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PhD Sociology University of Essex
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According to Wikipedia, Desmond King is the Andrew W. Mellon professor of American Government at Nuffield College, Oxford. King was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. Biography King grew up in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a first in political science and was awarded the Bastable Prize. He went on to carry out his postgraduate studies at Northwestern University, where he worked with Ted Robert Gurr, Alexander Hicks and Jane Mansbridge. He completed his M.A. and PhD at Northwestern, and was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, later moving to an Official Fellowship in Politics at St John's College, Oxford.

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Desmond King 's Published Works

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The Politics of Path Dependency: Political Conflict in Historical Institutionalism (2005) (573)
Eugenic Ideas, Political Interests, and Policy Variance: Immigration and Sterilization Policy in Britain and the U.S. (2001) (176)
Cheap Labor: The New Politics of “Bread and Roses” in Industrial Democracies (2008) (143)
Ironies of State Building: A Comparative Perspective on the American State (2009) (75)
The Unsustainable American State (2009) (71)
The Conservatives and Training Policy 1979–1992: From a Tripartite to a Neoliberal Regime (1993) (55)
Experts at Work: State Autonomy, Social Learning and Eugenic Sterilization in 1930s Britain (1999) (47)
Varieties of Obamaism: Structure, Agency, and the Obama Presidency (2010) (37)
The State and Democratization: The United States in Comparative Perspective (2004) (32)
Employers, Training Policy, and the Tenacity of Voluntarism in Britain (1997) (27)
Contractual governance and illiberal contracts: some problems of contractualism as an instrument of behaviour management by agencies of government (2003) (20)
The American State and Social Engineering: Policy Instruments in Affirmative Action (2007) (19)
Creating a Funding Regime for Social Research in Britain: The Heyworth Committee on Social Studies and the Founding of the Social Science Research Council (1997) (18)
Fed Power: How Finance Wins (2016) (17)
Critics and Beyond (2010) (17)
America's Political Crisis: The Unsustainable State in a Time of Unraveling (2009) (17)
Finding the American State: Transcending the “Statelessness” Account (2008) (16)
Political Centralization and Policy Constraint in British Executive Leadership: Lessons from American Presidential Studies in the Era of Sofa Politics (2007) (14)
How the U.S. State Works: A Theory of Standardization (2011) (14)
Working for Benefits: Rational Choice and the Rise of Work—Welfare Programmes (1992) (12)
The New Risk Regulators? International Organisations and Globalisation (2003) (10)
The Reinvention of Vouchers for a Color-Blind Era: A Racial Orders Account (2019) (8)
The Racial Bureaucracy: African Americans and the Federal Government in the Era of Segregated Race Relations (1999) (8)
The Political Crisis of the American State (2012) (8)
Towards transitional justice? Black reparations and the end of mass incarceration (2018) (7)
American State Building (2009) (6)
The New Right and Public Policy (1994) (6)
The Missing State in Postwar American Political Thought (2009) (6)
COVID-19: A Crisis of Borders (2021) (5)
The Civil Rights State: How the American State Develops Itself (2011) (5)
The Racialized Pandemic: Wave One of COVID-19 and the Reproduction of Global North Inequalities (2021) (4)
Obama at the Crossroads: Politics, Markets, And The Battle For America's Future (2012) (4)
“The World’s Against Me As A Black Man”: Charles Mingus and Segregated America (2002) (4)
Ironies of the American State (2009) (4)
The Fed’s Political Economy (2018) (4)
“The Latter-Day General Grant”: Forceful Federal Power and Civil Rights (2020) (4)
Fed Power (3)
Federalism and subnational democratization in the United States: The south in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (2016) (3)
The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve. By Sarah Binder and Mark Spindel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 296p. $35.00 cloth. (2018) (2)
Preparing for the Next Financial Crisis (2021) (2)
The American State (2016) (2)
Dimensions of equality Dennis McKerlie 263 imagining interest Stephen G. Engelmann 289 the self-other asymmetry and act-utilitarianism (2001) (0)
The paradox of the American state: public-private partnerships in American state-building (2013) (0)
Response to Sarah Binder and Mark Spindel’s review of Fed Power: How Finance Wins (2018) (0)
Weak State, Strong State, Deep State (2021) (0)
The Fed’s Legitimacy Problem (2021) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
Book Reviews (1995) (0)
Truth and Reparation for the U.S. Imprisonment and Policing Regime (2021) (0)
Concealed Advantage (0)
Five Years After: The Long-Term Effects of Welfare-to-Work Programs.@@@Actively Seeking Work? The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain. (1996) (0)
Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State by Robert C. Lieberman (1999) (0)
The Rise of the Fed State (2021) (0)
Remarks on "relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state." Gurminder K. Bhambra. (2022) (0)
Republican Remedies (2021) (0)
Poverty, Inequality, and the Future of Social Policy: Western States in the New World Order . Edited by McFate Katherine, Lawson Roger, and Wilson William Julius. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1995. 723p. $70.00. (1997) (0)
Keeping the American Federal State Active: The Imperative of “Race-Sensitive” Policy (2019) (0)
The American State and the Enduring Politics of Race (2016) (0)
The Reinvention of Vouchers for a Color-Blind Era: A Racial Orders Account—CORRIGENDUM (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (1992) (0)
Book Reviews (1996) (0)
Book Reviews (1993) (0)
Migration and COVID-19 (2020) (0)

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