Daniel Disalvo

Professor and Chair

Main Affiliation

Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership

Additional Departments/Affiliated Programs

Political Science

Areas of Expertise/Research

  • American Political Parties
  • Elections
  • Labor Unions
  • Public Policy
  • State Government

Building

North Academic Center

Office

4/136

Phone

212-650-5940

Email

ddisalvo@ccny.cuny.edu

Daniel Disalvo

Profile

DANIEL DISALVO is professor and chair of political science in the Colin Powell School at t九色视频鈥揅UNY and a senior fellow at the . His scholarship focuses on American political parties, elections, labor unions, state government, and public policy. He is the author of Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics, 1868鈥2010 (Oxford 2012) and Government Against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences (Oxford 2015). His articles have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, and American Political Thought among others. DiSalvo also writes frequently for popular publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, National Affairs, City Journal, Los Angeles Times, and the New York Daily News. He was previously the co-editor of  and serves on the editorial board of the . He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University's , the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia). 

Education

Ph.D. Politics, University of Virginia. 2007.

Courses Taught

PSC 10100 United States Politics and Government 

PSC 21600 Political Parties and Interest Groups

PSC 22100 The Congress 

PSC 22200 The Presidency 

PSC 22400 U.S. Political Economy 

 

Publications

Books

 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).

 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Co-editor w/Martin Levin and Martin Shapiro.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

"Police Unions, Race, and Trust in the Police," (Summer 2023). w/Matt Nagler. 

"State Labor Laws and Government Responsiveness to Public Opinion, 57(3) (2023), 411-420. w/Patrick Flavin and Michael Hartney  

"Party Factions in American Politics," , No. 52 (Summer 2022). 

"Interest Groups, Local Politics, and Police Unions,"  (January 2022). 

"The Trouble with Police Unions,"  No. 45 (Fall 2020).

"Paradigm Shift in Municipal Credit Analysis,"  No. 3 (Fall 2020).

"Teachers Unions in the Post-Janus World," Vol. 20, No. 4 (Fall 2020).

"The Future of Public Employee Unions," No. 43 (Spring 2020).

"Edward C. Banfield and the Defense of Political Parties,"  9, no. 1 (Winter 2020): 85-114. 

"Party Politics and National Policy Post-World War II," , eds. Donald Critchlow and Paula Baker. Mew York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2020.

鈥淯nions, Parties, and the Politics of State Government Legacy Costs,鈥 Vol. 46, No. 3 (2018). w/Jeff Kucik 

鈥淰ested Interests and Policy-Focused Analysis: Medicaid Politics in New York,鈥  Vol. 33, No. 2 (2018).

鈥淓dward Banfield Revisited,鈥 32 (Summer 2017).

鈥淭he Multifaceted Oeuvre of Raymond Aron,鈥 Society Vol. 53, Issue 1 (April 2016). 

鈥,鈥 United States Supreme Court, Friedrichs et al. v. California Teachers Association, No. 14-915, September 11, 2015. w/Thomas R. McCarthy. 鈥

鈥淭he New American Spoils System,鈥 (March/April 2015). 

鈥淐贸mo los Sindicatos de Empleados P煤blics Debilitan al Gobierno: El Caso de las Escuelas de la Ciudad de Neuva York,鈥 En Letra No. 3, Febrero 2015. 

鈥淔actions and Intra-Party Conflict,鈥 in Encyclopedia of American Political Culture, ed. Michael Shally-Jensen. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. 2015.

"The Nature of Party Organizations," in , ed. Marjorie Hershey. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2014. 

"The Politics of Studying Politics: Political Science Since the 1960s,"  50(2) (2013).

"Liberty and Rights in American and British Conservatism," in , ed. Mark McNaught. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2012. w/ James W. Ceaser.

"Government Unions in America," in , ed. Roger Kimball. New York, NY: Encounter Books. 2012.

"How to Approach Public Sector Unions," in , eds. Yuval Levin and Meghan Clyne. New York, NY: Encounter Books. 2012.

"Legislative Coalitions, Polarization, and the U.S. Senate,"  9(4) (January 2012). 

"Neo-liberalism," in , eds. Paul Boyer, Donald Critchlow, and Philip R. VanderMeer. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2012.  

"The Trouble with Public Sector Unions,"  1(5) (Fall 2010).

"The Politics of a Party Faction: The Liberal-Labor Alliance in the Democratic Party, 1948-1972,"  (Summer 2010).

"Obama, un chef de parti,"  76 (hiver 2009/2010).

"Party Factions in Congress,"  36:1 (Spring 2009), 27-57.

"Four Traps: Overcoming Barriers to Effective Immigration Reform,"  Vol. IV, No. 4 (March-April 2009).

"Faith in the Primaries," Vol. 38, No. 2 (Spring 2009). w/Jerome Copulsky. 

"The Magnitude of the 2008 Democratic Victory: By the Numbers," in , 6th edition, eds. James P. Pfiffner and Roger H. Davidson (Pearson/Logman, 2010), w/ James W. Ceaser.