John A. Altman, Ph.D.
Meet John A. Altman
I am a Professor of Political Science and a past Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at York College of Pennsylvania. I hold a B.A. in Political Science and a Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Tennessee. I started teaching at York College in 2000, having taught during the previous six years as a full-time faculty member at two other academic institutions. I teach undergraduate courses in the areas of American government, political institutions, and quantitative analysis; and I teach graduate courses in the Master of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) Program. My research interests focus on comparative state-level policy analysis.
Experience and Accomplishments
- B.A., Political Science
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1988) - M.P.A., Public Administration
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1990) - Ph.D., Political Science
The University of Tennessee (1997)
- American Government
- Introduction to Political Science
- Quantitative Analysis
- Congress and the Presidency
- Public Policy
- Comparative state policy analysis
- The politics of energy and environmental policy
- Studying determinants and effects of local government fragmentation
- Faculty Recognition Award, York College of Pennsylvania, 2013
- Opening Convocation Speaker, York College of Pennsylvania, August 2012
- Faculty Commencement Speaker, York College of Pennsylvania, 2003
- Faculty Recognition Award, York College of Pennsylvania, 2003
- Altman, John A., and Ed Petkus, Jr. 2013. “Toward a Stakeholder-Based Policy Process: An Application of the Social Marketing Perspective to Environmental Policy Development.” In Social Marketing, ed. R. Craig Lefebvre. Washington, DC: SAGE.
- Altman, John and Stan Buchanan. 2008. “Explaining State Variation in Emergency Medical Service Provision.” Illinois Political Science Review 12 (Spring): 11-25.
- Altman, John A. 2003. “The Articles and the Constitution: Similar in Nature, Different in Design.” Pennsylvania Legacies 3 (1): 20-21.