Desmond S King
Biographic Data
| ID | 137637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Desmond S King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Desmond S |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fenway Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3296-0407 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 759 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Disparities in depression and anxiety at the intersection of race and gender identity in a large community health sample
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Completeness at US Federally Qualified Health Centers, 2020 and 2021
Objectives. To assess the performance of US federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) after 6 years of required sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data reporting and update estimated proportions of sexual and gender minorities cared for at FQHCs. Methods. We conducted secondary analyses of data reported to the 2020 and 2021 Uniform Data System from 1297 FQHCs caring for nearly 30 000 000 patients annually. We used multivariable logist…
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection at US Health Centers: Impact of City-Level Structural Stigma in 2018
Objectives. To examine the relationship between city-level structural stigma pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) and completeness of patient SOGI data collection at US federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). Methods. We used the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index to quantify city-level structural stigma against sexual and gender minority people in 506 US cities across 49 states. We ascertained the complet…
Required Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Reporting by US Health Centers: First-Year Data
Objectives. To assess the performance of US health centers during the first year of required sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data reporting and to estimate the baseline proportion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients accessing health centers. Methods. We conducted a secondary analysis of SOGI data from 2016. These data were reported by 1367 US health centers caring for 25 860 296 patients in the United States and terr…
Psychological Attempts to Change a Person’s Gender Identity From Transgender to Cisgender: Estimated Prevalence Across US States, 2015
Objectives. To examine exposure to psychological attempts to change a person’s gender identity from transgender to cisgender (PACGI) among transgender people in the United States, lifetime and between the years 2010 and 2015, by US state. Methods. We obtained data from the 2015 US Transgender Survey, a cross-sectional nonprobability sample of 27 716 transgender people in the United States, to estimate the percentage exposed to PACGI in each US st…
Treatment Outcomes Associated with Quitting Cigarettes Among Sexual Minority Men Living with HIV: Antiretroviral Adherence, Engagement in Care, and Sustained HIV RNA Suppression
Towards transitional justice? Black reparations and the end of mass incarceration
There are many commonalities between the goals of transitional justice and domestic redress movements. We look at the movement for reparations for enslavement and Jim Crow in the United States as an example of a domestic reparations movement, and argue for the usefulness of the concept of transitional justice. We are particularly interested in showing that a future democratic transition - the end of mass incarceration - could animate a renewed pu…
The Last Stand: Shelby County v. Holder, White Political Power, and America’s Racial Policy Alliances
In 2013, the United States Supreme Court decidedShelby County v. Holder, which invalidated Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The ruling is part of longstanding efforts to maintain American institutions that have provided wide-ranging benefits to White citizens, including disproportionate political power. Over time, such efforts are likely to fail to prevent significant increases in political gains for African Americans, Latinos, and …
Breast Cancer Risk in Sexual Minority Women during Routine Screening at an Urban LGBT Health Center
Adherence to Mammography Screening Guidelines Among Transgender Persons and Sexual Minority Women
We used retrospective (2012–2013) chart review to examine breast cancer screening among transgender persons and sexual minority women (n = 1263) attending an urban community health center in Massachusetts. Transgender were less likely than cisgender patients and bisexuals were less likely than heterosexuals and lesbians to adhere to mammography screening guidelines (respectively, adjusted odds ratios = 0.53 and 0.56; 95% confidence intervals = 0.…
Without Regard to Race: Critical Ideational Development in Modern American Politics
Many scholars note that racial policy issues now focus on color-blind versus race-conscious approaches to racial inequalities, but they have not adequately explained how this development occurred or its consequences. Using work theorizing the role of ideas in politics, this article argues that these changes represent a “critical ideational development.” Diverse strains in earlier racial policy positions were reformulated to advance not just old r…
Obama at the crossroads: Politics, markets, and the battle for America's future
The 2010 election serves as a bookend to one of the remarkable political periods in recent US history. Amidst a profound economic crisis, Americans elected an African American to the presidency and massive Democratic majorities to Congress. This book analyses this extraordinary period
Still a house divided: Race and politics in Obama's America
