Senior Lecturer in American Politics and Foreign Policy, Academic Director of the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Dr David Smith is jointly appointed between the United States Studies Centre and the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. Smith has a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. His book, Religious Persecution and Political Order in the United States, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015.
After Trump, what is the future of the Republican Party?
Feb 20, 2021 12:19 pm UTC| Politics
In the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, seven out of 50 Republican senators voted to convict the former president of inciting insurrection. This has raised more questions than it has answered about where the...
It's now Biden v Sanders as Super Tuesday narrows the field for the Democratic nomination
Mar 06, 2020 09:18 am UTC| Politics
Super Tuesday has continued Joe Bidens recovery from the brink of disaster. After a larger-than-expected win in South Carolina, Biden became the clear alternative to Bernie Sanders in the contest to be the Democratic...
Jan 29, 2020 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
While political parties in both Australia and Britain have recently moved towards leadership contests that give more say to ordinary party members, nothing matches the democratic scale of the American process to nominate...
America has never been truly isolationist, and Trump isn't either
Jan 29, 2017 23:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Donald Trump is often called an isolationist. Some commentators argue he has revived a dormant isolationist tradition that goes all the way back to the Revolution. His slogan America First, which featured prominently in...
In the rush for coronavirus information, unreviewed scientific papers are being publicized