DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Interests

Research Interest(s): American political economy, American political development, labor policy and politics, labor standards enforcement, organizing and collective action, American government, presidency, parties, multi-method research

Program Area(s): American Politics

Regional Specialization(s): United States

Subfield Specialties: American Political Development; American Political Economy; Comparative Historical Analysis; Political Parties

Joint Appointment

Institute for Policy Research 

Biography

Daniel J. Galvin (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He is the author of Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers' Rights (2024), Presidential Party Building: Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush (2010), co-editor of Rethinking Political Institutions: the Art of the State (2006), and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters.

Galvin is the Director of the Workplace Justice Lab@NU, Chair of the Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy program at the Institute of Policy Research, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political Science. He is affiliated with the Comparative-Historical Social Science program and the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy at Northwestern.

Galvin’s research has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, the National Science Foundation, the Economic Policy Institute, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the AT&T Research Fellowship, the Miller Center for Public Affairs, the LBJ Foundation, and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Foundation. His work has been recognized with several awards, including the Mary Parker Follett best article prize from the APSA Politics and History section, the 2017 Best Paper Award from the APSA Public Policy section, and the 2012 Emerging Scholar Award from the APSA Political Organizations and Parties section. His teaching has been recognized with the E. LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching (the highest teaching award in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences) and the R. Barry Farrell Teaching Award (Department of Political Science), and he was twice elected by the Northwestern student body to the Faculty Honor Roll.

Books

• Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers' Rights (Russell Sage Foundation, 2024)
• Presidential Party Building: Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).
• Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State, co-edited with Ian Shapiro and Stephen Skowronek (New York: NYU Press, 2006).

Select Publications

• "Labor’s Legacy: The Construction of Subnational Work Regulation," ILR Review (2020). 
• “The Political Effects of Policy Drift: Policy Stalemate and American Political Development,” with Jacob S. Hacker. Studies in American Political Development 34, 1 (2020). 
• “Party Domination and Base Mobilization: Donald Trump and Republican Party Building in a Polarized Era,” The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics (Summer 2020). 
• “From Labor Law to Employment Law: The Changing Politics of Workers’ Rights,” Studies in American Political Development 33, 1 (April 2019): 50-86. (Winner of the Mary Parker Follett Prize for Best Article, APSA Politics and History section.) 
• “Deterring Wage Theft: Alt-Labor, State Politics, and the Policy Determinants of Minimum Wage Compliance,” Perspectives on Politics 14, 2 (2016): 324-350. (Winner of the 2017 Best Paper on Public Policy Award, APSA Public Policy section.)

Awards

• E. LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching (highest teaching award given by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences), 2015
• Faculty Honor Roll, Northwestern University, 2011, 2010
• R. Barry Farrell Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Political Science, 2010

Courses taught

• Labor in America (338)
• American Government and Politics (220)
• The American Presidency (320)
• U.S. Party Development (395)
• American Political Development (419)
• The Presidency (414)
• American Political Parties (490)