“That is the last speech he will ever make”: The Antebellum Racial Alliances
This chapter discusses the formation of political alliances centered on differences over racial politics in antebellum America. Even before there was a Constitution, there were pro-slavery and anti-slavery alliances in the not-so-United States. Indeed, the Declaration of Independence, which embedded the rhetoric of human equality and inalienable rights into American political culture, still sought to justify tribal subjugation (by denouncing “mer…
Symposium sur Inventing Equal Opportunity de Frank Dobbin
L’ouvrage publié par Frank Dobbin aux Presses de l’université de Princeton en 2009 sous le titre Inventing equal opportunities offre une contribution innovante et stimulante sur les thèmes de la diversité et de l’égalité des chances aux États-Unis mais aussi sur ce qu’il nous permet de comprendre en creux sur le cas français. Pour rendre pleinement compte de la richesse de cet ouvrage, nous avons choisi de solliciter des auteurs s’inscrivant dans…
Symposium sur Inventing Equal Opportunity de Frank Dobbin
Challenging History: Barack Obama & American Racial Politics
Modern American racial politics remains sharply divided over racial policy issues, with coalitions of political activists, groups, and governing institutions aligned on opposing sides. A “color-blind” policy alliance urges government to act with as little regard to race as possible. A “race-conscious” alliance argues that policies should aim to reduce material racial inequalities and that race-targeted measures are often needed. These modern raci…
Varieties of Obamaism: Structure, Agency, and the Obama Presidency
President Obama's record stands out among modern presidents because of the wide range between his accomplishments and the boldness of his as-yet unfulfilled promises. Obamaism is a complex phenomenon, with multiple themes and policy ends. In this paper we examine the administration's initiatives drawing upon recent scholarship in political science to consider the political, economic and institutional constraints that Obama has faced and to assess…
Barack Obama and the Future of American Racial Politics
In 2008, following a campaign in which racial issues were largely absent, Americans elected their first Black president. This article argues that Obama's election does not signal the dawn of a postracial era in U.S. politics. Rather, it reflects the current structure of racial politics in the United States-a division between those who favor color-blind policies and seek to keep racial discussions out of politics, and those who favor race-consciou…
Strange Bedfellows? Polarized Politics? The Quest for Racial Equity in Contemporary America
Some scholars see contemporary American politics as characterized by “strange bedfellows” on racial issues and by polarization driven by economic, not racial, views. The authors argue instead that on most issues with racial dimensions, political actors and institutions are aligned into two racial orders, one favoring “color-blind” policies and the other “race-conscious” measures. Coalitions on two issues—affirmative action in employment and major…
The Polarized Presidency of George W. Bush
This book examines the foreign and domestic policies of President George W. Bush's administration. The analysis begins with an account of how highly polarized — in terms of public opinion and electoral patterns — this presidency has proved to be (in a chapter by the editors). This is followed by chapters on the use of unilateral executive powers (by Louis Fisher and William Howell) and prerogative powers (by Richard Pious). Because the policy cho…
The Politics of Path Dependency: Political Conflict in Historical Institutionalism
The conventional critique of institutional theory, and especially historical institutionalism, is that it is incapable of coping with change. We argue for the importance of political conflict as a means of initiating change in an institutionalist framework. In particular, conflict over ideas and the underlying assumptions of policy is important for motivating change. We demonstrate the viability of this argument with examples of institutional cha…
Racial Orders in American Political Development
American political science has long struggled to deal adequately with issues of race. Many studies inaccurately treat their topics as unrelated to race. Many studies of racial issues lack clear theoretical accounts of the relationships of race and politics. Drawing on arguments in the American political development literature, this essay argues for analyzing race, and American politics more broadly, in terms of two evolving, competing "racial ins…
Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the US Federal Government
Desmond King argues that the US federal government was inherently unequal in their treatment of Black Americans both in its own ranks as well as through federal programmes, especially before the 1960s; instead of thwarting segregated race relations, he maintains, the federal government participated in their maintenance and diffusion. Using extensive and original archival sources, King documents how Black American employees were segregated in fede…
Actively seeking work?: The politics of unemployment and welfare policy in the United States and Great Britain
Racial Orders in American Political Development
American political science has long struggled to deal adequately with issues of race. Many studies inaccurately treat their topics as unrelated to race. Many studies of racial issues lack clear theoretical accounts of the relationships of race and politics. Drawing on arguments in the American political development literature, this essay argues for analyzing race, and American politics more broadly, in terms of two evolving, competing "racial ins…
