Michael E. Kraft

Michael E. Kraft is Professor Emeritus, Political Science and Public Affairs, and Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is the author of Environmental Policy and Politics (Routledge, 8th ed. July 2021), co-author of Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives (CQ Press, 8th edition, released in January 2024), and co-author of Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press 2011). In addition, he is co-editor of Environmental Policy (CQ Press, 12th ed., January 2024), with Barry G. Rabe and Norman J. Vig; Business and Environmental Policy (MIT Press, 2007) and The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy (Oxford University Press, 2013), with Sheldon Kamieniecki; and Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy (MIT Press, 2nd ed., 2009), with Daniel A. Mazmanian. For more than forty-five years, he taught courses in environmental policy and politics, public policy analysis, American government, and Congress, primarily at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and also at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oberlin College, Vassar College, and Yale University. Most recently, he taught in the online Masters in Sustainable Management program of the University of Wisconsin System.