Political Science Professor to Discuss New Book

Kathleen Hale, professor in the Department of Political Science, will discuss her new book, How Information matters: Networks and Public Policy, on Monday, November 7 at 3:00 pm in the Special Collections & Archives Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

How Information Matters examines the ways a network of state and local governments and nonprofit organizations can enhance the capacity for successful policy change by public administrators. Hale examines drug courts, programs that typify the highly networked, collaborative environment of public administrators today. In a study that spans more than two decades, Hale shows ways organizations within the network act to champion, challenge, and support policy innovations over time. How Information Matters offers valuable insight into successful ways for collaboration and capacity building.

Hale teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Intergovernmental Relations and Federalism, Nonprofit Management, and Nonprofit Law, as well as several graduate courses in the MPA Program. Before coming to Auburn, Kathleen served as senior research staff, legal counsel, and policy advisor to state and local government agencies and officials, and nonprofit organizations at the national, state and local level. She is a member of the Executive Council of the Nonprofit Section of NASPAA (2010-2013), and the 2011 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Community and Civic Engagement from the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts.

A reception will follow the program. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University Libraries, and the Auburn University Bookstore.