David C. King
617-495-1665(voice)
617-834-0978(cell)
David_King@Harvard.edu
Academic Resume for David C.
King
Research Focus and Activities
Legislatures and Representation
Elections and Election Administration
Comparative Political Cultures and Institutions
The Political Mobilization 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
Faculty Affiliate, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and
Innovation, since 2006
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
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, since 2006
Ph.D. 1992, A.M. 1990, (Political Science), The University of
Michigan.
A.B. 1985, (Government; Philosophy),
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
David C. King & Richard L.
Zeckhauser. "Congressional
Leaders as Negotiation Anchors." February 16, 2009. Currently under review.
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.
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 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 Sponsor: Youth Engagement Initiative,
Associate Director: Harvard University, Visions of Governance for the
21st Century. 1995 – 1997
Section Head:
Political Parties and Interest Groups.
Degree Program
Teaching: 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.
Executive
Program Teaching: Program for Newly-Elected
Members of the U.S. Congress, since 1992
(Faculty Chair); Executive Program for Members of the Russian Duma and
Federation Council, April 1994 to December 2003 (Faculty Chair); Senior Managers in Government, 1995- 1997;
Senior Executives in National
and International Security, since 1996;
U.S. – Russia National Security Program, since
1998; The Black Sea Security Program, since
1999; Chinese Leaders in Development, since
1999.
Invited Talks
and Public Testimony (selective
list): “The Promise of Politics,” Public Conversations Project,
video (2009); Faculty Coordinator,
U.S. State Department I-VOTE program
for Future Leaders of Emerging Nations, video
(2008); “The Future of the Electoral College,” Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (2008); “The Internet and
Politics,” Harvard Law School (2008); Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative
(2008, 2006, 2004); “Elections and the Economy,” Property & Portfolio
Research (2008, 2004); “Youth Movements
in U.S. Elections: Past and Present,” Harvard Law School (2008); “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): “Obama and Higher Education,” HigherEdJobs.com, April
2009. “
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
- Multiple University-wide
teaching awards,
- Richard
F. Fenno Prize, "Best New Book on
Legislatures," Turf Wars,
1998
- Current Outstanding
Academic Book Award, Why
People Don't Trust Government, 1998
- E. E.
Schattschneider Prize, “Best Dissertation in American Government,” 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
Updated February 2009