George Mason University

 

Darrene L. Hackler, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Government and Politics

Department of Public and International Affairs MSN 3F4

George Mason University

4400 University Drive

Fairfax, VA 22030-4444

Office: 703-993-1418

Fax: 703-993-1399

E-mail: dhackler@gmu.edu

 

 

Bio


Darrene L. Hackler is currently an associate professor at George Mason University in the Department of Public and International Affairs. She teaches domestic and comparative urban politics, economic development, policy analysis, research methods, and information technology policy. She is also the advisor of the Urban Suburban Studies minor.

Her research focuses on the political economy of cities as it relates to economic development through telecommunications infrastructure, the technology industry, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Her book, Cities in the Technology Economy (ME Sharpe 2006), examines the effects of technology industries and infrastructures on cities and the local policy actions required for effective responses to these challenges. 

She is currently working on grants and contracts from The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to examine entrepreneurship, women's business ownership, and innovation, and from the CGI Initiative for Collaborative Government to examine how federal, state, and local policy can utilize stimulus funds and take actions to go beyond recovery. She recently completed work for the CGI Initiative on current local economic development practices, for a coalition of state and local associations to analyze future transportation policy alternatives, and for the Small Business Administration that examined the connection between human capital and women’s business ownership. She was also part of the research team that designed an Information and Communication Technology Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for Orange County, California, under a grant from the Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.

She has work published in Public Administration Review, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Urban Technology, Canadian Journal of Regional Science, American Behavioral Scientist, Annals of Cases on Information Technology, Innovation Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy, and Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing of Geographies.

Her professional experience includes working as an analyst for a telecommunications industry analysis firm, a senior research associate with Claremont Information Technology Institute, and an independent telecommunications consultant to executive real estate developers of commercial real estate, resort communities and master-planned communities.

Dr. Hackler received her M.A. in public policy and Ph.D. in political science and economics from Claremont Graduate University in California, and a B.A. in political science and economics from the College of Idaho.


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Research, Publications & Presentations


Current Research

  1. Examination of the effect of geography and gender on the production of knowledge into economically useful innovations in new high-technology firms;
  2. Examination of  how federal, state, and local policy can utilize stimulus funds and take actions to go beyond recovery, particularly in the areas of broadband investment and technology-based economic development;
  3. Examination of economic development practices, including "onshoring" or low cost domestic sourcing as a viable economic development model for rural and second-tier metro areas;
  4. Analysis of the local political economy of cities in the new economy and the implications of geographical digital divide on the future livabilty of cities;
  5. Examination of new economy industrial location patterns vis-à-vis local economic development and telecommunications infrastructure;
  6. Development of a broadband metric and score card to assess regional information technology infrastructure and its role in regional economic development; and
  7. Analysis of information technology innovation in the non-profit sector.


Publications

Book

Hackler, Darrene. 2006. Cities in the Technology Economy. Cities and Contemporary Society Series, M.E. Sharpe.


Articles, Book Chapters, and Reports

Hackler, Darrene and Heike Mayer. 2008. “Diversity, Entrepreneurship and Urban Environment.” Journal of Urban Affairs 30(3): 273-307.

Hackler, Darrene. 2008. “Creating Jobs in America: Case Studies in Local Economic Development.” CGI Initiative for Collaborative Government. Available online: http://www.collaborativegov.org/downloads/Creating_Jobs_in_America.pdf. 


Hackler, Darrene, Ellen Harpel, and Heike Mayer. 2008. “Human Capital and Women Business Ownership.” SBAHQ-06-M-0481. Washington, DC: Office of Advocacy, Small Business Administration. Available online: http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs323tot.pdf

Mayer, Heike, Darrene Hackler, and Christiana McFarland. 2007. “Skills, Capital and Connections, too: A Regional Social Environment Perspective of Women Entrepreneurs” Canadian Journal of Regional Science 30(3): 411-434.


Hackler, Darrene and Gregory Saxton. 2007. “The Strategic Use of Information Technology by Nonprofit Organizations: Increasing Capacity and Untapped Potential.” Public Administration Review 67(3): 474-487.


Hackler, Darrene. 2007. “Local Economic Development and Information Economy Growth in Metropolitan Los Angeles,” Journal of Urban Technology 14(1): 51-76.

