Faculty
Peter J. May
Office: Smith 221B
(206) 543-9842
pmay@u.washington.edu
(Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley), professor, undertakes
research on public policy processes and environmental policy. May's
current research addresses various aspects of regulatory enforcement
and compliance for environmental regulations as part of studies
being undertaken in the United States with funding by the National
Science Foundation and in another study in collaboration with researchers
in Denmark. His prior research addressed the intergovernmental aspects
of environmental management, including research funded by the National
Science Foundation for a comparative study in Australia, New Zealand,
and the United States. This resulted in a series of journal articles
and two collaborative books, Environmental Management and Governance:
Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability (Routledge),
and Making Governments Plan: State Experiments in Managing Land
Use (Johns Hopkins). May's publications addressing public policy
processes have emphasized the political aspects of policy design,
including "Policy Learning and Failure" and "Reconsidering Policy
Design: Policies and Publics." His earlier research included two
books and a variety of articles addressing the political aspects
of disasters. May has served on boards of several policy associations,
on National Research Council panels, as a member of the policy analysis
staff of the U.S. Department of Interior, and as an advisor to several
governmental agencies. He was a recipient of a Fulbright senior
scholar grant for research in Australia in 1991 and was a visiting
scholar at the University of Aarhus, Denmark in 1998. May's graduate
teaching includes courses in public policy processes, environmental
policy and politics, bureaucratic politics, empirical methods and
research design, and American politics.
Web page: http://faculty.washington.edu/pmay
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