Michael T. Heaney
Assistant Professor
Ph.D, Chicago, 2004
Email:mtheaney@ufl.edu
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Michael T. Heaney's research focuses on organizational processes in American politics and
public policy, with particular attention to interest groups, political parties, social movements, bureaucracies, and legislatures. His doctoral
dissertation, Identity, Coalitions, and Influence: The Politics of Interest Group Networks in Health Policy, examines how lobbyists in Washington,
DC, use policy networks to form coalitions and exert influence over national health policies. He recently completed a series of papers on the
organizational aspects of political protest, with particular attention to the contemporary anti-war movement. His research appears in American Politics Research, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Research in Higher Education, Regional Science Perspectives, Qualitative Sociology, The American Political Science Review, and The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. He has also written for popular and trade publications, such as The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Hill, Modern Healthcare, and Influence.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Florida, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. In 2005, he received the Party Politics Award from the section on Political Organizations and Parties of the American Political Science Association.
Michael was named a Congressional Fellow by the American Political Science Association for the 2007-2008 academic year. He will spend the year working for a member of Congress in Washington, DC.
