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Professor Desmond King

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, University of Oxford

Year Elected: 2003

His research in American politics centres on comparative politics: (1) Comparative Public Policy, including a comparison of the USA and Britain in respect of social policies, labour market policy and the theories of the New Right; (2) Comparative Political Economy, including urban policy; and (3) Ethnicity and Politics, as evidenced in his Making Americans.