David Glick

Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, Dartmouth College

 

David Glick

Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Manager: Policy Research Shop

Rockefeller Center for Public Policy

Dartmouth College

6082 Rockefeller Hall

Hanover, NH 03755

 

Office: 121b Silsby Hall

603-646-9607

David.M.Glick@Dartmouth.edu

 

 

About me:

             I am a visiting assistant professor and manager of the policy research shop at the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College.  I will be teaching an undergraduate seminar about the interactions of law and public policy in education, and advising applied public policy analysis projects. Before Dartmouth, I was a Ph.D. student in the Politics Department at Princeton University. My primary research and teaching interests include political institutions, learning and decision making, law, public policy, regulation, and education.        

             My dissertation project (abstract, final draft) incorporates many of these interests. It uses a formal model of learning and policy making, survey data, and interviews to analyze how those affected by legal changes (e.g. business, universities, hospitals) decide how to respond to them. I argue that doing so helps us understand how legal changes shape social and policy outcomes. While the theory is general, the empirical work concerns how colleges and universities respond to legal issues such as affirmative action and student privacy. My dissertation advisors are Keith Whittington, David Lewis, Nolan McCarty. In addition to my dissertation I have written about strategic Supreme Court behavior during the New Deal (Journal of Politics, July 2009). I am also trying to start papers about 1) learning in executive compensation reporting and 2) peer effects in higher education. 

             I grew up near Boston. Before coming to graduate school at Princeton I was an undergraduate at Williams College and worked in Cambridge for two years as a strategy consultant with the Monitor Group. I spent last year visiting at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC Berkeley.  I spend much of my free time staying active, often with my dog Zoe. I play, and follow, just about every sport imaginable. I  play basketball, soccer, and softball, and I ski and ride my bike whenever I can.