Nationality American Name Dennis Hale | Role Political scientist Employer Boston College | |
Alma mater Oberlin College; Brooklyn College; City University of New York Graduate Center Title Associate Professor of Political Science Education Oberlin College, Brooklyn College, Graduate Center, CUNY | ||
Dennis hale on debating the american jury
Dennis Hale (born c. 1944) is an American political scientist who is an associate professor of political science at Boston College.
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- Dennis hale on debating the american jury
- Education and teaching
- Writing and media
- Americans for Peace and Tolerance
- References
Education and teaching
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).
He has taught at Boston College since 1978, and was the department chair for eight years (1989–97).
Writing and media
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.
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, The New York Times, The Boston Phoenix, The New York Sun, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Concord Monitor.
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. 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." 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.