| Curriculum Vitae
Academic Appointments
2005-present: California
State University, Los Angeles
Chair of Political Science Department, 2020-present
Professor, 2011-present
Associate Professor, 2005-2011
1996-2004: Doshisha
University, Kyoto, Japan
Graduate
School of American Studies
Associate Dean, 1998-2004
Associate Professor of American Politics, 1996-2004
1995-1996: University
of California, Irvine
Department of Political
Science
Visiting Lecturer
1993-1995: Civic
Education Project
Faculty Fellow
Chernivtsi
State University, Ukraine
Kuban State University, Krasnodar,
Russia
1990-1993: University
of California, Berkeley
Department
of Political Science
Teaching Assistant and Lecturer
1989-1990:
Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
Governance Studies Program
Research Fellow
Education
 Ph.D.,
1993: University
of California, Berkeley
Political
Science
M.A., 1986: University
of California, Berkeley
Political
Science
M.Sc., 1984: London
School of Economics and PoliticalScience
Department of Government
 B.A., 1983: University
of California, Berkeley
Political
Science
Publications
Citations List
Google Scholar Profile
Book
The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance (Ithaca:
Cornell University
Press, 1999; updated paperback edition, with analysis
of 2000 presidential election, published by Cornell in 2001).
More here.
Journal Articles/Book Chapters
"Partisan Polarization and Political Access: Labor Unions and the Presidency," Interest Groups & Advocacy (May 2018)
“Trade Unions and the Democratic Party,” The Oxford Companion to American Politics, edited by David Coates (Oxford University Press, 2012)
"The Economic Crisis and Organized Labor: Resentment over Solidarity," New Political Science (December 2011)
“Liberals, Labor, and Party Government,” Polity (July 2011)
"Prospects for Labor Law Reform," Perspectives on Work (Winter 2009)
“The Democrats and Organized Labor: The Partnership Continues,” in Voting in America, ed. Morgan Felchner (Greenwood, 2008)
“Reclaiming
the Future: Space Advocacy and the Idea of Progress,”
in The
Societal Impact of Spaceflight, ed. Steven Dick
(Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
2008)
“Organization
Theory and Stages of Decline: The Case of the AFL-CIO,
1955-2005,” International
Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior (Summer 2007)
“Americans Abroad: The Challenge of a Globalized Electorate,”
PS:
Political Science & Politics (October 2003)
"To Reward and Punish:
A Classification of Union Political Strategies," Journal
of Labor Research (Summer 2003)
"From
Resistance to Adaptation: Labor Unions in Presidential
Nominating Politics," in The
Making of the Presidential Candidates, 2004,
ed. William G. Mayer (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield,
2003)
"The Rise
of a Global Party? American Party Organizations Abroad," Party Politics (March 2003) "Labor and the Democratic
Party: A Report on the 1998 Elections," Journal
of Labor Research (Fall 2000)
"Debating
Decline: the 1995 Battle for the AFL-CIO Presidency,"
Labor
History (Summer 1999)
"Organized Labor and the Congressional
Democrats," Political
Science Quarterly (Spring 1996)
"Organized Labor and Party Reform:
A Reassessment," Polity
(Summer 1996)
"Organized Labor and the Presidential Nominating Process,"
Presidential
Studies Quarterly (Summer 1996)
"No
Illusions--Russia's Student Generation," The
National Interest (Spring 1996). Reprinted in Prospect
(UK), July 1996.
"Organized Labor and the Carter Administration: The Origins
of Conflict," in
The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter,
ed. Herbert Rosenbaum and Alexej Ugrinsky (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1994)
Book Review:
Jonathan Steele, Eternal Russia: Yeltsin,
Gorbachev, and the Mirage of Democracy in the International
Journal of Comparative Sociology (Summer 1996)
Presentations
“Donald Trump, Populism, and Organized Labor,” American Political Science Association, Aug. 28-Sept. 1, 2019, Washington, D.C.
“Still an Enduring Alliance? The Unions and the Democrats during the Obama Years,” Western Political Science Association, March 28-30, 2013, Los Angeles.
Invited Lecture: “Obama and Labor,” University of California, Los Angeles, sponsored by UCLA Department of Political Science and UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, December 1, 2010.
