Bois Review, 6 (2009): 25-35.Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the US Federal GovernmentMaking Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy“De-Centering the South: America’s Nationwide White Supremacist Order after Reconstruction,” (with Stephen Tuck) “The Racial Bureaucracy: African Americans and the Federal Government In the Era of Segregated Race Relations.”“Ironies of the American State” (with Robert C Lieberman) World Politics 61 (July 2009) 547-588.Democratization in America. Desmond King FBA, FRHistS, MRIA. In H Kitschelt, P Lange, G Marks & J Stephens eds. “Eugenic Ideas, Political Interests and Policy Variance: Immigration and Sterilization Policy in Britain and the US,” (with Randall Hansen).“Making People Work: Democratic Consequences of Workfare,” in Lawrence M Mead ed Welfare Reform and Political Theory,(New York: Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in Twentieth Century North AmericaDLitt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.“The State and Democratization: The United States in Comparative Perspective” (with Francisco E Gonzalez)British Journal of Political Science 34 (2004), 193-210.“From Workers to Enemies: National Security, State Building and America’s War on Illegal Immigrants” (with Ines Valdez) in Michael Bassed.