Political Science 教师

Michael Hartney joined the Boston College political science faculty in fall 2017. Professor Hartney’s main research 和 teaching interests include: state 和 local politics, interest groups, public policy. His scholarship has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, 和 Public Administration Review 和 has garnered coverage in the Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal.

In 2022, 大学 of Chicago Press published his first book: How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, Unions, American 教育. The book explains the rise of teachers unions to their current place of status 和 influence in the United States, detailing how state 和 local governments adopted policies that subsidized—和 in turn strengthened—the power of unions in education politics.

At Boston College, Hartney teaches courses on the politics of education, environmental policy, US state 和 local politics. He is also a research affiliate at Harvard 大学’s Program on 教育 Policy 和 Governance (PEPG),, in 2020-21, a national fellow at Stanford 大学’s Hoover Institution.  

Prior to academia, Hartney worked as a policy analyst for the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices. 在NGA, he provided policy analysis to governors on a wide range of K–12 school reform issues, from teacher 和 principal quality to high school redesign.  Hartney holds a Ph.D. in political science from the 大学 of Notre Dame 和 a bachelor’s degree, also in political science, from V和erbilt 大学.