UPO 699
Morehead State University
Morehead, Kentucky 40351
Phone: (859) 351-9997
E-mail: m.hail@moreheadstate.edu
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Michael Hail
Assistant Professor of Political Science |
Biography:
Michael W. Hail is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Morehead State University and Director of the MPA program. He also serves as Interim Associate Dean of the School of Public Affairs in charge of IRAPP. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Delaware 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 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. Hail currently serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Political Science Association section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, and Past President and Executive Secretary of the Kentucky Political Science Association. His principal research interests are in federalism and intergovernmental relations, economic development, public policy, the American Founding Fathers and Western political philosophy.
Recent Publications:
- Hail, Michael W. “Bush’s New Nationalism: The Life and Death of New Federalism.” Book Chapter in Assessing the Bush Presidency. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.
- Hail, Michael W., Anika Cornelia Leithner, Paul Fabian Mullen, and William R. Wilkerson. “Program Assessment.” P.S. Political Science & Politics. July 2008 (XLI: 3), pp.613-614.
- Hail, Michael W. “Connecticut Federalism: A Restatement of Roger Sherman’s Political Thought.” CLIO. Washington, DC: APSA Section on History and Politics, Sum 2007.
- Hail, Michael W. “Seventeenth Amendment,” Encyclopedia of American Parties and Elections. Larry J. Sabato and Howard R. Ernst, Editors. New York: Facts On File, 2006, pp.427-428.
- Hail, Michael W. “Reagan’s New Federalism,” Federalism in America, Vol.2. Joseph R. Marbach Editor-in-Chief. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2005, pp.451-453.