David C. King
Research Focus and Activities
Legislatures
and representation
Elections
and election administration
The
mobilization and political attitudes of young people
Lecturer in Public Policy, since July 2004
Associate Professor of Public Policy, July 1996
- July 2004
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, July
1992 - July 1996
The
Faculty Chair: Newly Elected Members of the
Research Director, 2002-
2007
Interim Associate Director, 2003 – 2006
Government Department
Lecturer on
Government, since 2006
Executive Committee: Center for American Political
Studies, since 2005
Ph.D.
1992, A.M. 1990, (Political Science), The University of Michigan.
A.B.
1985, (Government), Lawrence University.
Books
David C. King & Zachary Karabell. The
Generation of Trust: How the U.S. Military has Regained the Public's Confidence
since Vietnam. (The American Enterprise Institute, 2003) (Click
here for a review in Foreign Affairs)
David C. King. Turf Wars:
How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction. (University of
Chicago Press, 1997). (Click here for a
review in the American Political Science Review)
Joseph S. Nye, Philip Zelikow & David C. King
(eds.). Why People
Don't Trust Government. (Harvard University Press, 1997). Also
published in Japanese (
Articles and Book Chapters
Alexander S. Belenky & David C. King. “A
Mathematical Model for Estimating the Potential Margin of State Undecided
Voters in a
David C. King. “The 2005 Presidential
Election and Constitutional Reform in Bolivia.” Revista.
Spring/Summer 2006: 11-15.
David W. Nickerson, Ryan D. Friedrich, David C. King.
"Partisan
Mobilization Campaigns in the Field: Results from a Statewide Turnout
Experiment in Michigan." Political Research Quarterly, March
2006, 59:85-98.
David C. King & Miles Pomper. "Congress,
Constituencies, and
David C. King & Miles Pomper. "Congress and the
Contingent Influence of Diaspora Lobbies: U.S. Foreign Policy toward Armenia."
Journal of Armenian Studies, December 2004.
David C. King & David Morehouse. "Moving Voters in
the 2000 Presidential Campaign: Local Visits and Local Media." In
David Schultz, ed. Lights, Camera, Campaign.
David C. King & Richard E. Matland. "Sex and the Grand Old
Party: An Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Candidate Sex on Support
for a Republican Candidate." American Politics Research, November
2003.
David C. King & Richard L. Zeckhauser. "Congressional Vote
Options," Legislative Studies Quarterly, August 2003, 28:387-411.
Jonathan C. Borck, David C. King, Richard J.
Zeckhauser. "Contribution
Shares in Alliances." Proceedings of the IASTED International
Conference on Alliances, Mergers, and Acquisitions.
Richard E. Matland & David C. King. "Women as Candidates
in Congressional Elections." in Cindy Simon Rosenthal, ed., Women
Transforming Congress.
David C. King. "Catching Voters in the
Web," in Elaine C. Kamarck & Joseph S. Nye, Jr., eds., Governance.com:
Democracy in the Information Age.
Contributor, in chapters 5 and 7: To Assure Pride
and Confidence in the Electoral Process. The National Commission on Federal
Election Reform. July 31, 2001
Tim Groseclose & David C. King. "Committee
Theories Reconsidered," in Lawrence C. Dodd & Bruce I.
Oppenheimer (eds.), Congress Reconsidered, 7th edition.
David C. King & Richard J. Zeckhauser. "Legislators
as Negotiators," in Robert H. Mnookin & Lawrence E. Susskind (eds.), Negotiating
on Behalf of Others.
Tim Groseclose & David C. King. "The Little
Theatre: Committees in Congress," in Herbert Weisberg & Samuel
Patterson (eds.), Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990's.
David C. King. "The Polarization of Political
Parties and Mistrust of Government," in Joseph S. Nye, Philip Zelikow
& David C. King eds., Why People Don't Trust Government.
David C. King. "Reform and Deliberation in the
David C. King. "The Legislative Reorganization
Act of 1946," and "The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970,"
in Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson, and Morton Keller (eds.), The
Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, Simon & Schuster, 1995,
pgs. 1279-81
David C. King. "The Nature of Congressional
Committee Jurisdictions," The American Political Science Review,
March 1994, 88:48-62
Gregory B. Markus, Jeffrey P. Howard, & David C.
King. "Integrating
Community Service and Classroom Instruction Enhances Learning: Results from an
Experiment," Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis,
Winter 1993, 15:410-19
David C. King & Jack L. Walker. "The Provision of Benefits by
Interest Groups in the United States," The Journal of Politics,
May 1992, 54:394-426
David C. King & Jack L. Walker. "An Ecology
of Interest Groups" (Chapter 4) and "The Origins and Maintenance of
Interest Groups" (Chapter 5) in Jack L. Walker, Mobilizing Interest
Groups in America, University of Michigan Press, 1991
John E. Jackson & David C. King. "Public Goods, Private
Interests, and Representation," The American Political Science
Review, December 1989, 83:1143-64
Conference and Working Papers
Richard G. Neimi, Kent Portney, David C. King. “Sampling
Young Adults: The Effects of Survey Mode and Sampling Method on Inferences
about the Political Behavior of College Students.”
