Daniel Schlozman
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Chapter Member: Maryland-Washington, D.C. SSN
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About Daniel
Schlozman’s work seeks to understand how key actors in civil society and political parties, the premier organizers of democratic politics, relate to one another. His most recent book asks about relations between social movements and political parties in the United States since abolitionism, and a new project considers the back-and-forth between finance and center-left parties in America and the United Kingdom. Schlozman was a member of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee from 2001-2008, and chair of the Cambridge Democratic City Committee from 2011-2012.
Contributions
In the News
"The Republican Party Has Devolved Into a Racket," Sam Rosenfeld (with ), The New York Times, September 18, 2023.
"The Dilemmas for Democrats in 3 Past Visions for the Party," Daniel Schlozman (with ), Vox, June 13, 2019.
"How SPLC’s Co-Founder Morris Dees and the Conservative Richard Viguerie Changed American Politics," Daniel Schlozman, The Washington Post, April 2, 2019.
"Why Steve King’s Punishment Took So Long," Daniel Schlozman (with ), The New York Times, January 15, 2019.
Daniel Schlozman quoted on protests and political parties by Katharine Whittemore Boston Globe, March, 2017.
"Is the American Party System about to Crack Up?," Daniel Schlozman (with ), The Nation, May 5, 2016.
"Karl Rove is a Bad Historian: Race, the South and the Real Story He Doesn’t Tell about William McKinley and 1896," Daniel Schlozman, Salon, January 9, 2016.
Daniel Schlozman quoted on bridging the gap between socialism and liberalism by Matthew Yglesias, "The Political History behind Bernie Sanders's Call for Democratic Socialism" Vox, November 19, 2015.
Guest to discuss lame duck status of the mayor on Baltimore Public Radio, Daniel Schlozman, September 11, 2015.
"Democrats and Labor Unions are Doomed without Each Other – And So are We," Daniel Schlozman, The Hill, September 1, 2015.
"How the Christian Right Ended Up Transforming American Politics," Daniel Schlozman, Talking Points Memo, August 25, 2015.
Publications
"When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History" (Princeton University Press, 2015).
Tells the story of how major social movements throughout U.S. history confronted the American party system, with huge consequences for coalitions and policies. In particular, two alliances between parties and their allied anchoring groups have centrally shaped twentieth-century U.S. politics: the partnerships between organized labor and the Democrats since the 1930s, and the Christian Right and the GOP since the 1970s.
"How Initiatives Don’t Always Make Citizens: Ballot Initiatives in the American States, 1978-2004" (with ). Political Behavior 30, no. 4 (2008): 469-489.
Demonstrates that voter initiatives do not increase political knowledge or efficacy (a feeling that one can make a difference in politics), and raise turnout only in midterm elections.