Dark teaches courses covering such topics as political parties and interest groups, labor policy, and Congress and the presidency. He authored numerous articles on labor unions in American politics, and national electoral politics more generally (especially the Democratic party). He published The Unions and Democrats: An Enduring Alliance, with Cornell University Press, 2001. Dark received his M.Sc. in government from the London School of Economics and Political Science and his Ph.D. in political science from UC Berkeley.
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