Michael T. Hartney

Michael T. Hartney is an associate professor of political science at Boston College and the Bruni Family Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Hartney’s work has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Perspectives on Politics and has garnered coverage in the Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.

Hartney teaches courses on the politics of education, environmental policy, interest groups, and state and local politics. He is also a research affiliate at Harvard University’s Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG), a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and, in 2020-21, a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell Hoover Institution National Fellow.

Prior to his academic career, Hartney worked as a policy analyst for the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices. At NGA, he provided policy analysis to governors on a wide range of K–12 school reform issues, from teacher and principal quality to high school redesign. Hartney holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Notre Dame and a bachelor’s degree, also in political science, from Vanderbilt University.