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
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
A.B. 1985,
(Government; Philosophy), Lawrence University.
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