David M. Hedge
Professor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1979
Email:dhedge@polisci.ufl.edu
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My research cuts across a number of areas in American politics and public policy, including state politics, legislative behavior, and bureaucratic politics. My current research is concentrated in four areas. Renee Johnson and I are looking at the impact of social capital on welfare reform in the American states. She and I, together with Jeff Gill, are also looking at presidential and congressional control of the federal bureaucracy during the Clinton administration. In addition, I am working with two of our graduate students, John Livanis and Mads Bondergard, on a study of regulatory federalism in the European Union. Finally, doctoral student David Conklin is working with me on my ongoing research on the quality of black legislative life. My research appears in several journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. In 1998, I published Governance and the Changing American States a(Westview Press) as part of Larry Dodd's series on Transforming American Politics.
