Matthew Holden

Dr. Matthew Holden Jr. Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., is the Wepner Distinguished Professor in Political Science at the University of Illinois Springfield. 
Dr. Holden came to UIS from the University of Virginia where he is the Henry L. and Grace M. Doherty Professor Emeritus of Politics. In 2009-2015, he concentrated on exchange between contemporary political science and Lincoln studies. He continues new work on (a) energy policy, (b) politics, medicine, and health, (c) the politics of prosecution, and (d) regulatory policy and practice. His new writing and other work are focused on on "the practice of power," exclusion-and-inclusion in political systems, and "diplomatic" models in urban-metropolitan governmental systems. He is the author of five books including Continuity and Disruption (1996) and The Divisible Republic (1973) and more than forty papers in public administration/public policy, politics and law, ethnicity and race relations; urban politics; decision-making, American government; and methodology. He has served as past President of the American Political Science Association and President of the Policy Studies Organization. He served as Commissioner of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, 1975-1977 and Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 1977-1981.