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Desmond King, FBA
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government

Field: Comparative Government and American Politics. Main interests in comparative public policy including welfare states and labour market policy; race and politics especially in American political development; democratization; immigration; and the politics of social research.

Current research topics: Democratization and the US Polity; A comparative-historical study of eugenics and public policy; The politics of race, ethnicity and immigration in advanced democracies; Public funding of social research regimes; Filmic presentations of historical knowledge.

Recent Work:

Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the US Federal Government,
New edition with a Postscript (OUP 2007).

The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation (OUP 2005).
Co-edited (with George C Edwards III) The Polarized Presidency of George W, Bush (OUP 2007)

“De-Centering the South: America’s Nationwide White Supremacist Order after Reconstruction,” (with Stephen Tuck)
Past and Present No. 194 (February) 2007) 219-257.

“The American State and Social Engineering: Policy Instruments in Affirmative Action,”
Governance 20 (2007): 109-126.

“When an Empire is not an Empire: The US case,”
Government and Opposition, 41 (2006) 163-196.

“The Politics of Path Dependency: Political Conflict in Historical Institutionalism”
(with B G Peters & J Pierre),
Journal of Politics 67 (2005), 1275-1300.
* Reprinted in Institutionalism: 4 Volumes
(Berkeley and London: Sage Publications, 2007).

“Racial Orders in American Political Development” (with Rogers M. Smith)
American Political Science Review 99 (2005): 75-92.
*Reprinted in Race and American Political Development eds Joe Lowndes,
Julie Novkov & Dorian Warren (New York: Routledge, 2008).

E-mail address:

desmond.king@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Secretary: Sarah McGuigan
Tel: (44) +1865.278612

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Field:	Comparative Government and American Politics. Main interests in comparative public policy including welfare states and labour market policy; race and politics especially in American political development; democratization; immigration; and the politics of social research.

Current research topics:	Democratization and the US Polity; A comparative-historical study of eugenics and public policy; The politics of race, ethnicity and immigration in advanced democracies; Public funding of social research regimes; Filmic presentations of historical knowledge.

Recent Work:	Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the US Federal Government, New edition with a Postscript (OUP 2007). The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation (OUP 2005). Co-edited (with George C Edwards III) The Polarized Presidency of George W, Bush (OUP 2007) “De-Centering the South: America’s Nationwide White Supremacist Order after Reconstruction,” (with Stephen Tuck) Past and Present No. 194 (February) 2007) 219-257. “The American State and Social Engineering: Policy Instruments in Affirmative Action,” Governance 20 (2007): 109-126. “When an Empire is not an Empire: The US case,” Government and Opposition, 41 (2006) 163-196. “The Politics of Path Dependency: Political Conflict in Historical Institutionalism” (with B G Peters & J Pierre), Journal of Politics 67 (2005), 1275-1300. * Reprinted in Institutionalism: 4 Volumes (Berkeley and London: Sage Publications, 2007). “Racial Orders in American Political Development” (with Rogers M. Smith) American Political Science Review 99 (2005): 75-92. *Reprinted in Race and American Political Development eds Joe Lowndes, Julie Novkov & Dorian Warren (New York: Routledge, 2008).

E-mail address:	desmond.king@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Secretary:	Sarah McGuigan Tel: (44) +1865.278612