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Citations
10678
World Ranking
300
National Ranking
44

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Desmond King is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily centers around social sciences, with a strong focus on political science and international relations as well as sociology and political science. Additional areas of study include general health professions, finance, and law.

Their scholarly work explores a range of topics including electoral systems and political participation, migration, refugees, and integration, political philosophy and ethics, populism and right-wing movements, employment and welfare studies, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, as well as American constitutional law and politics.

Desmond King has contributed multiple papers to various academic journals. Some recent publications include:

  • "White Protectionism in America," 2020, Perspectives on Politics
  • "Illiberalism," 2020, European Journal of Sociology
  • "Racial Reparations against White Protectionism: America's New Racial Politics," 2021, The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics
  • "The Racialized Pandemic: Wave One of COVID-19 and the Reproduction of Global North Inequalities," 2021, Perspectives on Politics
  • "COVID-19: A Crisis of Borders," 2021, PS Political Science & Politics

Frequent coauthors include Rogers M. Smith, Gerda Hooijer, Jasper Theodor Kauth, Anna Boucher, and Isabelle Napier.

They have published multiple times in venues such as:

  • Perspectives on Politics
  • The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics
  • European Journal of Sociology
  • PS Political Science & Politics
  • Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race

Their academic recognition includes being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017 and becoming a Member of Academia Europaea in 2016.

Best Publications

  • The Politics of Path Dependency: Political Conflict in Historical Institutionalism

    B. Guy Peters;Jon Pierre;Desmond S. King

  • Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy

    Desmond S. King

  • Racial orders in American political development

    Desmond S. King;Rogers M. Smith

  • The state and the city

    Ted Robert Gurr;Desmond S. King

  • Actively Seeking Work?: The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain

    Desmond S. King

  • In The Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the USA and Britain

    Desmond S. King

  • The new right : politics, markets and citizenship

    Desmond S. King

  • Decline in ICU adverse events, nosocomial infections and cost through a quality improvement initiative focusing on teamwork and culture change

    M Jain;L Miller;D Belt;D King

  • Citizenship, Social Citizenship and the Defence of Welfare Provision

    Desmond S. King;Jeremy Waldron

  • The Political Economy of Neoliberalism: Britain and the United States in the 1980s

    Desmond King;Stewart Wood

  • Rethinking Local Democracy

    Desmond S. King;Gerry Stoker

  • Cheap Labor: The New Politics of “Bread and Roses” in Industrial Democracies

    Desmond King;David Rueda

  • Still a House Divided

    Desmond S. King;Rogers M. Smith

  • Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama's America

    Desmond S. King;Rogers M. Smith

  • Eugenic Ideas, Political Interests, and Policy Variance: Immigration and Sterilization Policy in Britain and the U.S.

    Randall Hansen;Desmond S. King

  • In The Name of Liberalism

    Desmond King

  • From Clinton to Blair: The Democratic (Party) Origins of Welfare to Work

    Desmond King;Mark Wickham-Jones

  • Regime Politics in London Local Government

    Keith Dowding;Patrick Dunleavy;Desmond King;Helen Z Margetts

  • The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation

    Desmond S. King

  • Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America

    Randall Hansen;Desmond S. King

  • Rational Choice and Community Power Structures

    Keith Dowding;Patrick Dunleavy;Desmond King;Helen Margetts

  • Challenges to local government

    Desmond S. King;Jon Pierre

  • Formalizing and Testing Duverger's Theories on Political Parties

    Kenneth Janda;Desmond S. King

  • BARACK OBAMA AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN RACIAL POLITICS

    Rogers M. Smith;Desmond S. King

  • Forceful Federalism against American Racial Inequality

    Desmond King

  • Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State by Robert C. Lieberman

    Desmond King

  • Actively Seeking Work? The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain

    Colin Crouch;Desmond King

Frequent Co-Authors

Rogers M. Smith
Rogers M. Smith University of Pennsylvania
Randall Hansen
Randall Hansen University of Toronto
Lawrence R. Jacobs
Lawrence R. Jacobs University of Minnesota
Ted Robert Gurr
Ted Robert Gurr University of Maryland, College Park
Keith Dowding
Keith Dowding Australian National University
Patrick Dunleavy
Patrick Dunleavy London School of Economics and Political Science
Helen Margetts
Helen Margetts University of Oxford
Jon Pierre
Jon Pierre University of Gothenburg
Frank Dobbin
Frank Dobbin Harvard University
Yvonne Rydin
Yvonne Rydin University College London

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