Lobbying on Financial Regulations

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/business/28lobby.html?_r=1&hp

Special Journal Issue on Network Visualization

http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/issues/vizsymposium.html

The NRA Outside Its Issue Niche

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/us/politics/13nra.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=NRA&st=cse

Palin and the Midterms

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/us/politics/18palin.html?_r=1&hpw

4th Annual Political Networks Conference and Training, June 14-18, 2011

Please SAVE THE DATE on your calendar for the 4th Annual Political Networks Conference and Training to be held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 14-18, 2011.

The Conference and Training will be held at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and will be organized roughly as follows:

TRAINING June 14-16

June 14: Conceptual Introduction to Network Analysis (Beginner level)
June 15: Computer Applications in Network Analysis (R, Siena)
June 16: Specialized Topics in Network Analysis

CONFERENCE June 16-18

June 16, 5pm: Keynote Address and reception
June 17: First day of panels, plenary address, poster session
June 18: Second day of panels, plenary session, business meting

The Program Co-Chairs are Betsy Sinclair, University of Chicago and Meredith Rolfe, University of Oxford.

The following people are serving on the local host committee:

Michael T. Heaney, Chair
Philip B. K. Potter, Co-Chair
Robert J. Franzese, Jr.
Elisabeth R. Gerber
William G. Jacoby

More details will be forthcoming in the fall.

Sincerely,

Michael


Michael T. Heaney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies & Political Science
University of Michigan
722 Dennison Building
500 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1042

Cell phone: 202-236-3369
E-mail: mheaney@umich.edu
http://www.umich.edu/~mheaney/

Anger and the Tea Party

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/the-very-angry-tea-party/?src=me&ref=homepage

Issue Networks and the Social Forum

http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/policy-issue-networks-in-the-american-left/

A Network of Friends, Lovers, and Family

http://laphamsquarterly.org/visual/charts-graphs/?page=78

Peace Workshops at the Social Forum

http://unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=4140

Tea Party in Nevada

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/us/politics/10nevada.html?hp