Michael Wagner

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Indiana University, 2006
Fields: Political Behavior, Public Opinion, Political Psychology, Media, Congress, Political Parties, and Presidency.

Mike Wagner’s research and teaching interests encompass a wide range that focuses on the interplay between political elites and the public. He is published in the Annual Review of Political Science, American Politics Research, State Politics and Policy Quarterly and several edited volumes. Mike also has a co-authored book (with Ted Carmines and Jessica Gerrity), Congress in the Public Mind, under contract at Cambridge University Press. He was project director on the 2006 Congressional Election Study conducted by the Center on Congress at Indiana University. He is also the recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation and the Dirksen Congressional Center. Current projects include work on issue framing, campaign ads and election coverage (with Brian Schaffner), religion and politics (with Eric Zeemering), and issue preferences and ideological heterogeneity in the American electorate (with Ted Carmines and Mike Ensley).