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 taught at Boston College since 1978, and worked as the department chair for eight years (1989–97). [1] Hale published essays on local government, American political thought, public administration, and the modern experience of citizenship. He 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]

Hale is the editor of The United States Congress, Transaction Publishers, 1983, ISBN   0-87855-939-6, and co-edited The nature of politics: Bertrand de Jouvenel, with Marc Landy, Transaction Publishers, 1992, ISBN   1-56000-607-2, and a number of other books.

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]

Bibliography

Author

The Jury in America: Triumph and Decline, 2016, ISBN   0-70062-200-4

Editor

The New Student Left (with Mitchell Cohen), Beacon Press, 1967

The California Dream (with Jonathan Eisen), The Macmillan Company, 1968

The United States Congress, Transaction Publishers, 1983, ISBN   0-87855-939-6

The Nature of Politics: Selected Essays of Bertrand de Jouvenel (with Marc Landy), Schocken Books, 1987, ISBN   0-80524-023-3

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  2. ↑ "Former Senate leader returns to campus – The Boston Globe". Boston.com. November 12, 2004. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
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