David M. Hart
Associate Professor

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Curriculum Vita

Academic Experience and Education
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, 2004-present.

Visiting Faculty, Great Issues Forum, Public Policy Program, Denver University, January 2002.

Associate Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1998-2004.

Assistant/Associate Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1994-2004.

Ph.D., Department of Political Science, M.I.T., February, 1995.

B.A. with University Honors, Science in Society Program, Wesleyan University, 1983.

Selected Publications
“The Politics of “Entrepreneurial” Economic Development Policy in the U.S. States,” Review of Policy Research 25(2):149-168(2008).

“Red, White, and ‘Big Blue’:   IBM and the Business-Government Interface in the U.S., 1956-2000," Enterprise and Society 8(1):1-34 (2007).

“From Brain Drain to Mutual Gain:  New Opportunities to Share the Benefits of High-Skill Migration,” Issues in Science and Technology, Fall, 2006, 53-62.

"Managing the Global Talent Pool:  Sovereignty, Treaty, and Intergovernmental Networks,"  Technology in Society 28(4):421-434 (2006).

“Bush-Kerry: More of the Change?" The Scientist (25 October 2004)

“Business Is Not an Interest Group:  On Companies in American National Politics,” Annual Review of Political Science 7:47-67 (2004).

The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy:  Governance, Start-Ups, and Growth in the Knowledge Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

"High-Tech Learns to Play the Washington Game," in Allan J. Cigler and Burdett Loomis, eds., Interest Group Politics, 6th ed. (CQ Press, 2002), 293-312.

“Antitrust and Technological Innovation in the U.S.:  Ideas, Institutions, Decisions, and Outcomes, 1890-2000,” Research Policy 30:923-936 (2001).

“Research, Innovation, and Politics,” Nature 407:561-562 (5 October 2000).

"Managing Technology Policy at the White House," in Lewis M. Branscomb and James H. Keller, eds., Investing in  Innovation (Cambridge:  MIT Press, 1998), pp. 438-461.

Forged Consensus: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the United States, 1921‑1953 (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1998).

Selected Working Papers and Work in Progress
“Accounting for Change in National Systems of Innovation” (forthcoming in Research Policy)

“Governing the Global Knowledge Economy”

“The Political Theory of the Firm.”

“The Social Context for High-Potential Entrepreneurship in the U.S.”

Selected Professional Service
Consultant, MacArthur Foundation, International Peace and Security Program, 2007-2008.

Chair, SPP Search Committee, 2006-present

Editorial Board, Science and Public Policy, 2004-present.

Faculty Advisor, Graduate Student Conference on Science and Technology Policy, 2004-present.

Member, Schattschneider Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 2006.

Chair, Don Price Award Committee, American Political Science Association, 2004-2005.