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ID18395
NAMEM T Heaney
GIVEN NAMESM T
FAMILY NAMEHeaney
SIGNATUREHEANEY M T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
ORCID0000-0003-1678-1043
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS418
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX12
  • Nuclear Weapons, Protest, and American Political Parties, 1944 to 2020

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•American Behavioral Scientist•2025•References: 32

    Nuclear weapons and protest have had a longstanding connection in the United States since the end of World War II. This research investigates the reciprocal relationship between U.S. political parties' positions on nuclear weapons and media coverage of international anti-nuclear protest. In doing so, it considers the interactive effects of parties and protests, variations in the dangers of nuclear weapons, and the effects of presidential incumben…

  • Interactions among national and supranational identities: Mobilizing the independence movement in Scotland

    Open Access•M T Heaney, Erika L Anderson et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Political Science•2023•References: 30

    As nationalism rises worldwide, understanding the relevance of national identities is at a premium in both the study of mass political behavior and the analysis of social movements. Drawing on research in social psychology, this study explores interactions among national and supranational identities using the concepts of identity interference (i.e., negative interactions) and identity complementarity (i.e., positive interactions). These interacti…

  • The Multivalence of Crowds

    M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Social research•2023

    Crowds have diverse meanings and serve varied functions for their participants and observers. To make sense of this diversity, the ontology of crowds can be understood through two dimensions: (1) global/collective processes versus local/individual processes; and (2) symbolic benefits/costs versus concrete benefits/costs. Combining these dimensions yields four ideal types: crowds as symbols, crowds as identities, crowds as networks, and crowds as …

  • Black Protesters in a White Social Movement: Looking to the Anti-Iraq War Movement to Develop a Theory of Racialized Activism

    Open Access•F Rojas, M T Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•Socius Sociological Research for…•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 47

    On the basis of ethnographic and historical accounts, many movement scholars hold that differences in political expectations and interaction styles inhibit cross-racial collaboration in social movements. Inspired by this research, the authors ask three questions about minority participation in social movements and address them using a survey of more than 6,000 participants in the anti-Iraq War movement. First, the authors ask about relational ine…

  • Who Are Black Lives Matter Activists? Niche Realization in a Multimovement Environment

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 84

    Within the context of a social movement, a niche is a set of its supporters’ characteristics that define the movement’s location in a multidimensional space. Niches may clearly separate movements from one another or niches may overlap. This article examines the realization of an activist niche by Black Lives Matter (BLM), which has become one of the most prominent movements of the early twenty-first century. It draws on surveys of 3,860 activists…

  • Street Citizens: Protest Politics and Social Movement Activism in the Age of Globalization

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2020•Cited by: 4

  • Intersectionality at the grassroots

    M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Politics Groups and Identities•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 28

    Intersectional activism is organizing that addresses more than one structure of oppression in the struggle for social justice. The rise of the Women’s March as a massive effort to mobilize women primarily on the basis of gender coincided with calls for it to pay greater attention to intersectionality. This study considers the effectiveness of the Women’s March at using intersectional activism as a collective action frame. Drawing on surveys condu…

  • The partisan ties of lobbying firms

    Open Access•Alexander C Furnas, M T Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•Research & Politics•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 19

    This article examines lobbying firms as intermediaries between organized interests and legislators in the United States. It states a partisan theory of legislative subsidy in which lobbying firms are institutions with relatively stable partisan identities. Firms generate greater revenues when their clients believe that firms’ partisan ties are valued highly by members of Congress. It hypothesizes that firms that have partisan ties to the majority…

  • Space Invaders: Radical Geographies of Protest

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2019•Cited by: 1

  • Contributions by Interest Groups to Lobbying Coalitions

    M T Heaney, Philip Leifeld•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2018•Cited by: 37•References: 26

    Decisions by interest groups about when and how to work together inside coalitions are critical components of interest group strategies. This article argues that the composition of lobbying coalitions is a key factor that relates to these decisions. First, partisan diversity within a coalition may enhance contributions from groups if bipartisanship is seen as a positive signal of the coalition’s likely success. Second, network embeddedness may en…

  • Response to Daniel Schlozman’s review of Party in the Streets: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11

    Open Access•M T Heaney, F Rojas•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2017

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • Activism in an Era of Partisan Polarization

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2017

  • Unconventional protests: Partisans and independents outside the Republican and Democratic national conventions

