Faculty and Staff
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.
