Daniel DiSalvo

Prof. Daniel DiSalvo

The City College of New York, Professor and Chair of Political Science

Daniel DiSalvo is professor and chair of political science in the Colin Powell School at the City College of New York–CUNY and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His scholarship focuses on American political parties, elections, labor unions, state government, and public policy. He is the author of Engines of Change: Party Factions in American Politics, 1868–2010 (Oxford, 2012) and Government Against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences (Oxford, 2015). His articles have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Policy Studies Journal, and American Political Thought among others. DiSalvo also writes frequently for popular publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, National Affairs, City Journal, American Interest, The Weekly Standard, Los Angeles Times, and the New York Daily News. He is co-editor of The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics. He has held visiting appointments at the James Madison Program at Princeton University and the CUNY Graduate Center. 

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