Category Archives: Professional Notes
Farnsworth Speaks on Virginia Politics
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a lecture titled “The Ever-changing State of Virginia Politics” in Boyce, Va., for the Candidate Training Program of the Sorensen Institute of the University of Virginia. The talk included findings from the center’s Fall 2015 statewide voter survey.
Farnsworth Lectures at US State Department Journalism Seminar
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a U.S. Department of State program lecture titled “U.S. Journalism, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Development” in Washington, D.C., for visiting journalists from several Middle Eastern nations. The lecture was part of the Institute for International Education’s International Visitor Leadership Program and included findings from Dr. Farnsworth’s recent co-authored book, “The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government.”
Farnsworth Lectures at Norwegian Washington Seminar
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a Washington lecture titled “The 2016 Presidential Election, the Mass Media and the Twilight of the Obama Presidency,” as part of the Norwegian Washington Seminar. The lecture included findings from Dr. Farnsworth’s sole-authored book, “Spinner in Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves.”
Dr. Farnsworth Speaks on Virginia Politics
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently was part of the Virginia Business Panel in Richmond, where he spoke about the results of the 2015 legislative elections and the key issues in the upcoming 2016 legislative session.
Farnsworth and O’Brien Column on Police Body Cameras (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
By Stephen J. Farnsworth and Ellen O’Brien
Police departments around the state need to get serious about supplying their officers with body cameras to record their interactions with the public, say 92 percent of Virginians surveyed in a new statewide poll sponsored by the University of Mary Washington.
In that 1,006-person survey conducted last month, only 6 percent said it would be a bad idea for officers to be equipped with body cameras. There was no gender gap in the responses to the question, and there was little difference among whites, African-Americans and Latinos or among Democrats, Republicans and independents. More than 87 percent of all those subgroups in the survey supported body camera deployment.
For those not familiar with public opinion research, a 92-6 split among survey respondents is almost unheard of in public policy questions during these days of deeply divided politics.
