Jerold Duquette is a professor of political science and the director of the public policy and management program at Central Connecticut State University. He is the author of Regulating the National Pastime: Baseball and Antitrust and has published articles and book chapters on campaign finance reform, political parties, Massachusetts politics and political culture, public opinion, and political socialization. He is the co-editor of The Politics of Massachusetts Exceptionalism: Reputation Meets Reality, published in April 2022 by the University of Massachusetts Press. Professor Duquette teaches courses on public administration, public budgeting & finance, public policy analysis, public sector ethics, American national government, political parties and elections, public opinion, state and local government, and American political thought. He has also taught critical thinking & persuasive writing in the University’s Honors Program and has served as the faculty advisor to both the College Democrats and College Republicans at CCSU. He earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an M.P.A. from the Graduate School of Business & Public Management at The George Washington University, and a B.A. in politics from The Catholic University of America. Professor Duquette lives in Longmeadow, Massachusetts with his wife Kara, an attorney and a retired Lt. Col. in the U.S. Marine Corps, and their four children. He served as an elected member of Longmeadow’s School Committee from 2005 to 2008 and presently serves on the Longmeadow Historical and Park Commissions. He is a former elected member of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee and presently serves as an elected member of the Longmeadow Democratic Town Committee.
