Graham Dodds

Membre associé , Professeur à l'Université Concordia

Expertises

  • U.S. domestic politics
  • American Political Development
  • U.S. Presidency

Courriel

g.dodds@concordia.ca

Publications

Books:

  • Mass Pardons in America: Rebellion, Presidential Amnesty, and Reconciliation. Columbia University Press, 2021. 
  • The Unitary Presidency. Routledge, 2019. 
  • Take Up Your Pen: Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics. The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Select Articles:

  • “Presidential Control of Independent Agencies’ Leadership and Personnel: A Two-Case Study of Interbranch Contestation over the Bureaucracy and the Unitary Executive under Donald Trump.” Presidential Studies Quarterly.  Volume 52, Issue 1 (March, 2022).  p168-194
  • “‘This Was No Act of God’: Disaster, Causality, and Politics.” Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy.  Volume 6, Issue 1 (August, 2015), p44-68. 
  • “The Hope for Audacity: The Understated Unilateralism of President Obama.” The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics.  Volume 12, Issue 1.  (April, 2014.)  p141-168.    
  • “Crusade or Charade?: The Religious Right and the Culture Wars.” Canadian Review of American Studies.  42, No. 3.  (Fall, 2012.)  p274-300. 

Select Chapters:

  • “Trump and Canada: The 45th President as seen from North of the 49th” Chapter in Gregory S. Mahler, ed.  Foreign Perceptions of the United States under Donald Trump.  Lexington Books, 2021.  p13-26.
  • “The Ideological Character of George W. Bush.” Chapter in Bose, Meena, ed.  The George W. Bush Presidency.  Volume 1.  Nova Science Publishers, 2016.  p57-72. 
  • “The Culture Wars in the 2012 Election.” Chapter in Douglas M. Brattebo, et al, eds.  The Presidential Election of 2012: Culture, Rhetoric, and Voting.  University of Akron Press, 2016.  p68-91.

Other:

Conférences

  • “Presidential Control of Independent Agencies’ Leaders and Personnel.”  American Political Science Association.  Seattle, WA.  October 1, 2021.  (Conference held partly online due to virus pandemic.) 

  • “The Unitary Executive Theory and the Presidency of Donald J. Trump.”  American Political Science Association.  San Francisco, CA.  September 9, 2020.  (Conference held online due to pandemic.) 

  • Presenter, Discussion Leader.  “Talking about the Trump Presidency.”  Short Course on “Teaching and Talking about the Presidency in the Trump Era.”  American Political Science Association.  San Francisco, CA.  September 9, 2020.  (Conference held online due to pandemic.) 

  • “Donald Trump and the Unitary Executive Theory.”  Prairie Political Science Association.  Banff, AB.  September 15, 2019. 

  • Participant and Co-Chair.  Roundtable on “Teaching in the Trump Era.”  Prairie Political Science Association.  Banff, AB.  September 15, 2019. 

  • “Reassessing the Unitary Executive: A Scholarly Update for the Trump Era.”  American Political Science Association.  Washington, DC.  August 29, 2019.  

  • “Arguments for the Unitary Executive.”  Northeastern Political Science Association.  Montreal, QC.  November 8, 2018.

  • “The Unilateral and Unitary Presidencies.”  American Political Science Association.  Boston, MA.  September 1, 2018. 

  • “Reassessing the Unitary Executive.”  International Political Science Association.  Brisbane, Australia.  July 23, 2018. 

  • “Presidential Rhetoric, Unilateralism, and Political Reconciliation in the U.S. Civil War.”  Social Science History Association.  Montreal, QC.  November 2, 2017. 