David C. King. “A Blueprint for
Transforming the Boston Election Department.” April 7, 2007.
David C. King, Richard L. Zeckhauser & Mark T.
Kim. "The
Management Performance of the U.S. States." July 8, 2004.
David C. King. "Congress,
Polarization, and Fidelity to the Median Voter." March 10, 2003.
David C. King & Richard L. Zeckhauser. "Punching and
Counter-Punching in the U.S. Congress: Why Party Leaders Tend to be Extremists." December
9, 2002.
David C. King. "Selling International
News." December 9, 2002.
David C. King. "Party
Competition and Fidelity to the Median Voter in the U.S. Congress."
February 15, 2001
David C. King & Rebecca Hardiman. "The
Constitutionality of Congressional Involvement in Federal Elections."
January 25, 2001
David C. King, Andrew Cooley, Julie Curtis. "Interesting
News: The Attributes of Popular Stories in the Times Mirror Interest Index."
January 11, 1999
David C. King. "The New Political Machine"
and "Political & Demographic Characteristics of Web Users in Late
1997", Visions of Governance in the 21st Century conference on
the Information Revolution, July 1998
David C. King. "Stability and Change in
Tim Groseclose & David C. King, "Committee
Theories and Committee Institutions." Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association.
David C. King, David Eddy-Spicer, Howard Husock,
"Riding a Dark Horse: Exploring the Dynamics of a Presidential Campaign
via Hyperspace." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association.
David C. King, Richard L. Zeckhauser, Sven E.
Feldmann. "Winning by a Little and Losing by a Lot on Congressional Roll
Call Votes." Annual Meeting of the
David C. King. "Public Goods, Private Interests,
and Participation in Congressional Committee Hearings."
David C. King. "The 1981 White House Conference
on Aging: Political Activities and Funding Sources of Included and Excluded
Groups." May 5, 1992
David C. King. "Congressional Committee
Jurisdictions and the Consequences of Reform," Annual Meeting of the
David C. King. "Congressional Committee
Jurisdictions and Institutional Change: The 1946 Legislative Reorganization
Act," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
David C. King. "The Strategic Timing of Campaign
Contributions in the
David C. King. "Representation Through
Participation in Committee Hearings: Ways and Means Committee Members and the
1978 Revenue Reform Act." Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association,
David C. King. "Interest Groups and Pollution on
the
“The 12th
Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service.” April 27,
2007.
“The 11th
Biannual Youth Survey on Politics and Public Service.” November 1,
2006.
“Religion,
Morality and Political Activism on College Campuses in the United States.”
April 11, 2006.
“Redefining
Political Attitudes and Activism.” November 16, 2005.
“The
Global Generation.” April 19, 2005.
"Coming of Age:
The Political Awakening of a Generation." October 21, 2004.
"College
and University Voter Mobilization Efforts." September 13, 2004.
"Are You Taking To
Me? A Guide to Reaching Young Voters." August 14, 2004.
Professional Activities
Faculty Affiliate:
Faculty Affiliate:
Faculty Moderator: Political Institutions Seminar, Wexner-Israel
Fellows, 1993 - 2006
Director,
Task Force on Election Administration, Carter-Ford National Commission on
Federal Election Reform, January 2001 to October 2002
Faculty Director: Executive Program for Members of the Russian Duma
and Federation Council, April 1994 to December 2003
Faculty Sponsor: Youth Engagement Initiative,
Associate Director: Harvard University, Visions of Governance for the
21st Century. 1995 – 1997
Section Head:
Political Parties and Interest Groups.
Courses: Election Reform, since 2007; Politics of
the U.S. Congress (Government Department: GOV1300), since 2006; The U.S. Congress and
Lawmaking, since 1992; Interest Group Activism
& Representation, 1997-2003; U.S. Political Parties in
Theory & Practice, 1998-2003; Public Policy
Prescription and Action, 1999; Elective and Advocacy Politics, 1993-1997;
Doctoral Research Seminar, 1993-1996.
