Overview

Michael Hall is an Associate Professor at the Political Science department at 成人头条 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 成人头条 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鈥檚 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

Areas of Teaching Interest
  • International Relations
  • Political Economy
  • Foreign Policy
  • American Politics
Publications

鈥淭he Global Political Economy of Exchange Rates,鈥 to be published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia in 2020

 鈥淒emocratization in Latin America: Insights for the Arab States,鈥 International Journal of World Peace, Vol. 34, No. 2, June 2017 With Dinorah Azpuru

鈥淵es, Our 鈥淔lawed鈥 Democracy Just Got Downgraded.  Here鈥檚 Why.鈥 With Dinorah

Azpuru, in The Monkey Cage, Washington Post, February 23, 2017

 鈥淭he Global Political Economy of Exchange Rates,鈥 in the International Studies Compendium Project, ed. by Robert Denemark, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

 鈥淲hy Peg?: The Role of Capital Mobility and Financial Intermediation,鈥

International Review of Applied Economics, 2009

 鈥淭esting the Hollowing-Out Thesis,鈥 International Interactions, Vol. 34, Issue 2,

2008

 鈥淒emocracy and Floating Exchange Rates,鈥 International Political Science

Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, January 2008

 鈥淐oalition Formation and Models of Capitalism,鈥 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)

Working Papers

鈥淎re Some Regions Exceptions to the Conditions Behind Democracy?,鈥 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

 鈥淔orecasting the Electoral College,鈥 with Olivia Babin, to be submitted summer 2020. 

 鈥淚deological Polarization and Retrospective Economic Voting,鈥 to be submitted to American Political Research in fall 2020.

Awards and Honors

John R. Barrier Distinguished Teaching Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences