{"id":613,"date":"2020-07-01T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=613"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T16:53:07","slug":"e-j-fagan","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/speaker\/e-j-fagan\/","title":{"rendered":"E. J. Fagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fagan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp;He is also a graduate research fellow and former project manager with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comparativeagendas.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Policy Agendas Project<\/a>. He produces and co-hosts the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comparativeagendas.net\/pages\/the-policy-agenda-podcast\" target=\"_blank\">Policy Agendas Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before graduate school, Fagan worked for five years in Washington, DC. From 2011-2014, he was Deputy Communications Director for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gfintegrity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Financial Integrity<\/a> (GFI), a research and advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. GFI works to study and curtail illicit financial flows from developing countries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":621,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-613","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago","speaker_last_name":"Fagan","speaker_classification":["Former Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/613\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}