The Politics of Path Dependency: Political Conflict in Historical Institutionalism
The conventional critique of institutional theory, and especially historical institutionalism, is that it is incapable of coping with change. We argue for the importance of political conflict as a means of initiating change in an institutionalist framework. In particular, conflict over ideas and the underlying assumptions of policy is important for motivating change. We demonstrate the viability of this argument with examples of institutional cha…
Citizenship, Social Citizenship and the Defence of Welfare Provision
This article analyses the normative status of claims to the social rights of citizenship in the light of New Right criticisms of the welfare state. The article assesses whether there is any normative justification for treating welfare provision and citizenship as intrinsically linked. After outlining T. H. Marshall's conception of citizenship the article reviews its status in relation to: traditional arguments about citizenship of the polity; rel…
Without Regard to Race: Critical Ideational Development in Modern American Politics
Many scholars note that racial policy issues now focus on color-blind versus race-conscious approaches to racial inequalities, but they have not adequately explained how this development occurred or its consequences. Using work theorizing the role of ideas in politics, this article argues that these changes represent a “critical ideational development.” Diverse strains in earlier racial policy positions were reformulated to advance not just old r…
Barack Obama and the Future of American Racial Politics
In 2008, following a campaign in which racial issues were largely absent, Americans elected their first Black president. This article argues that Obama's election does not signal the dawn of a postracial era in U.S. politics. Rather, it reflects the current structure of racial politics in the United States-a division between those who favor color-blind policies and seek to keep racial discussions out of politics, and those who favor race-consciou…
Varieties of Obamaism: Structure, Agency, and the Obama Presidency
President Obama's record stands out among modern presidents because of the wide range between his accomplishments and the boldness of his as-yet unfulfilled promises. Obamaism is a complex phenomenon, with multiple themes and policy ends. In this paper we examine the administration's initiatives drawing upon recent scholarship in political science to consider the political, economic and institutional constraints that Obama has faced and to assess…
Formalizing and Testing Duverger's Theories on Political Parties
Maurice Duverger's Political Parties, written more than three decades ago, remains the most prominent source of hypotheses on parties and party systems. Although many years have passed since its publication, no one has formalized Duverger's main hypotheses on political parties and subjected them to empirical test. This article identifies Duverger's key concepts on party structure, links the concepts in 19 formal bivariate propositions, operationa…
The Conservatives and Training Policy 1979–1992: From a Tripartite to a Neoliberal Regime
Despite the growth in government spending upon training programmes under the Conservatives, this policy remains understudied in the literature on Thatcherism. To explain this policy the author identifies four, New Right-based, components of the Conservatives' training objectives: the weakening of trade unions and the apprenticeship system; linking the receipt of unemployment benefits with participation in training or work activity; advantaging em…
Required Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Reporting by US Health Centers: First-Year Data
Objectives. To assess the performance of US health centers during the first year of required sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data reporting and to estimate the baseline proportion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients accessing health centers. Methods. We conducted a secondary analysis of SOGI data from 2016. These data were reported by 1367 US health centers caring for 25 860 296 patients in the United States and terr…
Still a house divided: Race and politics in Obama's America
Social Democracy and Rational Workers
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The Last Stand: Shelby County v. Holder, White Political Power, and America’s Racial Policy Alliances
In 2013, the United States Supreme Court decidedShelby County v. Holder, which invalidated Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The ruling is part of longstanding efforts to maintain American institutions that have provided wide-ranging benefits to White citizens, including disproportionate political power. Over time, such efforts are likely to fail to prevent significant increases in political gains for African Americans, Latinos, and …
Challenging History: Barack Obama & American Racial Politics
Modern American racial politics remains sharply divided over racial policy issues, with coalitions of political activists, groups, and governing institutions aligned on opposing sides. A “color-blind” policy alliance urges government to act with as little regard to race as possible. A “race-conscious” alliance argues that policies should aim to reduce material racial inequalities and that race-targeted measures are often needed. These modern raci…
Democracy and the Capitalist State
Political Centralization and State Interests in Britain: The 1986 Abolition of the GLC and MCCs
