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Associate Professor
Political Science Department
McGuinn Hall Room 518
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Telephone: 617-552-4165
Email: dennis.hale@bc.edu
American Political Thought
Counter-TerrorismÌý
Jihad Ideology
Jury System
Local Government & Politics
Presidential Primaries & Election
Modern States
Citizenship
Professor Dennis Hale’s areas of research and interest include local government, American political thought, modern citizenship, the American jury system, and American federalism. He has also been pursuing the challenge that modern jihadist ideology presents to American foreign policy and law enforcement. Hale is the author of theÌýThe Jury in America: Triumph and DeclineÌý(University Press of Kansas, 2016). His essays and reviews have appeared inÌýhe Political Science Quarterly, PS, Society, The Journal of Politics,ÌýtheÌýAmerican Political Science Review, State and Local Government Review, Polity, Administration and Society, The Political Science Reviewer, The Washington Post, andÌýNewsday.