Hale, George E.

George E. Hale, Associate Professor of Political Science & Public Administration at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, teaches American Politics, public administration, American foreign policy, leadership, budgeting and decision-making, and organizational theory.

Dr. Hale’s thirty-year governmental career included eight years as Delaware’s secretary of administrative services for Governor Mike Castle and sixteen years as chief executive of the Baltimore County Revenue Authority. Earlier he served as a program analyst at the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, as a special assistant to the Regional Administrator of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as special assistant to Delaware Governor Pete DuPont and as assistant director of the Delaware Economic Development Office.

A former National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration Faculty Fellow, he earned a Ph. D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University after graduating from the University of Delaware. While a faculty member at the University of Delaware Professor Hale also co-authored of The Politics of Federal Grants published by Congressional Quarterly Press.

His recent articles on state governors include “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Republican Governors," in the Ripon Forum, "State Budgets, Governors and Their Influence Over Big-Picture Issues" in Administration and Society, and “The Issue That Will Not Go Away: Models of Public Policy Making and Four Decades of Republican Efforts to Privatize Pennsylvania’s State Liquor Monopoly” in Pennsylvania Politics and Policy. He also authored “Rebudgeting” in the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy and “Management Strategies and Budgetary Politics” in the Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy and Governance. Hale has also written about corruption in state government.

Professor Hale and his wife Lynn have three adult children ( a real estate executive, a teacher, and an actor) and reside in the Baltimore suburbs. He is a fan of the Baltimore Orioles and Ravens and the Memphis Grizzlies who enjoys reading about the Civil War Era in American History.

Ph. D. The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1975

M. A. University of Delaware, 1973.

B. A. University of Delaware. 1971.

Undergraduate:

POL 10 Introduction to American Politics
POL 115 Public Administration
POL 228 American Foreign Policy
POL 441 Managerial Leadership and Ethics

Graduate:
POL 441 Managerial Leadership and Ethics
POL 515 Principles and Problems of Public Administration
POL 518 Budgeting and Decision Making
POL 516 Administrative and Organization Theory,

Selected Publications:

Book: The Politics of Federal Grants (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1981).

Recent Articles:

"The Issue That Will No Go Away: Models of Public Policy Making and Four Decades of Republican Efforts to Privatize Pennsylvania's State Liquor Monopoly," in J. Wesley Leckrone and Michelle J. Atherton, eds. Pennsylvania Politics and Policy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), 130-160

"Management Strategies and Budgetary Politics" In Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, 2016

"Rebudgeting," In Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Policy, 2015.

"Let the Buyer Beware: Governors, Career Paths and Public Corruption in Ten States," Public Integrity, 17, 2, (2015), 131-141.

"The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Explaining the Persistence of Scandal in the Pennsylvania General Assembly," in Allison Dagnes and Mark Sachleben, eds. Scandal (New York; Bloomsbury Press, 2014), 155-177.

"State Budgets,Governors and Their Influence on Big-Picture Issues: A Case Study of Delaware Governor Pete du Pont 1977-1985," Administration and Society, 45, 2 (March 2013), 127-144.

“Three Strikes and You’re Out? Why Three Republican Governors Failed to Privatize Pennsylvania’s State Liquor Monopoly,” Commonwealth: A Journal of Pennsylvania Politics and Policy, 16, 1 (September 2013), 63-80

"Seven Habits of Highly Effective Republican Governors," Ripon Forum, 46, 3 (Summer 2012), 21-23.

Term	Days	Start Time	End Time	Room	Additional Information
Spring 2024	TH	9:30AM	11:00AM	OM306
Spring 2024	TH	4:30PM	5:00PM	OM306
Spring 2024	M	5:00PM	6:00PM	OM306	Zoom By appointment

Term	Days	Start Time	End Time	Course	Location
Spring 2024	TH	12:00PM	1:15PM	POL 10 020	OM22A
Spring 2024	TH	1:30PM	2:45PM	POL 10 030	OM22A
Spring 2024	TH	3:00PM	4:15PM	POL 228 010	OM22B
Spring 2024	H	6:00PM	8:50PM	POL 518 010	OM22B
Spring 2024				POL 101 990