Dennis Hale (political scientist)

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Dennis Hale
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Oberlin College; Brooklyn College; City University of New York Graduate Center
Employer Boston College
TitleProfessor of Political Science

Dennis Hale (born c. 1944) is an American political scientist who works as a professor of political science at Boston College.

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Education

Hale has a B.A. from Oberlin College (1966), an M.A. from Brooklyn College (1969), and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center (1977).

Career

Hale has taught at Boston College since 1978, and worked as the department chair for eight years (1989–97). [1] Hale has published essays on local government, American political thought, public administration, and the modern experience of citizenship. He has co-edited two volumes of essays by French political scientist Bertrand de Jouvenel, and is completing a book on democracy and the jury system. Hale's essays and reviews have appeared in the Political Science Quarterly , PS , Society , The Journal of Politics , Polity , APSR , State and Local Government Review, Administration and Society, The Political Science Reviewer, The Washington Post , and Newsday . [1]

He has often been quoted by the media on his areas of expertise, including by The Boston Globe , [2] [3] [4] The New York Times , [5] The Boston Phoenix , [6] The New York Sun , [7] [8] The Christian Science Monitor , [9] and The Concord Monitor . [10]

Americans for Peace and Tolerance

He is a co-founder of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, along with Charles Jacobs and Islamic scholar Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour. [11] It states its purpose as "promote peaceful coexistence in an ethnically diverse America by educating the American public about the need for a moderate political leadership that supports tolerance and core American values in communities across the nation." [12] The group is a primary critic of the $15.6 million mosque in Roxbury Crossing, which the group asserts is led by extremist leaders and contributors. [13] [14]

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  7. ↑ "A Bishop's Voice". The New York Sun. July 21, 2006. Archived from the original on August 13, 2006. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
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  12. ↑ "Mission and About Us". Americans for Peace and Tolerance. November 20, 2008. Archived from the original on March 20, 2022. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
  13. ↑ Paulson, Michael (June 26, 2009). "Muslim community to celebrate mosque's ceremonial opening". Boston.com. The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on June 29, 2009. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
  14. ↑ "Boston area Jews split on Tamir. Russian emigrants demand Israeli envoy's recall, while mainstream groups support him". Jerusalem Post. August 11, 2009. Archived from the original on January 3, 2013. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
  15. ↑ Hale, Dennis (2016-02-03). The Jury in America: Triumph and Decline. University Press of Kansas.
  16. ↑ Smith, Sean (April 2024). "Keeping the Republic". Boston College. Retrieved 2024-05-24.
  17. ↑ Hale, Dennis; Landy, Marc (2024-04-04). Keeping the Republic: A Defense of American Constitutionalism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN   978-0-7006-3623-5.
  18. ↑ Cohen, Mitchell, ed. (1966-01-01). The New Student Left: an anthology (First ed.). Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN   978-0-8070-0585-9.[ better source needed ]
  19. ↑ Hale, Dennis; Eisen, Jonathan (1968-01-01). The California Dream (First ed.). The Macmillan Company.[ better source needed ]
  20. ↑ Hale, Dennis, ed. (1983-01-30). The United States Congress (1st ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Routledge. ISBN   978-0-87855-939-8.
  21. ↑ Landy, Mark; Hale, Dennis, eds. (2019-11-14). The Nature of Politics (2nd ed.). Routledge.[ better source needed ]
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