This article addresses contemporary state theory by examining the role of state interests and the constraints upon state autonomy in recent central-metropolitan relations in Britain. The abolition of the Greater London Council and six Metropolitan County Councils in Britain in 1986 is analyzed by reference to liberal, Marxist, and statist propositions about state autonomy and state interests. Three versions of the statist perspective are delineat…
Institutional Choices and Labor Market Policy: A British-Swedish Comparison
Focusing on employment exchange systems, the authors explain how early labor market institutions established by British and Swedish governments affected the possibilities for subsequent policy. They demonstrate how the way in which labor exchanges were implemented in Britain and Sweden limited and facilitated, respectively, active labor market policy after 1945. The absence of institutional legitimacy in the legacy of the British labor exchange s…
Strange Bedfellows? Polarized Politics? The Quest for Racial Equity in Contemporary America
Some scholars see contemporary American politics as characterized by “strange bedfellows” on racial issues and by polarization driven by economic, not racial, views. The authors argue instead that on most issues with racial dimensions, political actors and institutions are aligned into two racial orders, one favoring “color-blind” policies and the other “race-conscious” measures. Coalitions on two issues—affirmative action in employment and major…
Economic change and labour market policy: Corporatist and dualist tendencies in britain and Sweden
This article explicates John Goldthorpe's recent analytical distinction between 'corporatist' and 'dualist' tendencies in Western political economies. By linking these categories to macro‐economic strategies, the role of trade unions and the circumstances under which state policy is initiated, this dichotomy can be of value in the analysis of these polities. The article examines the major characteristics of British and Swedish labour market polic…
Psychological Attempts to Change a Person’s Gender Identity From Transgender to Cisgender: Estimated Prevalence Across US States, 2015
Objectives. To examine exposure to psychological attempts to change a person’s gender identity from transgender to cisgender (PACGI) among transgender people in the United States, lifetime and between the years 2010 and 2015, by US state. Methods. We obtained data from the 2015 US Transgender Survey, a cross-sectional nonprobability sample of 27 716 transgender people in the United States, to estimate the percentage exposed to PACGI in each US st…
Working for Benefits: Rational Choice and the Rise of Work—Welfare Programmes
This paper develops a rational-choice explanation for the adoption of deterrent work–welfare programmes by recent governments in Britain and the US. Such programmes require the recipients of welfare or unemployment benefits to participate in a training programme or work activity in exchange for receiving their benefits and reflect a New Right (in contrast to a social democratic) conception of social citizenship. Governments design such policies t…
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Completeness at US Federally Qualified Health Centers, 2020 and 2021
Objectives. To assess the performance of US federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) after 6 years of required sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data reporting and update estimated proportions of sexual and gender minorities cared for at FQHCs. Methods. We conducted secondary analyses of data reported to the 2020 and 2021 Uniform Data System from 1297 FQHCs caring for nearly 30 000 000 patients annually. We used multivariable logist…
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection at US Health Centers: Impact of City-Level Structural Stigma in 2018
Objectives. To examine the relationship between city-level structural stigma pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) and completeness of patient SOGI data collection at US federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). Methods. We used the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index to quantify city-level structural stigma against sexual and gender minority people in 506 US cities across 49 states. We ascertained the complet…
Towards transitional justice? Black reparations and the end of mass incarceration
There are many commonalities between the goals of transitional justice and domestic redress movements. We look at the movement for reparations for enslavement and Jim Crow in the United States as an example of a domestic reparations movement, and argue for the usefulness of the concept of transitional justice. We are particularly interested in showing that a future democratic transition - the end of mass incarceration - could animate a renewed pu…
The New Right: Politics, Markets and Citizenship
The state and fiscal crisis in advanced industrial democracies
The Growth of Public Welfare Provision: Does Politics Matter
In their article – ‘Public Welfare Provision, Scandinavia, and the Sheer Futility of the Sociological Approach to Polities’ – Castles and McKinlay claim to have demonstrated thattwo factors contribute to and explain the particularly high levels of public welfare provision in Scandinavian countries [compared to other advanced, industrial democratic states]. The absence of a large right-wing party establishes the initial necessary condition that re…
Protestants in a Catholic State: Ireland's Privileged Minority, by Kurt Bowen
Formalizing and Testing Duverger's Theories on Political Parties
