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Curriculum Vita

Brian J. Fogarty
Department of Political Science
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265
fogarty@email.unc.edu

Degrees
Ph.D. in Political Science, expected Spring 2005, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

Dissertation: The Process Revealed: News Media, Legislators and Constituents Connections, Interactions and Communications.
Committee: Michael MacKuen (chair), Michael Ting, George Rabinowitz, Marco Steenbergen and John Aldrich
Synopsis: I examine the effects of strategic behavior by the news media on legislators’ activities in office, on the campaign trail, and in electoral outcomes. Building on a series of game-theoretic models, I construct empirical hypotheses and test them with content analysis data on local media coverage of House members in both ideologically congruent and incongruent districts. In an extension of this work, I explore the consequences of media scrutiny on the electoral success of these House members.

M.A. in Political Science, Spring 2001, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

B.A. in Political Science and History (Medieval Studies minor), Spring 1999, SUNY - Geneseo.

Additional Training
Coursework in Game Theory and Advanced Empirical Methods, Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Fellowship, Columbia University, 2003-2004.

Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Summer Institute, CBRSS, Harvard University, Summer 2002.

Research & Teaching Interests
American Politics: Political Communication, Congress, Voting and Political Psychology.
Political Methodology: Game Theory, Social Choice Theory, Structural Equation Modeling, Time Series
and Multilevel Modeling.

Awards
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, 2003-2004.
National Science Foundation Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Fellowship, Columbia University, 2003-2004.
Earl C. Wallace Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, 2003.
American Politics Research Group Summer Research Fellowship 2000-2002.

Publications
2005. “Determining Economic News Coverage,” International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

2005. “Issue Attitudes and Survey Continuity across Interview Mode in the 2000 NES,” (w/Nathan Kelly and H. Whitt Kilburn) Political Analysis.

2005. “Measuring Gay and Lesbian Group Affect,” (w/Gregory Pettis) Journal of Homosexuality.

2004. “Presidential Campaigning in the 2002 Congressional Elections,” (w/Luke Keele and James
Stimson) PS: Political Science and Politics Vol. XXXVII, No. 4 (October).

Papers Under Review
“The Persuasiveness of Policy Arguments” (w/Jennifer Wolak)

Working Papers
“Revealing Secrets in a Model of a Constrained Legislator”

“Out-of-Step: Local News Media Coverage of House Representatives”

“The Strategy of the Story: Media Monitoring Legislative Activity”

“Rich State, Poor State, Red State, Blue State: Who’s Voting For Whom in Presidential Elections?” (w/Andrew Gelman, Joseph Bafumi, Boris Shor)

“Seniority in Legislatures Revisited” (w/Elizabeth Maggie Penn)

“The Role of Tolerance in Candidate Evaluations” (w/Greg Pettis, Stephen Moore, Pam Conover)

“A Model of Constraints on Sincere Voting Among Lower Appellate Court Judges” (w/Andrea McAtee)

Conference Presentations
“Revealing Secrets in a Model of a Constrained Legislator” presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2004, Chicago, Illinois.

“Out-of-Step: Local News Media Coverage of House Representatives” presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2003, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“The Process Revealed: News Media, Legislators and Constituents Connections, Interactions and Communications” EITM poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2003, Chicago, Illinois.

“A Model of Constraints on Sincere Voting Among Lower Appellate Court Judges” (w/Andrea McAtee) presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2003, Chicago, Illinois.

“Out-of-Step: Local News Media Coverage of House Representatives” presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, November 2002, Savannah, Georgia.

“The Measurement of Political Issue Belief Systems Across Survey Modes” (w/Nathan Kelly and Whitt Kilburn) presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, November 2002, Savannah, Georgia.

“Revising Candidate Evaluation Models: The Roles of Democratic Norms and Liberal Values” (w/Greg Pettis, Stephen Moore, Pamela Johnston Conover) poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2002, Boston, Massachusetts.

“The Persuasiveness of Policy Arguments” (w/Jennifer Wolak) presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2002, Chicago, Illinois.

“Revising Candidate Evaluation Models: The Roles of Democratic Norms and Liberal Values” (w/Greg Pettis, Stephen Moore, Pamela Johnston Conover) presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2002, Chicago, Illinois.

“The Strategy of the Story: Media Monitoring Legislative Activity” presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2001, San Francisco, California.

“Legislators and Journalists as Strategic Actors in the Newsmaking Process” presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2001, Chicago, Illinois.

Invited Presentations
“The Strategy of the Story: Media Monitoring Legislative Activity” presented at the Duke/UNC American Politics Research Group, October 2001.

“The Role of Tolerance in Candidate Evaluations” presented at the Duke/UNC American Politics Research Group, April 2000.

Teaching
Instructor, Public Opinion and Political Participation, Spring 2003.

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to American Politics (Prof. Rabinowitz), Fall 2001, 2002, 2004.

Grader, The Politics of Bureaucracy and Business and Government Relations (both with Prof. Ting), Fall 2000, 2001.

Teaching Assistant, Congress, President and Public Policy (Prof. Hardin), Spring 2000.

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to State and Local Government (Prof. Vercellotti), Fall 1999.

Research
Research Assistant for Prof. James Stimson, Summer 2003.

Research Assistant for Prof. Michael Ting and Prof. James Snyder, Jr. (MIT), funded by a NSF Grant, Fall 2000-Spring 2002.

Research Assistant for White House 2001 Project (directed by Prof. Terry Sullivan), Fall 2000-Spring 2001.

Research Assistant for North Carolina Governor’s Media Project (directed by Prof. Thad Beyle), Spring 2000.

Professional Activity
American Political Science Association, member
Midwest Political Science Association, member
Southern Political Science Association, member
Reviewer, Political Analysis, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Political Psychology

References
Michael MacKuen
Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265
mackuen@email.unc.edu

Michael Ting
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science and SIPA
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
mmt2033@columbia.edu

George Rabinowitz
Burton Craige Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265
rabinowitz@unc.edu

Marco Steenbergen
Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265
msteenbe@email.unc.edu

John Aldrich
Pfizer-Pratt Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0204
aldrich@duke.edu

Last Updated 9/8/04