TAYLOR E. DARK III is Chair of the Department of Political Science at California State University, Los Angeles. From 1996 to 2004 he was Associate Dean in the Graduate School of American Studies at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He has also taught at universities in Ukraine and Russia.

Prof. Dark is the author of The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999) and has published articles in Party Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Polity, Presidential Studies Quarterly, The National Interest, New Political Science, Interest Groups & Advocacy Journal of Labor Research, Labor History, International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, and PS: Political Science and Politics.

He also maintains the world's most comprehensive online list of political songs.

Dr. Dark embraces the spirit of Revolutionary War General William Darke, who was "often a member of the Virginia legislature, and, in the convention of 1788, voted for the Federal Constitution."

-- March 2022: Video interview on KCBS Los Angeles on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
-- June 2018: New article on unions and presidential access.
--June 2018: Quoted in an article in Time magazine on the recent Janus Supreme Court decision.
-- March 2016: Oxford report on overseas voting builds on my earlier work on the political participation of Americans abroad.
-- July 2014: Former NASA Chief Historian Roger Launius discusses my essay on space.

Books for Purchase

My book on unions and the Democratic party, published in 2001 by Cornell University Press.	Contains a chapter about labor unions in the presidential nominating process.
This volume (2008) contains an essay about labor unions in American elections.	The Societal Impact of Spaceflight, edited by Steven Dick and Roger Launius (NASA, 2008). This volume has an essay on American ideas about space travel.
My mother's book on "Fabulous Parties."