David Karol

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Email: dkarol [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Phone: (510) 642-4648
Office Location: 788 Barrows
Office Hours: W 3:30-5:30
Fall 2008 Course: PS104 Political Parties,
PS279-1 American Field Seminar,
PS291 Research Workshop in American Politics
Photo of Professor David Karol David Karol is a specialist in American Politics with interests in Political Parties, Presidential Elections, Interest Groups/Social Movements and American Political Development. A product of UCLA's Political Science Department, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 2002-2003.

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 (under contract, 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), forthcoming, University of Chicago Press, 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.

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Department of Political Science
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