John A. Altman, Ph.D.

John Altman
Division/Department
School of the Arts, Communication and Global Studies
Professor of Political Science
Contact Information
Humanities Center, Room 104

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.