Please join us this Wednesday, December 3 at 12:30-2pm in the Walker Room (5664 Haven Hall) for the next installment of The Networks Network. The presentation will be by Paige Fischer, Assistant Professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. Paige will speak on “Methods for Investigating Capacity to Adapt to Environmental Change in a Governance Network.” I think that Paige’s talk will be of special interest to people who wish to learn about collecting network data in field settings.
Party in the Street is available for pre-order
My forthcoming book with Fabio Rojas, Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11, is now available for pre-order. It can be purchased from Cambridge University Press or Amazon.com.
Mediating Religion and Government
Congratulations to Elizabeth Oldmixon and Kevin R. den Dulk, whose co-edited book, Mediating Religion and Government, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillian. I had the honor of co-writing one of the chapters with Elizabeth, which is titled, “Political Rhetoric and Institutional Structures:
Religious Advocacy in the US Congress”. It is available for purchase here: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/mediating-religion-and-government-kevin-r-den-dulk/?isb=9781137394408. My contribution is available here: http://michaeltheaney.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Heaney_and_Oldmixon_2014.pdf
No Meeting of the Networks Network on November 19 or 26
There will be no meeting of the Networks Network on November 19. Instead, students are strongly encouraged to attend the subfield luncheon most relevant to them.
Likewise, we will not meet on November 26 due to the Thanksgiving break.
The Networks Network — Wed., Nov. 12, 12:30pm-2pm — Scott Kalafatis
Scott Kalafatis presented “Network Location and Policy-Oriented Behavior: An Analysis of Two-Mode Networks of Coauthored Documents Concerning Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region” to the Networks Network on Wednesday, November 12, 12:30pm-2pm in the Walker Room. This article was previously published in August 2012 in the Policy Studies Journal 40(3): 492–515, co-authored with Ken Frank, I-Chien Chen, Youngmi Lee,Tingqiao Chen, Yun-Jia Lo, and Maria Carmen Lemos.
Commentary on Midterm Elections
This morning, I was interviewed on CBC Windsor Morning radio about the Republican victories in yesterday’s midterm elections. Here is a link to the audio, which is about 6 minutes: http://www.cbc.ca/windsormorning/episodes/2014/11/05/us-midterm-elections/
In a related story, I was quoted by AFP: http://news.yahoo.com/us-republicans-eye-senate-control-close-midterm-vote-203204347.html;_ylt=AwrBEiShkllUSFwA2gfQtDMD
In another related story, I was quoted by Al-Jazeera: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/11/7/tuesday-s-electionwavebuoysscuttlespresidentialdreams.html
The Networks Network — Wed., Nov. 5, 12:30pm-2pm — Zachary O’Keeffe
Zachary O’Keeffe will present “Connecting the Candidates: Consultant Networks and the Diffusion of Campaign Strategy in American Congressional Elections” today at 12:30pm-2pm to The Networks Network. This article forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science (by Brendan Nyhan and Jacob M. Montgomery). The workshop will meet, as usual, in the Walker Room.
No Meeting of the Networks Network this Week
The Networks Network will not meet this week. Instead, everyone is encouraged to attend Maggie Penn’s talk in the Eldersveld Room on Wednesday at noon.
Quoted by MSNBC
Today I am quoted on MSNBC’s web site in a story about the Michigan governor’s election.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/snyder-once-trouble-track-keep-running-michigan
The Networks Network — Wed., Oct. 22, 12:30pm-2pm — Cali Ellis
Tomorrow, Cali Ellis will present, “Trust and Communication in Cross-Border Counterterrorism Networks” to The Networks Network on Wednesday, October 22 at 12:30pm-2pm, in the Walker Room (5664 Haven Hall).