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Research & Politics•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    Protests at national party conventions are an important setting in which political parties and social movements challenge one another. This article examines the motivations of participants in these events. Drawing upon data from surveys of protesters outside the 2008 national party conventions, it focuses on how partisan and independent political identifications correspond with the reasons that individuals give for protesting. The results demonst…

  • Gender Attitudes, Gendered Partisanship: Feminism and Support for Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton among Party Activists

    Elizabeth A Sharrow, Dara Z Strolovitch et al.•ARTICLE•Women & Politics•2016•Cited by: 21•References: 56

    Activists in the Democratic and Republican parties have distinct concerns about women’s place in American politics and society. These views lead them to evaluate female candidates through different ideological lenses that are conditioned, in part, on their divergent attitudes about gender. We explore the implications of these diverging lenses through an examination of the 2008 candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, using data from an ori…

  • Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11

    Open Access•M T Heaney, F Rojas•BOOK•Party in the Street•2015

    Party in the Street explores the interaction between political parties and social movements in the United States. Examining the collapse of the post-9/11 antiwar movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this book focuses on activism and protest in the United States. It argues that the electoral success of the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama, as well as antipathy toward President George W. Bush, played a greater role in this …

  • Multiplex networks and interest group influence reputation: An exponential random graph model

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Social Networks•2014

  • Mobilizing Marginalized Groups among Party Elites

    Open Access•Seth Masket, M T Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•The Forum•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    The Democratic Party has long used a system of caucuses and councils to reach out to marginalized groups among convention delegates. This article tests two hypotheses about how this system works within the party. First, the Parties in Service to Candidates Hypothesis holds that caucuses and councils mobilize elites from marginalized groups to increase support for the party nominee. Second, the Group Solidarity Hypothesis holds that caucuses and c…

  • Hybrid Activism: Social Movement Mobilization in a Multimovement Environment

    M T Heaney, F Rojas•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2014•Cited by: 35•References: 118

    Social movement organizations often struggle to mobilize supporters from allied movements in their efforts to achieve critical mass. The authors argue that organizations with hybrid identities--those whose organizational identities span the boundaries of two or more social movements, issues, or identities--are vital to mobilizing these constituencies. They use original data from their study of the post-9/11 U.S. antiwar movement to show that indi…

  • Coalition portfolios and interest group influence over the policy process

    Open Access•M T Heaney, Geoffrey M Lorenz•ARTICLE•Interest Groups & Advocacy•2013•Cited by: 23•References: 24

  • Polarized Networks: The Organizational Affiliations of National Party Convention Delegates

    Open Access•M T Heaney, Seth E Masket et al.•ARTICLE•American Behavioral Scientist•2012•Cited by: 12•References: 54

    Previous research has documented that the institutional behaviors (e.g., lobbying, campaign contributions) of political organizations reflect the polarization of these organizations along party lines. However, little is known about how these groups are connected at the level of individual party activists. Using data from a survey of 738 delegates at the 2008 Democratic and Republican national conventions, we use network regression analysis to dem…

  • The Partisan Dynamics of Contention: Demobilization of the Antiwar Movement in the United States, 2007-2009

    M T Heaney, Michael Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilization An International…•2011•Cited by: 27•References: 20

    Changes in threats perceived by activists, partisan identification, and coalition brokerage are three mechanisms that help to explain the demobilization of the antiwar movement in the United States from 2007 to 2009. Drawing upon 5,398 surveys of demonstrators at antiwar protests, interviews with movement leaders, and ethnographic observation, this article argues that the antiwar movement demobilized as Democrats, who had been motivated to partic…

  • Causality in Political Networks

    Open Access•J H Fowler, M T Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•American Politics Research•2011•Cited by: 59•References: 88

    Investigations of American politics have increasingly turned to analyses of political networks to understand public opinion, voting behavior, the diffusion of policy ideas, bill sponsorship in the legislature, interest group coalitions and influence, party factions, institutional development, and other empirical phenomena. While the association between political networks and political behavior is well established, clear causal inferences are ofte…

  • Linking Political Parties and Interest Groups

    M T Heaney•CHAPTER•The Oxford handbook of American…•2010

    This article argues that political parties and interest groups are intricately and inextricably linked to one another. First, it examines co-evolution, discipline, brokerage, and identity as mechanisms that link parties and groups. The theoretical perspective behind each of these mechanisms is also explained in the context of empirical research that documents their relevance to organizational strategies and behaviours. It discusses how a research…

