Department of Political Science — Center for Social Research

CSR DIRECTORS
William P. McLean, Ph.D.
Dr. McLean’s research and teaching interests are public administration, regulatory policy, southern politics, and survey research. He has published articles in Public Administration Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, The American Review of Politics and other journals and books. His current research interests include regulatory permit processes, biotechnology regulation, race related issues (including environmental racism and contemporary southern attitudes).
For more information see Dr. McLean's vita.
Patrick A. Stewart, Ph.D.

Patrick A. Stewart, Associate Professor of Public Administration at Arkansas State University, took his Ph.D. in Politics and the Life Sciences from Northern Illinois University in 1998. During his matriculation, he worked as graduate research assistant at the Center for Agriculture in the Environment, where his experiences there inform his current teaching and research agendas. He teaches classes in Environmental Law and Administration, Environmental Policy, Policy Analysis and Evaluation, Techniques of Statistical Analysis and Decision Making. His research into land use policy, agricultural biotechnology policy, diffusion of innovations and decision-making have been published in books and such journals as Review of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Environmental Law and Practice, and Politics and the Life Sciences. He has been the Director of the Master of Public Administration program since the fall of 2000. He currently is assistant coach and player with ASU’s Division II rugby football team. His current research concerns the role of emotion in decision making, the effect of definition on public perceptions of and policy concerning agricultural biotechnology and media coverage of the 2000 Presidential campaign.
For more information see Dr. Stewart's vita