IFIR


A Partnership of
The Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky
and
The Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy at Morehead State University
Michael Hail
Assistant Professor of Political Science

110I Bert Combs
Morehead, Kentucky 40351

Phone: (606) 783-5407
E-mail: m.hail@moreheadstate.edu
  

Biography:

Michael W. Hail is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Morehead State University and Director of Research at IRAPP. He also serves as Assistant to the Dean. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Delaware, his M.A. in government from EKU, and his A.B. in international economics and philosophy from Centre College. His dissertation was under the direction of Marian Lief Palley and examined cycles of federalism through longitudinal, comparative state case studies of federal rural economic development policy. Hail serves as Associate Editor of The Federalism Report, the publication of the federalism and intergovernmental relations section of the American Political Science Association. Hail was formerly the Director of Planning, Policy and Research at the University of Kentucky Center for Rural Development, and most recently served as Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Social Issues and Research Associate in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His principal research interests are in federalism and intergovernmental relations, economic development, public policy and program evaluation.

Recent Publications:

  • 2004 “Federalism and Government Reform: Assessing Government Performance and Economic Development Policy in Kentucky.” Cities Magazine, KY League of Cities. Winter 2004.
  • 2004 Chapter on “Federalism and the Nullification Crisis.” Encyclopedia of American Conspiracy Theories. London: ABC-CLIO Inc.
  • 2004 Chapter on “British Royal Family.” Encyclopedia of American Conspiracy Theories. London: ABC-CLIO Inc.
  • 2003 Economic Development Administration funded research report: Tri-State Data-An Economic Development Resource. Marshall University Press, June 2003.
  • 2001-2004 Associate Editor, The Federalism Report, Vol.24-27, Issues 1-4, the American Political Science Association, Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations section research newsletter.