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Assistant Professor (by courtesy)

• Affiliation(s)

  • Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies

• Fields of Study

  • American Government and Politics
  • Organizational Theory
  • Public Policy and Administration
  • Methods

• About

  Michael Heaney examines the organizational dimensions of American politics. His research focuses on the role of intermediary institutions -- especially interest groups, political parties, and social movements -- in shaping the political process and policy outcomes. How do these institutions build support, grow over time, and co-evolve with one another? Michael pays particular attention to social network structures in providing answers to these questions. He is engaged in a variety of projects along these lines, including studies of health care lobbying, the contemporary American antiwar movement, the behavior of national convention delegates, and the emergence of the Chicago School of Political Science.

  Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Michigan, Michael received a Ph.D. in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Chicago in 2004. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University in 2004-2005. From 2005-2009 he was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. In 2007-2008, Michael was the William A. Steiger Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association, during which time he worked on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce under Chairman John D. Dingell.

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  Selected Publications

  • ''The Partisan Dynamics of Contention: Demobilization of the Antiwar 
    Movement in the United States, 2007-2009.'' Mobilization (with Fabio 
    Rojas, March 2011).
  • "Organizing Women as Women: Hybridity and Grassroots Collective Action in the 21st Century," Perspectives on Politics (with Kristin A. Goss, March 2010)
  • "Social Networks and American Politics," American Politics Research (with Scott D. McClurg, September 2009)
  • "Coalition Dissolution, Mobilization, and Network Dynamics in the American Antiwar Movement," Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (with Fabio Rojas, 2008)
  • "The Chicago School that Never Was," PS: Political Science and Politics (October 2007)
  • "Partisans, Nonpartisans, and the Antiwar Movement in the United States," American Politics Research (with Fabio Rojas, 2007)
  • "The Place of Framing: Multiple Audiences and Antiwar Protests near Fort Bragg," Qualitative Sociology (with Fabio Rojas, December 2006)
  • "Building the Chicago School," American Political Science Review (with John Mark Hansen, November 2006)
  • "Brokering Health Policy: Coalitions, Parties, and Interest Group Influence," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (October 2006)
  • "Outside the Issue Niche: The Multidimensionality of Interest Group Identity," American Politics Research (November 2004)
  • "Issue Networks, Information, and Interest Group Alliances," State Politics and Policy Quarterly (Fall 2004)

• Education

  • Ph.D. in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Chicago (2004), Postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University (2004-2005),