Fagan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He studies political parties, Congress, think tanks, agenda setting, lobbying, and economic policy. In particular, he is interested in how legislatures process information and solve problems, and how party elites influence policy. He is also a graduate research fellow and former project manager with the Policy Agendas Project. He produces and co-hosts the Policy Agendas Podcast.
Before graduate school, Fagan worked for five years in Washington, DC. From 2011-2014, he was Deputy Communications Director for Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a research and advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. GFI works to study and curtail illicit financial flows from developing countries.
Host On
- Episode 14: State Capture (with Alexander Hertel-Fernandez)
- Episode 13: Do Local Policy Agendas Respond to Local Problems? (with Dr. Peter Mortensen)
- Episode 12: Suspect Citizens (with Frank Baumgartner)
- Episode 11: Policy Feedback in Democracies and Non-Democracies (with Ross Buchanan)
- Episode 9: The Great Broadening with Bryan Jones, Sean Theriault and Michelle Whyman