David Karol

David Karol's work has appeared in International Organization, the Journal of Politics, Brookings Review, and Studies in American Political Development. He is the author of Party Position Change in American Politics: Coalition Management (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press) and is a co-author of The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations before and after Reform (with Marty Cohen, Hans Noel and John Zaller) (University of Chicago Press, 2008), a study of the revived role of party establishments in determining presidential nominations in the post-reform era. His current research focuses on how and why political parties and institutions change policy positions. In related work he addresses the question of how the House, Senate and Presidency came to have predictable relative positions on trade policy.