Invited Talks
and Public Testimony (selective
list): “Attitudes
and the Formation of Attitudes Toward the U.S. Military,” U.S. Marine
Corps Recruiting Command (2008); Harvard
Latino Law, Business & Public Policy Conference (2008); “The
Grand Old Party: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” (2008); “Youth
Voting and Participation in the 2006 Elections,” The Columbia
Political Union (2007); The
University of Rochester (2007); “Early
Voting,” Massachusetts Joint Committee on Election Laws (2007); The
Cal-Tech/MIT Voting Technologies Project (2007), The
Institute for Social Planning, Moscow (2007), Symposium on the 125th
Anniversary of the Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Moscow-via-Satellite
(2007), The American Red Cross (2006), “Perspectives on
Constitutional Reform in Bolivia,” Catholic University of Bolivia
(2005), Plekhanov Russian Academy
of Economics (2005), West Point Military Academy (2005), Mojmir
Povolny Lecture, Lawrence
University (2005), Groupe d'étude et de recherche sur la sécurité
internationale, Montreal, Canada (2004), "The Power of One: Youth Vote
Summit" (2004), “The 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections in
Perspective,” U.S.
Mission to the United Nations (2004), Break Away (2004), Voting, Vote Capture,
and Vote Counting Symposium (2004), U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Command
(2004), U.S.
House Select Committee on Homeland Security (2003), Foreign Ministry and
Trade Representatives, Government of Panama, Panama City (2002), Young
President's Organization of Guatemala, La Antigua (2002), Moderator:
Massachusetts Republican Lt. Governor's Debate (2002)
Princeton University Conference on Trust in Government (2001), Society for
Social Studies of Science (2001), National Institute for Government Innovation
(2001), Moderator: Massachusetts 9th Congressional District Democratic Primary
Debate (2001), Voting Rights
Institute (2001), The
Congressional Black Caucus (2001), The Johnson Foundation, (2001), Harvard
Law School, Electoral Reform Project (2001), House Democratic Caucus
Issues Conference (2001), "Dimples,
Chads, Butterflies," Institute of Politics (2000), American Board of
Internal Medicine Foundation (2000), John C. Stennis Congressional Staff
Fellows (2000), Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies (2000),
Harvard Conference on Internet and Politics (2000), The Center for the Study of
the American Presidency (2000), The General Accounting Office (2000),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999), Defense Science Board Task Force
on Human Resources Strategy (1999), Northeast Fish & Wildlife Conference
(1999), Duke University (1999), University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill (1999), Columbia University, (1998), National
Association of Schools of Public Administration, Washington (1998), State
Duma of the Russian Federation, Moscow (1997), Laura B. Moore Memorial
Lecture, League of Women Voters (1997), Universidad Catolica de Nicaragua,
Managua (1996), Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago (1995,
1996); Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa (1995); University of Stockholm,
Sweden (1995, 1996); Korean Association for Policy Studies, Seoul (1995); Main
Hall Forum Lecture Series, Lawrence University (1993, 1995, 1998); Phillips
Lecture Series, The University of Michigan (1992)
Opinion
Pieces (selective list): “New
Orleans Vote Raises Fairness Issue,” Boston
Globe, April 18, 2006. “Bolivian Constitutional
Reform,” Pulso, November
25, 2005; "Youth Came Through with Big Turnout," Boston Globe,
November 5, 2004 (reprinted in Opposing
Viewpoints: America’s Youth, 2007), "Electoral Reform 2004,"
November 1, 2004. "Engage
Children in Elections," The
Faculty
Sponsor,
Community Activities
Elected Town
Meeting Member,
Boards: ’18
in ’08, 2008; Take Your Kids 2 Vote, 2008;
aPebble.com, 2008; Kids Voting USA, 2006
to 2007; Youth Voter Corps, 2001 to 2004; Common Cause, National
Governing Board, 1993 to 1996; Chair, Public Service Achievement Awards
Committee, 1996; Board of Directors and Treasurer, Common Cause in
Michigan, 1988 to 1992; Wisconsin Higher Educational Aids Board, 1983 to 1984.
Transition Team, Policy Planning Committee:
Honors
Richard F. Fenno Prize
for the "Best New Book on Legislatures," Turf Wars,
1998
Current Outstanding Academic Book Award, Why People Don't
Trust Government, 1998
E.
E. Schattschneider Prize for the best dissertation in American Government,
awarded by the American Political Science Association, 1993
Things that
Might not Belong on an Academic Vita: Born 1963;
Senior Common Room Fellow, Eliot House,
Harvard University; "Airplanes
and Little Kids," The Boston Parents Paper; December 1995;
"Notes on the
Uniform Distribution," The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball
History, 1995; "Bye-Bye Bottle," The
Boston Parents Paper, September, 1994; "John Kingdon as an Agenda
Item," Policy Currents, August 1994. Worked at Arthur Andersen
& Company as a Management Consultant, 1985-1986. Appleton (Wisconsin) East High School,
Speech Team Coach, 1983-1985. Played "Civilian at Hospital
Nurses' Station" on ABC's All My
Children, October 20, 1997; Rank of Corporal in the Heritage Military Music
Foundation.
Updated July 2008