Fields: Public Policy, Public Administration, Education Policy, American Politics 

Recent Publications: 

"Racial Diversity, Representative Bureaucracy, and Equity in Multiracial School Districts." (with Rene R. Rocha). Forthcoming. Social Science Quarterly. 

"Ethnic Conflict in France: A Case for Representative Bureaucracy?" (with Kenneth J. Meier). 2008. American Review of Public Administration.

"The Linkages between Active and Passive Bureaucratic Representation: An Application to the French Case."(with Kenneth J. Meier). 2006. Revue française d'Administration publique No. 118: 265-280. 

"The Role of Management and Representation in Improving Performance of Disadvantaged Students: An Application of the Bum Phillips' ‘Don Shula Rule.'" (with Kenneth J. Meier, Carl Doerfler, Alisa Hicklin, and Rene Rocha). 2006. Review of Policy Research 23(5): 1095-1110. 

Daniel Hawes earned his Ph.D. in political science from Texas A&M University in August of 2008. Dr. Hawes has an active research agenda focusing on the interaction between political and bureaucratic institutions that spans public administration, public policy, and political science. His research agenda centers on studying the role public management plays in influencing public policy outcomes and the extent to which elected institutions and environmental factors moderate this relationship. Additionally, he is interested in the organizational, contextual and political variables that act as constraints and catalysts for political influence of public policy outcomes. 

Dr. Hawes also has substantive interests in education and higher education policy, as well as issues of diversity and minority representation. This is a relatively understudied area, and there is little existing empirical or theoretical research on how public managers influence diversity. Some of his work aims to fill this gap by studying the determinants of minority representation among universities' faculties, with particular emphasis on the role of university administrators. He also examine state-level influences, such as state-legislative representation and governance structures, as well as university-level factors that may influence a university's ability to recruit, hire and retain minority faculty. 

Professor Hawes is also working on a project that examines social capital and racial policy equity in the United States. This project tests competing explanations of equity in education, health and criminal justice policy outcomes. For this project Daniel and his coauthors created a unique multiyear, state-level panel dataset that allows them to examine several competing hypotheses regarding the determinants of policy inequities. This project is expected to result in a book and has already produced a paper that won the Lucius Barker Award for best paper on race and ethnicity at the Midwest Political Science Annual Conference for 2006. 

Dr. Hawes has taught courses in research methods, public administration and public policy at the undergraduate level. He is also teaching graduate courses in research methods and public policy at Kent State University. 

e-mail:  dhawes2@kent.edu