“The Information and Communcation Technology Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy: ICT CEDS for Orange County, California.” Study Team: J. Dominguez, T. Horan, D. Hackler, S. Chatterjee, W. Walrod, B. Hilton, W. Smith, and M. Brite. Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. Available at: http://www.wrjgroup.com/projects/ICTCEDSReport/ICTCEDS_2006.pdf


Brennan, Christiana, Darrene Hackler, and Christopher Hoene. 2005. “Demographic Change in Small Cities, 1990-2000.” Urban Affairs Review 40(3): 342-361.


Hackler, Darrene. 2005. “Internet and the City.” Encyclopedia of the City, edited by R. Caves. New York: Routledge.


Hackler, Darrene. 2004. “Information Technology Industry and Telecommunications: An Emprical Analysis of Cities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul and Phoenix Metropolitan Areas.” Journal of Urban Technology 11(3): 35-59.


Hackler, Darrene. 2003. “High-Tech Location in Five Metropolitan Areas.” Journal of Urban Affairs 25(5): 625-640.


Hackler, Darrene. 2003. “Pulling Glass for High-Tech Advantage: The Role of Telecommunications in Economic Development.” Urban Affairs Review 39(1): 59-86.


Hackler, Darrene. 2003. “Invisible Infrastructure and the City: The Role of Telecommunications in Economic Development.” American Behavioral Scientist 46(8): 1034-1055.


Hackler, Darrene. 2003. “Public Choice.” Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy. New York: Marcel Dekker.


Sacco, John and Darrene Hackler. 2002. “A Longitudinal Study of End User Information Technology Evolution: A View from a County Budgeting Office.” Annals of Cases on Information Technology Volume IV. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.


Hackler, Darrene. 2001. “Industrial Location in the Information Age.” In Innovation Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy eds. Maryann Feldman and Albert Link. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 259-288.


Hackler, Darrene. 2000. “Industrial Location in the Information Age: An Analysis of Information Technology Intensive Industry.” In Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing of Geographies eds. James O. Wheeler, Barney Warf, and Yuko Aoyama. New York: Routledge, 2000, pp. 200-218.



Recent Presentations and Conference Papers


“Human Capital and Women Business Ownership.” Presented with Ellen Harpel and Heike Mayer at the Urban Affairs Association, Baltimore, MD, April 2008.

“Community Broadband.” Presented at the National League of Cities' Congress of Cities, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 2007.


“Diversity, Entrepreneurship and Urban Environment.” Presented with Heike Mayer at the Urban Affairs Association, Seattle, WA, April 2007.


“Identifying Sources of Economic Growth.” Presented with Ellen Harpel, and Heike Mayer at the American Planning Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 2007. Article and Presentation.

"City Views on Municipal Broadband." Presented at the National League of Cities' Congress of Cities, Reno, Nevada, December 2006.


"Cities in the Technology Economy."  National City Network's City Experiences with Municipal Broadband, October 2006.


“Entrepreneurial Cities in the Technology Economy: An Examination of Technology Infrastructure Policies.” Presented at the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2006.


“Integrating Municipal Telecommunications with Local Economic Development,” presented at Municipal Broadband: Challenges, Opportunities and Effective Solutions (Law Seminars Conference), Orlando, Florida, March 2004.


“Local Development in the New Economy.” Presented at the Urban Affairs Association, Washington, DC, April 2004. 


“Local Government Competition in the New Economy.” Presented at the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2004.
 

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Course Syllabi


Graduate

PUAD 680 Managing Information Resources (Fall 2000), (Spring 2002), (Fall 2003), (Fall 2004), (Fall 2005), (Spring 2007)

PUAD 729 Technology and Economic Development (Spring 2005)

PUAD 741 Policy Analysis (Fall 2006), (Fall 2007), (Fall 2008), (Fall 2009)


PUAD 759 Issues in Local Government Administration (Spring 2009)

GOVT 500 Research Methods in Political Science (Fall 2009)


Undergraduate

GOVT 300 Research Methods and Analysis (Spring 2002), (Fall 2003), (Fall 2004), (Fall 2005)


GOVT 309 Government and Politics of Metro Areas (Spring 2004) , (Spring 2005), (Fall 2006), (Spring 2008), (Spring 2009)


GOVT 357 Urban Governance and Planning (Spring 2007)
 
GOVT 459 Information Decisions and Management in Government (Fall 2000)


GOVT 491 Honors (Fall 2007), (Fall 2008)


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Vita


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Last revised: August 2009