Benjamin Waldman is a PhD student in the Department of Government. His research is broadly concerned with American political development, focusing on the growth of the administrative state from Reconstruction through the present. He uses archival methods and network analysis to understand how state-building experiments have shaped the contours of presidential power and redrawn lines of political accountability. Before starting his PhD, he worked at the Brennan Center for Justice as a researcher specializing in presidential emergency powers. Benjamin graduated from Yale University with majors in political science and mathematics and from the University of Cambridge with a master’s in American history.
Contact
bwaldman@g.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street,
CGIS Knafel Building
Subfields
Political Thought and Its History | American Politics
Academic Interests
Bureaucracy | Democracy | Institutions | Judiciary & Public Law | Legislatures | Modern & Contemporary Political Thought | Political Economy & Development | Race & Ethnicity | Social Policy & the Welfare State
Research Methods
Formal Theory | Historical Methods | Normative Political Thought | Qualitative Methods
Geographic Regions of Study
United States