Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a lecture titled, “How Virginia Politics is Changing — and How It is Not,” at the Virginia Professional Communicators Annual Meeting in Winchester, Va. The talk included findings from the center’s recent survey of Virginia public opinion.
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Farnsworth Presents Research Paper on the Obama Presidency
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a research paper titled, “The Barack Obama Presidency and the Rise of the Diffident Presidential Style,” in Chicago at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. The paper includes findings from Dr. Farnsworth’s latest co-authored book, “The Global President.”
Why Mayor Dwight Jones’ Choice of Richmond Lawyer Isn’t So Surprising (Style Weekly.com)
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Farnsworth Lectures at Women’s Club of Richmond
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a lecture titled, “The State of the 2016 Presidential Campaign,” to the Women’s Club of Richmond.
Farnsworth’s Book Chapter Published
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is co-author of a book chapter, “News Coverage of U.S. Presidential Campaigns: Reporting on Primaries and General Elections, 1988-2012,” published in The Praeger Handbook of Political Campaigning in the United States (William Benoit, ed.).
Late Night Tells 3 Times as Many Jokes About 2016 Republicans as Democrats (Washington Post)
Opinion Column, The Fix, The Washington Post
By S. Robert Lichter, Stephen J. Farnsworth and Deanne Canieso
Republican presidential candidates frequently complain about reporters, but they routinely face even greater ridicule by a wing of the media that makes no pretense to being fair and balanced — television’s late-night humorists. Front-runner Donald Trump was recently the target of a harsh, unprecedented 22-minute monologue by HBO’s John Oliver, who uncovered Trump’s ancestral name and urged viewers to “Make Donald Drumpf Again.” The segment has been viewed about 20 million times on YouTube.
Candidates frequently try to neutralize the mocking by appearing on these late-night entertainment shows to demonstrate to viewers that they can take a joke and even be in on one. But it doesn’t always work for Republicans, such as when Ted Cruz endured a hostile interview and audience booing on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Even the blustery, confident Trump was unusually circumspect when he appeared face to face with Colbert, who has joked that Trump does poorly with evangelical Christian voters because he looks too much like a golden calf.
