Dennis Hale (political scientist)

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Dennis Hale
Nationality	U.S.
Alma mater	Oberlin College; Brooklyn College; City University of New York Graduate Center
Employer	Boston College
Title	Associate Professor of Political Science

Dennis Hale is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College.

Eduction 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).

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 0878559396, and co-edited The nature of politics: Bertrand de Jouvenel, with Marc Landy, Transaction Publishers, 1992, ISBN 1560006072, 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.

He is a co-founder of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, along with Charles Jacobs and Islamic scholar Ahmed Subhy Mansour. 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.