Prix et distinctions
  • President’s Media Outreach Award in the category of Expert Commentator of the Year.  Concordia University.  2016-2017. 
  • Newsmaker of the Week.  University Communications Services, Concordia University.  Various weeks, 2014-2017, 2020.
  • Outstanding Teaching Award. Department of Political Science, Concordia University. 2006-2007.
  • Pi Sigma Alpha award for best overall conference paper, Northeastern Political Science Association. 2005.      
Enseignements
  • Dodds, Graham. Poli-202: Introduction to Political Science. Department of Political Science, Concordia University. Undergraduate.
  • Dodds, Graham. Poli-206: Introduction to Western Political Theory. Department of Political Science, Concordia University. Undergraduate.
  • Dodds, Graham. Poli-310: The Politics of the United States. Department of Political Science, Concordia University. Undergraduate.
  • Dodds, Graham. Poli-313: The U.S. Presidency. Department of Political Science, Concordia University. Undergraduate.
  • Dodds, Graham. Poli-401: American Political Thought. Department of Political Science, Concordia University. Undergraduate.
  • Dodds, Graham. Poli-487: Special Topics in U.S. Politics (e.g., Congress and the Legislative Process, American Political Development, Constitutional Law, Law & Society, etc.). Department of Political Science, Concordia University. Undergraduate.
  • Dodds, Graham. Poli-496: Causality and Development in Politics. Department of Political Science, Concordia University. Undergraduate.
  • Dodds, Graham. Poli-621: Political Leadership and Decision-Making. Department of Political Science, Concordia University. Graduate.
Interventions médiatiques
  • CTV Montreal.  January 10, 2022.  (Live; Re. anniversary of attack on US Capitol.)
  • CTV Montreal.  December 20, 2021.  (Live; Re. President Biden.)
  • CTV Montreal.  September 9, 2021.  (Live; Re. 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks.)
  • CTV Montreal.  August 23, 2021.  (Live; Re. U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.)
  • CTV Montreal.  May 3, 2021.  (re. Joe Biden’s first 100 days.)
  • CTV Montreal.  March 29, 2021.  (re. Joe Biden on immigration and gun control.)
  • CTV National.  February 23, 2021.  (re. Biden-Trudeau meeting.)
  • CTV Montreal.  January 27, 2021.  (re. Joe Biden’s first week in office.)
  • CTV Montreal.  January 19, 2021.  (re. Inauguration of Joe Biden.)
  • CTV Montreal.  January 7, 2021.  (re. attack on U.S Capitol.)

 

  • CHML radio. Hamilton, ON.  April 29, 2021.  (Live; Re. Joe’s Biden’s first 100 days.)
  • CFRA radio. Ottawa, ON.  March 1, 2021.  (Live; Re. Donald Trump’s CPAC speech.)
  • CHML radio. Hamilton, ON.  February 22, 2021.  (Live; Re. Biden and Trudeau’s meeting.)
  • CHML radio. Hamilton, ON.  February 10, 2021.  (Live; Re. impeachment of Donald Trump.)
  • CJAD radio. Montreal, QC.  January 30, 2021.  (Re. Joe Biden and Canada.)
  • CJAD radio. Montreal, QC.  January 21, 2021.  (Live; Re. Joe Biden’s inauguration.)
  • CFRA radio. Ottawa, ON.  January 21, 2021.  (Live; Re. Joe Biden’s inauguration.)
  • CHML radio. Hamilton, ON.  January 20, 2021.  (Live; Re. Joe Biden’s inauguration.)
  • CJAD radio. Montreal, QC.  January 14, 2021.  (Live; Re. impeachment of Donald Trump.)
  • CHML radio. Hamilton, ON.  January 13, 2021.  (Live; Re. attack on U.S. Capitol.)
  • CJAD radio. Montreal, QC.  January 10, 2021.  (Live; Re. attack on U.S. Capitol.)
  • CFRA radio. Ottawa, ON.  January 7, 2021.  (Live; Re. attack on U.S. Capitol.)
  • CHML radio. Hamilton, ON.  January 6, 2021.  (Live; Re. Georgia Senate elections.)
  • CFMJ radio.  Toronto, ON.  December 3, 2020.  (re. Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud.)

 

  •  Riopel, Alexis.  “La lettre du lanceur d’alerte révélé.”  Le Devoir.  September 27, 2019.