Maurice Duverger's Political Parties, written more than three decades ago, remains the most prominent source of hypotheses on parties and party systems. Although many years have passed since its publication, no one has formalized Duverger's main hypotheses on political parties and subjected them to empirical test. This article identifies Duverger's key concepts on party structure, links the concepts in 19 formal bivariate propositions, operationa…
The public sector growth and state autonomy in Western Europe: The changing role and scope of the state in Ireland since 1950
The expansion of the state in advanced industrial societies since 1945 has stimulated studies of the determinants of public sector growth, the nature of state intervention and the capacity for the state to act in a quasi‐autonomous way. The last also provides a means for distinguishing between alternative models of state action. In this article the issues of state expansion and state autonomy are used as the basis for examining the growth of the …
The New Right Politics, Markets and Citizenship
The State and the City
The State and the City presents a general theoretical argument about the nature, structure and interests of the state and traces the evolution of the Western state's interests in the viability of citi
Social Choice Theory
Federal Responses to Urban Fiscal Stress and Decline in the United States
This Note reports some findings from a larger study we are embarked upon. Our broader objective is to develop a general theory of the national state's interest in cities in advanced industrial societies. We argue that state officials generally pursue their own interests in the protection and expansion of state power and resources and specifically have interest in the viability of cities, interests that do not simply reflect the interests of priva…
The state and the social structures of welfare in advanced industrial democracies
The State and the City
Economic change and labour market policy: Corporatist and dualist tendencies in britain and Sweden
This article explicates John Goldthorpe's recent analytical distinction between 'corporatist' and 'dualist' tendencies in Western political economies. By linking these categories to macro‐economic strategies, the role of trade unions and the circumstances under which state policy is initiated, this dichotomy can be of value in the analysis of these polities. The article examines the major characteristics of British and Swedish labour market polic…
Citizenship, Social Citizenship and the Defence of Welfare Provision
This article analyses the normative status of claims to the social rights of citizenship in the light of New Right criticisms of the welfare state. The article assesses whether there is any normative justification for treating welfare provision and citizenship as intrinsically linked. After outlining T. H. Marshall's conception of citizenship the article reviews its status in relation to: traditional arguments about citizenship of the polity; rel…
The state and fiscal crisis in advanced industrial democracies
New Right Ideology, Welfare State Form, and Citizenship: A Comment on Conservative Capitalism
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City and Regime in the American Republic
Political Centralization and State Interests in Britain: The 1986 Abolition of the GLC and MCCs
This article addresses contemporary state theory by examining the role of state interests and the constraints upon state autonomy in recent central-metropolitan relations in Britain. The abolition of the Greater London Council and six Metropolitan County Councils in Britain in 1986 is analyzed by reference to liberal, Marxist, and statist propositions about state autonomy and state interests. Three versions of the statist perspective are delineat…
The New Right: Politics, Markets and Citizenship
Social Democracy and Rational Workers
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The Politics of Industrial Closure
Democracy and the Capitalist State
Flashpoints: Studies in Disorder.David Waddington , Karen Jones , Chas Critcher
Working for Benefits: Rational Choice and the Rise of Work—Welfare Programmes
This paper develops a rational-choice explanation for the adoption of deterrent work–welfare programmes by recent governments in Britain and the US. Such programmes require the recipients of welfare or unemployment benefits to participate in a training programme or work activity in exchange for receiving their benefits and reflect a New Right (in contrast to a social democratic) conception of social citizenship. Governments design such policies t…
The Conservatives and Training Policy 1979–1992: From a Tripartite to a Neoliberal Regime
Despite the growth in government spending upon training programmes under the Conservatives, this policy remains understudied in the literature on Thatcherism. To explain this policy the author identifies four, New Right-based, components of the Conservatives' training objectives: the weakening of trade unions and the apprenticeship system; linking the receipt of unemployment benefits with participation in training or work activity; advantaging em…
Institutional Choices and Labor Market Policy: A British-Swedish Comparison
Focusing on employment exchange systems, the authors explain how early labor market institutions established by British and Swedish governments affected the possibilities for subsequent policy. They demonstrate how the way in which labor exchanges were implemented in Britain and Sweden limited and facilitated, respectively, active labor market policy after 1945. The absence of institutional legitimacy in the legacy of the British labor exchange s…
Actively seeking work?: The politics of unemployment and welfare policy in the United States and Great Britain
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