Faculty and Staff - Laverty
Edward B. Laverty, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Public Administration
Phone: 207 581-1876
Fax: 207 581-3039
Edward B. Laverty is an associate professor in the Department of Public Administration. He has been on the faculty since 1977.
Education
Professor Laverty received a Ph.D. in political science from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs at the State University of New York at Albany in 1980 and a Ph.D. from Neofit Rilski University in 1991. He earned his M.P.A. in 1972 and his B.A. in 1971 from the University of Maine.
Teaching/Research
Research and teaching interests:
- environmental policy and management
- sustainable economic development
- policy analysis and evaluation
- organization theory
- administrative law
- regulatory process
- bureaucratic politics
- administrative accountability and applied ethics
Professor Laverty has contributed manuscripts to professional publications including Education for Public Service, Environmental Management Journal, Municipal Management Journal, Public Administration Quarterly, Government Data Systems, International Journal of Public Administration, American Review of Canadian Studies, National Civic Review, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism.
He is co-author of a series of articles on the role of the United States Supreme Court in reshaping federalism regarding states’ rights. The first of the articles is slated to appear in Public Administration Review.
Service
Within academia, Professor Laverty has served as the founding President of the American University of Bulgaria, the founding Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, Assistant to the President of the University of Maine, and Director of Graduate Programs in Public Administration.
Professor Laverty has also been extensively involved in state and local government, serving as a member of the Maine Board of Environmental Protection, the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, and the Governor’s Advisory Committee on U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Independent Inspection f Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. He has served as Tax Assessor and Selectman in Medford, Maine.
He is currently a consultant to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, the Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services, and the Town of Orono, Maine.