Political Scientist, University of Glasgow
Last week, Party in the Street was the subject of two blog posts by Bryan Caplan at the Library of Economics and Liberty. See:
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/07/party_in_the_st.html
and
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/07/whats_wrong_wit_19.html
I was quoted in a recent article about whether or not the Copyright Office is likely to become an independent agency. See:
http://fedscoop.com/could-copyright-become-an-independent-agency-maybe
Please join me next week (May 8-9) for a conference at the University of Michigan on “The Role of Special Interests in American Politics”. The conference is co-organized by Rick Hall, Geoff Lorenz, and myself. It is free and open to the public. The event page is here:
Presenters include Frank Baumgartner, Rachel Best, Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Daniel Carpenter, John de Figueiredo, Lee Drutman, Matt Grossmann, Beth Leech, Corrine McConnaughy, Rob Mickey, Mark Mizruchi, Brian Richter, Kay Schlozman, Robert Van Houweling, Edward Walker, and Susan Webb Yackee.
One of the teams from my OS203 Activism course was covered in a story that aired Friday on Michigan Public Radio. Read the story here:
http://michiganradio.org/post/student-group-protests-racy-ads
In addition to the public radio story, here are a couple of other resources about he team’s work:
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/424156451079931/
YouTube Video #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSsuOx2TNAQ
YouTube Video #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAYmXr6R_Kc
I was interviewed by David Goodman on the Vermont Conversation talking about Party in the Street. Listen here:
http://vermontconversation.com/2015/04/09/did-electing-obama-undermine-progressive-causes/
Party in the Street received a critical review today from Robin Hanson. Read it here: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2015/04/party-in-the-street.html#disqus_thread
Party in the Street made the list of new scholarly books this week at the Chronicle of Higher Education. See: http://chronicle.com/article/Weekly-Book-List-March-27/228679/
Thanks to Bill Ayers for his kind words about Party in the Street in Publisher’s Weekly. See:
Here I am on Talk Nation Radio discussing Party in the Street, my new book co-authored with Fabio Rojas. Thanks many times over to David Swanson for organizing and conducting the interview. I enjoyed the conversation. Listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-michael-heaney-on-what-partisanship-does-to-a-peace-movement/