Sam Rosenfeld

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Sam Rosenfeld

Associate Professor of Political Science; Director, Public Affairs and Policy Research Initiative

Department/Office Information

Political Science
120 Persson Hall
  • M  10:00am - 12:00pm  (120 Persson Hall)
  • R  11:00am - 12:00pm  (120 Persson Hall)

View his personal website here.

Education

BA, Columbia University
MA, Harvard University
PhD, Harvard University

Teaching Experience

Courses 

  • Introduction to American Politics
  • American Elections and Party Power
  • The Presidency and Executive Leadership
  • American Political Development
  • War and the Shaping of American Politics
  • Political Polarization and American Democracy
Publications

Scholarship

Books

2024. The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics. With Daniel Schlozman. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

  • 2025. Paperback edition with new preface.

2018. The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Peer Reviewed Articles and Chapters

2025. “The Multiple Traditions in American Party Politics.” In Parties, Power, and Change: Developmental Approaches to American Party Politics, edited by Jessica Hejny and Adam Hilton, 25-46. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. With Daniel Schlozman. 

2020. “A Mix of Motives: The Georgia Delegation Challenge to the 1968 Democratic Convention and the Dynamics of Intraparty Conflict.” American Review of Politics 37.2: 48-70. With Nancy Schwartz.

2019. “The Hollow Parties.” In Can America Govern Itself?, edited by Frances Lee and Nolan McCarty, 120-151. New York: Cambridge University Press. With Daniel Schlozman.

2010. “Fed by Reform: Congressional Politics, Partisan Change, and the Food Stamp Program, 1961-1981.” Journal of Policy History 22.4: 474-507.

Editor Reviewed Articles and Chapters

2018. “Party Blobs and Partisan Visions: Making Sense of Our Hollow Parties.” In The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties 8th ed., edited by John C. Green, Daniel J. Coffey, and David B. Cohen, 32-48. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. With Daniel Schlozman. 

2018. “Prophets of Party in American Political History.” The Forum 15.4: 684-709. With Daniel Schlozman.

Works in Progress

2028 (under advance contract). The Policy Bet: Democrats’ Failed Answer to America’s Democratic Crisis. With Daniel Schlozman. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
  • Finalist, PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers, 2025 (for The Hollow Parties)
  • Max Shacknai COVE Faculty Engagement Award, 2023
  • Max Shacknai COVE Course Development Grant, 2022
  • Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2012
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation Moody Grant, 2012
  • Charles Warren Center Term-Time Dissertation Research Grant, 2011
  • Harry S. Truman Library Institute Research Grant, 2010
  • Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Travel Grant, 2010
  • Center for American Political Studies Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2010