Faculty and Staff - Taylor
G. Thomas Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Administration
Department Chairperson
Phone: 207 581- 1874
Fax: 207 581-3039
G. Thomas Taylor holds the rank of Professor in the Department of Public Administration. He has been a faculty member at the University of Maine since 1972.
Education
Professor Taylor received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado in 1973. He received his B.A. in 1967 and his M.A. in 1969 from the University of Virginia.
Teaching/Research
Research and teaching interests:
- Municipal government and local public management
- Urban and rural public policy
- Sub-state regionalism
- Community planning and development
- Community power and leadership
- Intergovernmental Relations
- Civil urban violence
Professor Taylor has served as a principal investigator with the Denver Urban Observatory, the Charles S. Mott Foundation, the New England Municipal Center, and the Urban Institute. He has contributed articles to such journals as Urban Affairs Quarterly, Teaching Political Science, Municipal Management, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Southern Review of Public Administration, National Civic Review, International Journal of Public Administration, and Maine Policy Review.
His research projects include recent chapters on urbanization, land use management, rural community government, a book on Maine state and local government, including issues of sustainable growth and sprawl, school districts and service delivery, and involvement in a fifty-state project on home rule in America. Other research interests include trends in town meetings, city and town managers and police.
Prior to coming to the University of Maine, Professor Taylor was a member of the faculties of Metropolitan State College of Denver and the Division of Continuing Education, University of Colorado.
Service
Professor Taylor has served the Town of Orono, Maine, as a member of the Planning Board, the Comprehensive Plan Committee, the Land Use Subcommittee, and the Orono Economic Development Committee. He has served the State of Maine as part of the Maine Intergovernmental Structure Task Force (second circle). He has served three terms as Department Chair.