  • Organizing Womenas Women: Hybridity and Grassroots Collective Action in the 21stCentury

    Open Access•Kristin A Go, M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2010•Cited by: 29•References: 75

    The Million Mom March (favoring gun control) and Code Pink: Women for Peace (focusing on foreign policy, especially the war in Iraq) are organizations that have mobilized womenas womenin an era when other women's groups struggled to maintain critical mass and turned away from non-gender-specific public issues. This article addresses how these organizations fostered collective consciousness among women, a large and diverse group, while confronting…

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  • Causality in Political Networks

    Open Access•J H Fowler, M T Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•American Politics Research•2011•Cited by: 59•References: 88

    Investigations of American politics have increasingly turned to analyses of political networks to understand public opinion, voting behavior, the diffusion of policy ideas, bill sponsorship in the legislature, interest group coalitions and influence, party factions, institutional development, and other empirical phenomena. While the association between political networks and political behavior is well established, clear causal inferences are ofte…

  • Contributions by Interest Groups to Lobbying Coalitions

    M T Heaney, Philip Leifeld•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2018•Cited by: 37•References: 26

    Decisions by interest groups about when and how to work together inside coalitions are critical components of interest group strategies. This article argues that the composition of lobbying coalitions is a key factor that relates to these decisions. First, partisan diversity within a coalition may enhance contributions from groups if bipartisanship is seen as a positive signal of the coalition’s likely success. Second, network embeddedness may en…

  • Hybrid Activism: Social Movement Mobilization in a Multimovement Environment

    M T Heaney, F Rojas•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2014•Cited by: 35•References: 118

    Social movement organizations often struggle to mobilize supporters from allied movements in their efforts to achieve critical mass. The authors argue that organizations with hybrid identities--those whose organizational identities span the boundaries of two or more social movements, issues, or identities--are vital to mobilizing these constituencies. They use original data from their study of the post-9/11 U.S. antiwar movement to show that indi…

  • Partisans, Nonpartisans, and the Antiwar Movement in the United States

    Open Access•M T Heaney, F Rojas•ARTICLE•American Politics Research•2007•Cited by: 30•References: 36

    American social movements are often bitterly divided about whether their objectives are achieved better by working with one of the major political parties or by operating independently. These divisions are consequential for how social movements and political parties respond to one another. First, differing partisan attitudes shape the structure of activist networks, leading activists to join organizations with others who share their party loyalti…

  • Outside the Issue Niche: The Multidimensionality of Interest Group Identity

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•American Politics Research•2004•Cited by: 30•References: 22

    Interest groups care deeply about, and struggle to shape, their identities on Capitol Hill. A group’s identity is what makes it unique and separates it from other organizations in the advocacy community. Previous research has argued that interest group identities are formed by creating exclusive niches over narrow policy issues, but this research has neglected the degree to which groups depend on representation, ideology, and advocacy techniques …

  • Organizing Womenas Women: Hybridity and Grassroots Collective Action in the 21stCentury

    Open Access•Kristin A Go, M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2010•Cited by: 29•References: 75

    The Million Mom March (favoring gun control) and Code Pink: Women for Peace (focusing on foreign policy, especially the war in Iraq) are organizations that have mobilized womenas womenin an era when other women's groups struggled to maintain critical mass and turned away from non-gender-specific public issues. This article addresses how these organizations fostered collective consciousness among women, a large and diverse group, while confronting…

  • Issue Networks, Information, and Interest Group Alliances: The Case of Wisconsin Welfare Politics, 1993-99

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•State Politics & Policy Quarterly•2004•Cited by: 28•References: 45

    Interest group scholars have long emphasized the importance of group alliances in the policymaking process. But little is known about how groups choose specific alliance partners; that is, who works with whom? Social embeddedness theory suggests that the social location of groups in issue networks affects the information available to them about potential partners and the desirability of particular alliances. To test this hypothesis, I use data fr…

  • The Partisan Dynamics of Contention: Demobilization of the Antiwar Movement in the United States, 2007-2009

    M T Heaney, Michael Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilization An International…•2011•Cited by: 27•References: 20

