Dr Niall Palmer
Senior Lecturer in American Politics

Research area(s)

• US presidency
• US elections
• US party politics & ideology
• US political history

Research Interests

My research interests centre primarily upon American political history, though my research, writing and media commentary also includes modern US politics and political issues. I have published historical studies of the Harding and Coolidge administrations and of US politics and society in the 1920s. Latest research analyses expansion and change in the powers and scope of executive authority during the early 1920s. I have also published work on (and contributed to radio commentaries on) contemporary US political and electoral issues and events.

Project details

Current Projects:

Book: Dark Horse: The Lost Presidency of Warren Harding (Kansas University Press, forthcoming 2021).

Completed:

Article: "No Man is Big Enough: President Harding's Defence of the Proto-Modern Executive." Presidential Studies Quarterly (Forthcoming, March 2021).

Chapter: "Blue Dawn?" Chapter on C2st New Hampshire state and national election trends in David Schultz and Stacey Hunter Hecht (eds) Swing State Politics and Presidential Elections (2015).

Article: "More Than A Passive Interest:The Harding Administration and the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill."Journal of American Studies. Vol. 48. No.2. (2014).

Book: Calvin Coolidge: Conservative Icon. New York: Nova Publishers.2014.

Chapter: “Tenure Reform and Presidential Power: The Single Six-Year Term Proposal”. in Iwan Morgan (ed) Broken Government? American Politics in the Obama Era. ISA-Brookings Institute. 2012.

Book: US Diplomacy: World War I Through World War II. (Co-authored project with Dr Martin H. Folly). Scarecrow Press. 2010.

Article: "The Veterans’ Bonus and the Evolving Presidency of Warren G. Harding." Presidential Studies Quarterly. Vol.38. No.1. March 2008