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NBN Episodes hosted by Heath:
September 9, 2020
A Discussion of 'The Party Decides'
The Party Decides is the most (only?) meme'd book in the history of political science. It's the one MTV called the biggest loser after the South Carol…
July 2, 2020
Co-Authored
When you ask people about academic collaborations, Piven and Cloward is almost always the first one they mention. In this episode of the Co-Authored p…
May 26, 2020
Co-Authored
The COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered colleges and universities across the globe. With that, collaboration has been stalled, frustrated, or interrupted.…
April 20, 2020
Co-Authored
On this episode of the Co-Authored podcast, we learn about one the most ambitious recent collaborations. The Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election S…
March 11, 2020
Co-Authored
Great collaborations often work like a family. They involve love, effort, and support, but also conflict and disagreement. The multi-decade collaborat…
February 5, 2020
Co-Authored
The Co-Authored podcast takes you behind the major academic collaborations in the study of politics. The first episode of the Co-Authored podcast focu…
December 26, 2019
Politics of Empowerment
David Pettinicchio has written Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform (Stanford University Press, 2019). H…
December 19, 2019
The Anger Gap
In the race for the best book of 2020, Davin Phoenix has placed himself in the lead. Phoenix has written The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Pol…
December 5, 2019
Sold My Soul for a Student Loan
With free college in the national conversation, there’s been no better time for Daniel T. Kirsch’s new book Sold My Soul for a Student Loan: Higher Ed…
November 19, 2019
Creating the Law
In Creating the Law: State Supreme Court Opinions and The Effect of Audiences (Routledge, 2019), Michael Romano and Todd Curry examine whether judges …
November 14, 2019
American Resistance
Dana Fisher has written a big new book on the movement to oppose Donald Trump, titled American Resistance: From the Women's March to the Blue Wave (Co…
November 7, 2019
Shadow Network
What is the most important organization you’ve never heard of? Anne Nelson has an answer: the Council for National Policy. Nelson is Adjunct Associate…
October 30, 2019
Dangerously Divided
In his new book Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Zoltan Hajna…
October 18, 2019
World War II and American Racial Politics
World War II played an important role in the trajectory of race and American political development, but the War's effects were much more complex than …
October 10, 2019
Inconsistency and Indecision in the United States Supreme Court
The United States Supreme Court operates to resolve disputes among lower courts and the other branches of government, allowing elected officials, citi…
September 30, 2019
Pork Barrel Politics
In Andrew Sidman, Pork Barrel Politics: How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era (Columbia University Press, 2019), offers a sy…
September 18, 2019
The Great Broadening
Bryan Jones, Sean Theriault, and Michelle Whyman are out with a big book on with a provocative thesis. In The Great Broadening: How the Vast Expansion…
August 28, 2019
American While Black
Just in time for the APSA annual meeting, Niambi Michele Carter has written an incredibly timely book on a central issue to American politics, America…
August 6, 2019
American Bonds
Federal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed securities have gained widespread attention in recent years because of the 2008 financial crisis, b…
July 26, 2019
Polarization
In Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2019), Nolan McCarty synthesizes what scholars know and don't know about the or…
July 22, 2019
The IMF, the WTO &
Both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) practice periodic surveillance of member states to ensure they are a…
July 9, 2019
Red State Revolt
Eric Blanc is the author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Verso, 2019). Blanc is a former teacher, journalis…
July 2, 2019
Foreign Policy Advocacy and Entrepreneurship
With the US in the midst of on-going negotiations with Iran, North Korea, and China, how is Congress playing a part? How is the new generation of Cong…
June 17, 2019
Bending the Rules
Rule-making may rarely make headlines, but the significance of this largely hidden process cannot be underestimated. Rachel Augustine Potter makes the…