    Changes in threats perceived by activists, partisan identification, and coalition brokerage are three mechanisms that help to explain the demobilization of the antiwar movement in the United States from 2007 to 2009. Drawing upon 5,398 surveys of demonstrators at antiwar protests, interviews with movement leaders, and ethnographic observation, this article argues that the antiwar movement demobilized as Democrats, who had been motivated to partic…

  • The Place of Framing: Multiple Audiences and Antiwar Protests near Fort Bragg

    Open Access•M T Heaney, Fabio Rojas•ARTICLE•Qualitative Sociology•2006•Cited by: 25•References: 31

  • Coalition portfolios and interest group influence over the policy process

    Open Access•M T Heaney, Geoffrey M Lorenz•ARTICLE•Interest Groups & Advocacy•2013•Cited by: 23•References: 24

  • Gender Attitudes, Gendered Partisanship: Feminism and Support for Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton among Party Activists

    Elizabeth A Sharrow, Dara Z Strolovitch et al.•ARTICLE•Women & Politics•2016•Cited by: 21•References: 56

    Activists in the Democratic and Republican parties have distinct concerns about women’s place in American politics and society. These views lead them to evaluate female candidates through different ideological lenses that are conditioned, in part, on their divergent attitudes about gender. We explore the implications of these diverging lenses through an examination of the 2008 candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, using data from an ori…

  • Building the Chicago School

    Open Access•M T Heaney, John Mark Hansen•ARTICLE•American Political Science Review•2006•Cited by: 13•References: 20

    The Chicago School of Political Science, which emerged at the University of Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, is widely known for its reconception of the study of politics as a scientific endeavor on the model of the natural sciences. Less attention has been devoted to the genesis of the school itself. In this article, we examine the scientific vision, faculty, curriculum, and supporting institutions of the Chicago School. The creation of the Chica…

  • Polarized Networks: The Organizational Affiliations of National Party Convention Delegates

    Open Access•M T Heaney, Seth E Masket et al.•ARTICLE•American Behavioral Scientist•2012•Cited by: 12•References: 54

    Previous research has documented that the institutional behaviors (e.g., lobbying, campaign contributions) of political organizations reflect the polarization of these organizations along party lines. However, little is known about how these groups are connected at the level of individual party activists. Using data from a survey of 738 delegates at the 2008 Democratic and Republican national conventions, we use network regression analysis to dem…

  • Intersectionality at the grassroots

    M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Politics Groups and Identities•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 28

    Intersectional activism is organizing that addresses more than one structure of oppression in the struggle for social justice. The rise of the Women’s March as a massive effort to mobilize women primarily on the basis of gender coincided with calls for it to pay greater attention to intersectionality. This study considers the effectiveness of the Women’s March at using intersectional activism as a collective action frame. Drawing on surveys condu…

  • Social Networks and American Politics: Introduction to the Special Issue

    Open Access•M T Heaney, Scott D Mcclurg•ARTICLE•American Politics Research•2009•Cited by: 9•References: 32

    This article overviews the special issue on “Social Networks and American Politics.” The authors explain that social network analysis is a multimethod set of approaches to examining the pattern of connections that are created among individuals and institutions when they engage in their daily activities. It is especially valuable when research problems are about (a) the flow of information; (b) coordination, cooperation, or trust; (c) informal org…

  • Griffins and Arimaspeans

    Adrienne Mayor, M T Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•Folklore•1993•Cited by: 8

    EACH of the authors is a member of both the Folklore Society and the International Society of Cryptozoology, and each presented a paper at the joint meeting of the two societies held at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England, 12-33 July 1990. A shorter version of the first half of this paper was presented by Adrienne Mayor then (and at the Biology-Classics Seminar, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 10 April 1991, and at…

  • The partisan ties of lobbying firms

    Open Access•Alexander C Furnas, M T Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•Research & Politics•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 19

    This article examines lobbying firms as intermediaries between organized interests and legislators in the United States. It states a partisan theory of legislative subsidy in which lobbying firms are institutions with relatively stable partisan identities. Firms generate greater revenues when their clients believe that firms’ partisan ties are valued highly by members of Congress. It hypothesizes that firms that have partisan ties to the majority…

  • Street Citizens: Protest Politics and Social Movement Activism in the Age of Globalization

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2020•Cited by: 4

  • Who Are Black Lives Matter Activists? Niche Realization in a Multimovement Environment

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 84

    Within the context of a social movement, a niche is a set of its supporters’ characteristics that define the movement’s location in a multidimensional space. Niches may clearly separate movements from one another or niches may overlap. This article examines the realization of an activist niche by Black Lives Matter (BLM), which has become one of the most prominent movements of the early twenty-first century. It draws on surveys of 3,860 activists…

  • Black Protesters in a White Social Movement: Looking to the Anti-Iraq War Movement to Develop a Theory of Racialized Activism

    Open Access•F Rojas, M T Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•Socius Sociological Research for…•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 47

    On the basis of ethnographic and historical accounts, many movement scholars hold that differences in political expectations and interaction styles inhibit cross-racial collaboration in social movements. Inspired by this research, the authors ask three questions about minority participation in social movements and address them using a survey of more than 6,000 participants in the anti-Iraq War movement. First, the authors ask about relational ine…

  • Unconventional protests: Partisans and independents outside the Republican and Democratic national conventions

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Research & Politics•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    Protests at national party conventions are an important setting in which political parties and social movements challenge one another. This article examines the motivations of participants in these events. Drawing upon data from surveys of protesters outside the 2008 national party conventions, it focuses on how partisan and independent political identifications correspond with the reasons that individuals give for protesting. The results demonst…

  • Space Invaders: Radical Geographies of Protest

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2019•Cited by: 1

  • Activism in an Era of Partisan Polarization

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content

  • Mobilizing Marginalized Groups among Party Elites

    Open Access•Seth Masket, M T Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•The Forum•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    The Democratic Party has long used a system of caucuses and councils to reach out to marginalized groups among convention delegates. This article tests two hypotheses about how this system works within the party. First, the Parties in Service to Candidates Hypothesis holds that caucuses and councils mobilize elites from marginalized groups to increase support for the party nominee. Second, the Group Solidarity Hypothesis holds that caucuses and c…

  • Blogging Congress: Technological Change and the Politics of the Congressional Press Galleries

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2008•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    New media historically have had difficulty obtaining access to the U. S. Congress. As technological changes have shifted the competitive balance among news organizations, the more established media have traditionally fought back by attempting to exclude the upstarts from the corridors of power. For example, Associate Senate Historian Donald Ritchie (1991) recounts the struggle by radio to gain a foothold against the opposition of entrenched newsp…

  • A New Theory of Morris Origins: A Review Article

    M T Heaney, Michael Heaney•ARTICLE•Folklore•1985

    dance research in recent years, but few people have dared to pronounce on the origin of the dance (or rather dances). Forrest himself is appropriately diffident about theories of the 'origin' of Morris dancing, writing in his 'Historical Survey of the Morris' (p. 15): 'To attempt to discover the pure or original morris dance is a lost cause.' He sets his sights lower, concentrating on the ancestry of the Cotswold Morris dances. The purpose of the…

  • Kingston to Kenilworth: Early Plebeian Morris

    M T Heaney, Michael Heaney•ARTICLE•Folklore•1989•References: 2

    MANY attempts have been made over the years to elucidate the origins of the morris dance in England. This paper is not one of them. Rather, it attempts an essential preliminary to such an endeavour, namely a description of the context of the dance in the earliest period for which we have records. In particular, it will examine the records relating to dancing by the ordinary people of England. Many of these records relate to parish entertainments,…

  • Griffins and Arimaspeans

    Adrienne Mayor, M T Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•Folklore•1993•Cited by: 8

    EACH of the authors is a member of both the Folklore Society and the International Society of Cryptozoology, and each presented a paper at the joint meeting of the two societies held at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England, 12-33 July 1990. A shorter version of the first half of this paper was presented by Adrienne Mayor then (and at the Biology-Classics Seminar, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 10 April 1991, and at…

  • Issue Networks, Information, and Interest Group Alliances: The Case of Wisconsin Welfare Politics, 1993-99

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•State Politics & Policy Quarterly•2004•Cited by: 28•References: 45

    Interest group scholars have long emphasized the importance of group alliances in the policymaking process. But little is known about how groups choose specific alliance partners; that is, who works with whom? Social embeddedness theory suggests that the social location of groups in issue networks affects the information available to them about potential partners and the desirability of particular alliances. To test this hypothesis, I use data fr…

  • Outside the Issue Niche: The Multidimensionality of Interest Group Identity

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•American Politics Research•2004•Cited by: 30•References: 22

    Interest groups care deeply about, and struggle to shape, their identities on Capitol Hill. A group’s identity is what makes it unique and separates it from other organizations in the advocacy community. Previous research has argued that interest group identities are formed by creating exclusive niches over narrow policy issues, but this research has neglected the degree to which groups depend on representation, ideology, and advocacy techniques …

  • Brokering Health Policy: Coalitions, Parties, and Interest Group Influence

    M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Journal of Health Politics Policy…•2006

    Assuming a position as broker between disconnected interests is one way for an interest group to influence the making of federal health policy. This study demonstrates how groups use their connections with political parties and lobbying coalitions to augment their brokerage positions and enhance their influence over policy making. Evidence is drawn from statistical analysis of 263 interviews with health policy elites and a qualitative case study …

  • The Place of Framing: Multiple Audiences and Antiwar Protests near Fort Bragg

    Open Access•M T Heaney, Fabio Rojas•ARTICLE•Qualitative Sociology•2006•Cited by: 25•References: 31

  • Building the Chicago School

    Open Access•M T Heaney, John Mark Hansen•ARTICLE•American Political Science Review•2006•Cited by: 13•References: 20

    The Chicago School of Political Science, which emerged at the University of Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, is widely known for its reconception of the study of politics as a scientific endeavor on the model of the natural sciences. Less attention has been devoted to the genesis of the school itself. In this article, we examine the scientific vision, faculty, curriculum, and supporting institutions of the Chicago School. The creation of the Chica…

  • The Chicago School That Never Was

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2007•References: 15

    Acentral problem in the development of political science has long been how to emulate the objectivity and rigor of natural science while simultaneously retaining relevance for conducting public affairs. For some observers, however, the very notion of a natural-scientific orientation to the study of politics is antithetical to its relevance to practical politics. Woodrow Wilson (1911, 10) struck at the heart of the matter when he proclaimed that “…

  • Partisans, Nonpartisans, and the Antiwar Movement in the United States

    Open Access•M T Heaney, F Rojas•ARTICLE•American Politics Research•2007•Cited by: 30•References: 36

    American social movements are often bitterly divided about whether their objectives are achieved better by working with one of the major political parties or by operating independently. These divisions are consequential for how social movements and political parties respond to one another. First, differing partisan attitudes shape the structure of activist networks, leading activists to join organizations with others who share their party loyalti…

  • Blogging Congress: Technological Change and the Politics of the Congressional Press Galleries

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•PS Political Science & Politics•2008•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    New media historically have had difficulty obtaining access to the U. S. Congress. As technological changes have shifted the competitive balance among news organizations, the more established media have traditionally fought back by attempting to exclude the upstarts from the corridors of power. For example, Associate Senate Historian Donald Ritchie (1991) recounts the struggle by radio to gain a foothold against the opposition of entrenched newsp…

  • Social Networks and American Politics: Introduction to the Special Issue

    Open Access•M T Heaney, Scott D Mcclurg•ARTICLE•American Politics Research•2009•Cited by: 9•References: 32

    This article overviews the special issue on “Social Networks and American Politics.” The authors explain that social network analysis is a multimethod set of approaches to examining the pattern of connections that are created among individuals and institutions when they engage in their daily activities. It is especially valuable when research problems are about (a) the flow of information; (b) coordination, cooperation, or trust; (c) informal org…

  • Linking Political Parties and Interest Groups

    M T Heaney•CHAPTER•The Oxford handbook of American…•2010

    This article argues that political parties and interest groups are intricately and inextricably linked to one another. First, it examines co-evolution, discipline, brokerage, and identity as mechanisms that link parties and groups. The theoretical perspective behind each of these mechanisms is also explained in the context of empirical research that documents their relevance to organizational strategies and behaviours. It discusses how a research…

  • Organizing Womenas Women: Hybridity and Grassroots Collective Action in the 21stCentury

    Open Access•Kristin A Go, M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2010•Cited by: 29•References: 75

    The Million Mom March (favoring gun control) and Code Pink: Women for Peace (focusing on foreign policy, especially the war in Iraq) are organizations that have mobilized womenas womenin an era when other women's groups struggled to maintain critical mass and turned away from non-gender-specific public issues. This article addresses how these organizations fostered collective consciousness among women, a large and diverse group, while confronting…

  • The Partisan Dynamics of Contention: Demobilization of the Antiwar Movement in the United States, 2007-2009

    M T Heaney, Michael Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilization An International…•2011•Cited by: 27•References: 20

    Changes in threats perceived by activists, partisan identification, and coalition brokerage are three mechanisms that help to explain the demobilization of the antiwar movement in the United States from 2007 to 2009. Drawing upon 5,398 surveys of demonstrators at antiwar protests, interviews with movement leaders, and ethnographic observation, this article argues that the antiwar movement demobilized as Democrats, who had been motivated to partic…

  • Causality in Political Networks

    Open Access•J H Fowler, M T Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•American Politics Research•2011•Cited by: 59•References: 88

    Investigations of American politics have increasingly turned to analyses of political networks to understand public opinion, voting behavior, the diffusion of policy ideas, bill sponsorship in the legislature, interest group coalitions and influence, party factions, institutional development, and other empirical phenomena. While the association between political networks and political behavior is well established, clear causal inferences are ofte…

  • Polarized Networks: The Organizational Affiliations of National Party Convention Delegates

    Open Access•M T Heaney, Seth E Masket et al.•ARTICLE•American Behavioral Scientist•2012•Cited by: 12•References: 54

    Previous research has documented that the institutional behaviors (e.g., lobbying, campaign contributions) of political organizations reflect the polarization of these organizations along party lines. However, little is known about how these groups are connected at the level of individual party activists. Using data from a survey of 738 delegates at the 2008 Democratic and Republican national conventions, we use network regression analysis to dem…

  • Coalition portfolios and interest group influence over the policy process

    Open Access•M T Heaney, Geoffrey M Lorenz•ARTICLE•Interest Groups & Advocacy•2013•Cited by: 23•References: 24

  • Multiplex networks and interest group influence reputation: An exponential random graph model

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Social Networks•2014

  • Mobilizing Marginalized Groups among Party Elites

    Open Access•Seth Masket, M T Heaney et al.•ARTICLE•The Forum•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    The Democratic Party has long used a system of caucuses and councils to reach out to marginalized groups among convention delegates. This article tests two hypotheses about how this system works within the party. First, the Parties in Service to Candidates Hypothesis holds that caucuses and councils mobilize elites from marginalized groups to increase support for the party nominee. Second, the Group Solidarity Hypothesis holds that caucuses and c…

  • Hybrid Activism: Social Movement Mobilization in a Multimovement Environment

    M T Heaney, F Rojas•ARTICLE•American Journal of Sociology•2014•Cited by: 35•References: 118

    Social movement organizations often struggle to mobilize supporters from allied movements in their efforts to achieve critical mass. The authors argue that organizations with hybrid identities--those whose organizational identities span the boundaries of two or more social movements, issues, or identities--are vital to mobilizing these constituencies. They use original data from their study of the post-9/11 U.S. antiwar movement to show that indi…

  • Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11

    Open Access•M T Heaney, F Rojas•BOOK•Party in the Street•2015

    Party in the Street explores the interaction between political parties and social movements in the United States. Examining the collapse of the post-9/11 antiwar movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this book focuses on activism and protest in the United States. It argues that the electoral success of the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama, as well as antipathy toward President George W. Bush, played a greater role in this …

  • Unconventional protests: Partisans and independents outside the Republican and Democratic national conventions

    Open Access•M T Heaney•ARTICLE•Research & Politics•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    Protests at national party conventions are an important setting in which political parties and social movements challenge one another. This article examines the motivations of participants in these events. Drawing upon data from surveys of protesters outside the 2008 national party conventions, it focuses on how partisan and independent political identifications correspond with the reasons that individuals give for protesting. The results demonst…

  • Gender Attitudes, Gendered Partisanship: Feminism and Support for Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton among Party Activists

    Elizabeth A Sharrow, Dara Z Strolovitch et al.•ARTICLE•Women & Politics•2016•Cited by: 21•References: 56

    Activists in the Democratic and Republican parties have distinct concerns about women’s place in American politics and society. These views lead them to evaluate female candidates through different ideological lenses that are conditioned, in part, on their divergent attitudes about gender. We explore the implications of these diverging lenses through an examination of the 2008 candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, using data from an ori…

  • Response to Daniel Schlozman’s review of Party in the Streets: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11

    Open Access•M T Heaney, F Rojas•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2017

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