Daniel DiSalvo is an Assistant Professor of Political Science the City College of New York ? CUNY. He received his doctorate in Politics from the University of Virginia and was previously Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor at Amherst College. His work focuses on American political parties, elections, labor unions, and public policy. He has written on these topics for both scholarly and popular publications, including National Affairs, The Public Interest, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, The New York Daily News, The Tocqueville Review, Congress & the Presidency, and The Journal of Policy History.