Video of this presentation.
“Party Government, Labor, and the Left”
Midwestern Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2-5, 2009
“The New Debate Over Party Government”
Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 19-21, 2009
“Representing Labor in Congress: The Enduring Quest for Labor Law Reform”
Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA, March 2008
Invited Lecture and Paper: "Barack Obama, Liberalism, and the Presidency," Doshisha University Conference, The US Presidential Election in a Global Perspective, Nov. 22, 2008
“Representing Labor in Congress: The Enduring Quest for Labor Law Reform,”
Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA, March 2008
Invited Lecture: “The Paradox of Organized
Labor: Economic Decline and Political Resilience,”
Carleton College, April 5, 2007
“Reclaiming the Future: Space Advocacy and the Idea
of Progress,” NASA
Conference on the Societal Impact of the Space Program,
Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2006
Invited Lecture and Paper: “Is There a Revival
of American Unionism?” International Political Science
Executive Committee Meeting, Fukuoka, Japan, April 4, 2004
"Roundtable on the Making of the Presidential Candidates
2004,"
American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA,
September 2003
“2002
Election Night Wrap-Up,” Doshisha University Forum,
Kyoto, Japan, November 2002
“The Great
Election Debacle of 2000,” Doshisha University Symposium
on the Presidential Election of 2000, Kyoto, Japan, November
2000
"Taking Bargaining Seriously: Union Political
Strategies in a Two-Party System," American Political Science
Association, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1999
"Labor Neotraditionalism: Notes Towards a Theory,"
American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.,
August 1997
"Clinton and the Unions: Change or Continuity?"
American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August
1996
"The Democratic Party and Organized Labor:
The Congressional Nexus," American Political Science Association,
Washington, D.C., August 1991
"Organized Labor and the Johnson Administration:
The Limits and Possibilities of Power," Western Political
Science Association, Seattle, Washington, March 1991
"Organized Labor and the Carter Administration:
The Origins of Conflict," Eighth Hofstra University Presidential
Conference, September 1990
"The Evolving Role of Organized Labor in the Democratic
Party, 1960-1988," North American Labor History Conference,
Detroit, Michigan, October 1990
Academic Honors and Distinctions
"Professor of the Year," 2007, awarded
by CSULA Pi Sigma
Alpha
Doshisha University Research Grant, 2001
Brookings
Institution Research Fellow, 1989-1990
University Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, 1991-1992
Everett
C. Dirksen Center Congressional Research Grant, 1990
Distinction, Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam in Comparative Politics,
1988 Political Science Departmental Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley,
1985-1986
University and Professional Service
Manuscript Review
American Political Science Review
Journal
of Politics
Political Research Quarterly
International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior
Labor
History
University of
Illinois Press
University of California International and Area Studies
Digital Publishing Program
Longman Publishers
Member, Editorial Board, Labor
History (2003-2008)
Member, Editorial Board, Doshisha
American Studies (1998-2004)
California State University, Los Angeles
Served on numerous department, college, and university committees, 2007-present.
Organized student trips to Washington DC (March 2012 and June 2015) and Sacramento (March 2010 and April 2019)
Faculty Advisor, 2009-present, CSULA Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honorary Society and CSULA Political Science Association (composed of CSULA students)
Doshisha University
Associate Dean, 1999-2004: Responsible for academic hiring,
course development, hosting foreign visitors, grant applications,
etc.
Secured grant of $23,000 from U.S.-Japan
Friendship Commission for two symposiums on the American
presidential election of 2000.
Secured grant of $20,000 from U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission
for symposium on the American presidential election of 2004.
Research Director, Graduate School of American Studies (responsible
for allotment of $65,000 annually to various research projects),
1999-2004
Political Involvement and Observation
Faculty Leader, The Washington
Center, Presidential Inauguration Program, Washington,
D.C ., January 2005
Faculty Leader, The Washington
Center, Republican National Convention Program, New
York City, August/September, 2004
Special Guest, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles,
2000
Delegate, Democrats
Abroad Global Convention, Paris, France, April 2000
Campaign Chair, Democrats Abroad 2000 Global Campaign
Vice-Chair, Democrats
Abroad Japan, 1998-2001
Founder, Democrats Abroad Japan, Kansai Branch
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