Overview
Michael Hall is an Associate Professor at the Political Science department at Wichita
State
University. Prof. Hall specializes in international relations. He is the author of
Exchange Rate
Crises in Developing Countries: The Political Role of the Banking Sector, and articles
on the
politics of the economy and (with Dinorah Azpuru) on democratization. Prof. Hall teaches
courses in International Relations, International Political Economy, U.S. Foreign
Policy,
European Politics, and others. He is a member of the International Studies Association
and the
Midwest Political Science Association.
In 2019, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wichita State University awarded
Prof. Hall
the John R. Barrier Distinguished Teaching Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
This
award is given once a year and recognized Prof. Hall’s work in developing teaching
simulations
and commitment to students.
Prof. Hall earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at
Santa Barbara
in 2002. He earned a Master of Public and International Affairs from the University
of
Pittsburgh in 1993.
Information
- International Relations
- Political Economy
- Foreign Policy
- American Politics
“The Global Political Economy of Exchange Rates,” to be published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia in 2020
“Democratization in Latin America: Insights for the Arab States,” International Journal of World Peace, Vol. 34, No. 2, June 2017 With Dinorah Azpuru
“Yes, Our “Flawed” Democracy Just Got Downgraded. Here’s Why.” With Dinorah
Azpuru, in The Monkey Cage, Washington Post, February 23, 2017
“The Global Political Economy of Exchange Rates,” in the International Studies Compendium Project, ed. by Robert Denemark, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
“Why Peg?: The Role of Capital Mobility and Financial Intermediation,”
International Review of Applied Economics, 2009
“Testing the Hollowing-Out Thesis,” International Interactions, Vol. 34, Issue 2,
2008
“Democracy and Floating Exchange Rates,” International Political Science
Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, January 2008
“Coalition Formation and Models of Capitalism,” Business and Politics, Vol. 8,
Issue 3, December 2006
Exchange Rate Crises in Developing Countries: The Political Role of the Banking
Sector, December 2005, (London: Ashgate Publishing)
“Are Some Regions Exceptions to the Conditions Behind Democracy?,” with Dinorah Azpuru, Dominik Lett, and Shelby Rowell, originally to be presented to the Midwestern Political Science Association Conference, in Chicago, IL April 17, 2020
“Forecasting the Electoral College,” with Olivia Babin, to be submitted summer 2020.
“Ideological Polarization and Retrospective Economic Voting,” to be submitted to American Political Research in fall 2020.
John R. Barrier Distinguished Teaching Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences