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Social Sciences Division
Politics Department
Professor
Faculty
Legal Studies
Regular Faculty
Politics
United States Politics and Government
Political Science
Merrill College Academic Building
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B.A. Haverford College, 1982
PhD Cornell University, 1988
Congressional Fellow, American Political Science Association, 1993-4.
American politics and political history. U.S. military policy. The Senate and Congress.
Daniel Wirls’ research interests range across American politics, institutions, public policy, and political history. He has published work on the founding period and the early Senate, antebellum representation in the Senate and House, the Seventeenth Amendment, Cold War and post-Cold War military policy, and contemporary political transformations. His most recent books are The Senate: From White Supremacy to Government Gridlock (University of Virginia Press, 2021); The Federalist Papers and Institutional Power in American Political Development (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015) and Irrational Security: The Politics of Defense from Reagan to Obama (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).
Congress, the President, and Court in American Political Development
The Politics and Policies of American Defense
Congress: Representation and Legislation
American Political Development
Politics: Power, Principle, Process, and Policy
- The Senate: From White Supremacy to Government Gridlock (University of Virginia Press, 2021)
- The Federalist Papers and Institutional Power in American Political Development (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015)
- Irrational Security: The Politics of Defense from Reagan to Obama (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
- The Invention of the United States Senate (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
- Buildup: The Politics of Defense in the Reagan Era (Cornell University Press, 1992)
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