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 du Pont and as assistant director of the Delaware Economic Development Office. Over the course of Professor Hale's governmental career, he developed expertise in public finance, budgeting, construction management economic development and procurement and repeatedly turning around underperforming public organizations

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,

Book:

The Politics of Federal Grants (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1981) with Marian L. Palley

Articles:

“What’s the Matter with Pennsylvania: Keystone State Politics in a Comparative Perspective,” in J. Wesley Leckrone and Michelle J. Atherton, eds. Pennsylvania Politics and Policy: A Commonwealth Reader, Volume III (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, forthcoming).

“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 J. Wesley Leckrone and Michelle J. Atherton, eds. Pennsylvania Politics and Policy: A Commonwealth Reader, Volume 1 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), 139-160

“Management Strategies and Budgetary Politics,” In Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy and Governance, Springer International Publishing: Switzerland, Published online: 2016, 1-7

“Rebudgeting,” In Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Third Edition. Taylor and Francis: New York, 2015, 328-333

“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! An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Consequences, Outcomes and Significance of Political Scandals (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014), 155-177

“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

“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

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

“The Politics of Budget Execution,” in Fremont J. Lyden and Ernest G. Miller, eds. Public Budgeting: Program Planning and Implementation (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 1982), 305-312, with Scott R. Douglass

“Federal Courts and the State Budgetary Process,” Administration and Society 11, 3 (November 1979), 357-368

“Federal Grants to the States,” Administration and Society 11,1 (May 1979), 3-26, with Marian L. Palley

“The Impact of Federal Grants on the State Budget Process,” National Civic Review, 67, 10 (November 1978), 461-473, with Marian L. Palley

“Zero-Base Budgeting,” Policy Studies Journal, 6 (Winter 1978), 263-265

“The Politics of Budget Execution: Financial Manipulation in State and Local Government,” Administration and Society 9, 3 (November 1977), 367-377, with Scott R. Douglass

“Executive Leadership versus Budgetary Behavior,” Administration and Society 9, 2 (August 1977), 169-190

“State Budget Execution: The Legislature’s Role,” National Civic Review, 66, 6 (June 1977), 284-290

“Liquid Waste and Local Politics,” in R. T. Golembiewski and M. J. White, eds. Cases in Public Management (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1976), 125-129

“The Political Implications of American National Manpower Policy,” American Behavioral Scientist 17, 4 (March/April 1974), 555-571