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CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS OF ACCOMPLISHMENT
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CENTER FOR
Celebrating 5 years
POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
MISSION & IMPACT
The University of Delaware’s nonpartisan Center
for Political Communication, launched in 2010,
facilitates and supports faculty expertise in emerging
communication technologies, explores their effects
on elections and policy debates, establishes faculty,
graduate and undergraduate research opportunities,
and encourages public engagement. A central area of
exploration is the role of Internet-based social
networking technologies in influencing discourse
among citizens and their governments.
The Center’s mission includes:
★ Inspiring student and public participation in
politics, engaging the next generation of
public service leaders, in the United States
and abroad
★ Investigating contemporary technologies and
their effect on political communication and
on citizenship
★ Supporting leading-edge, nonpartisan
research by both faculty and students, using
the tools of social science
★ Supporting public events and programs at the
intersection of politics and communication
★ Expanding knowledge about political
communication in the United States and
worldwide.
The Center includes research and teaching
faculty in political science, communication, history
and public policy. It focuses on the relationship
among new modes of communication, citizenship
and politics.
The Center presents major, high-visibility
campus events featuring the most prominent and
successful role models in politics and public policy. Government
officials, journalists,
political strategists,
professional
communicators and
international experts
meet personally with
undergraduates for indepth discussion of
current affairs in the
Center’s “National
Agenda” series annually.
In election years,
the Center also sponsors nationally-broadcast debates
at the University among candidates for federal office.
Vice President Joe Biden, a University of
Delaware alumnus, has donated the records of his
nearly four decades in the U.S. Senate to the
University of Delaware, where they will inspire
students, scholars and others to exercise their
citizenship and to become tomorrow’s public policy
leaders.
“The epicenter of politics”
Bloomberg News has called the University of
Delaware “the epicenter of politics,” and a New York
Times columnist described UD as a “maker of
political kings” because Vice President Biden, and
David Plouffe and Steven Schmidt, chief strategists of
the Obama and McCain campaigns in 2008, are
alumni. The University also counts New Jersey
Governor Chris Christie among its alumni, along with
many other UD graduates serving in government,
media and public policy careers.
The Center and its activities
are supported by grants from
major foundations, by gifts from
individuals, and by the University
of Delaware. Its Advisory Council
is nonpartisan. Its research director
is UD faculty member Dr. Paul R.
Brewer.
Research & Publications
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
FOR STUDENTS, FACULTY,
THE STATE AND THE NATION
The University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication has created a
considerable body of work to the knowledge literature in its first five years, with 18
publications and one book attributable to CPC-affiliated faculty and students.
These interdisciplinary projects have engaged twelve authors, including six faculty
members, three graduate students and three undergraduates.
Publications Resulting from CPC-Funded Projects
Names of CPC Affiliated Faculty in Bold
Names of University of Delaware Students Underlined
Young,'Dannagal'G.!and!Jonathan!Gray!(Editors).!2013.!Breaking)Boundaries)in)Poli0cal)
Entertainment)Studies.!Los!Angeles:!!USC!Annenberg!Press.)
Brewer,'Paul'R.!2013.!“Science:!What’s!It!Up!To?!The)Daily)Show)and!the!Social!ConstrucJon!of!
Science.”!!Interna0onal)Journal)of)Communica0on)7:452P470.'
Brewer,'Paul'R.,!Dannagal'G.'Young,!and!Philip'Edward'Jones.!2013.!“Campaign!News!Genres,!
Audience!CharacterisJcs,!and!Media!PercepJons:!A!Field!Experiment.”!Electronic)News)7(4):189P203.!
Brewer,'Paul'R.,!Dannagal'G.'Young,!and!Michelle!Morreale.!2013.!“The!Impact!of!Real!News!about!
‘Fake!News’:!Intertextual!Processes!and!PoliJcal!SaJre.”!Interna0onal)Journal)of)Public)Opinion)
Research)25(3):323P343.'
Hoffman,'Lindsay'H.!2013.!“PoliJcal!Interviews:!Examining!Perceived!Media!Bias!and!Effects!across!
TV!Entertainment!Formats.”!Interna0onal)Journal)of)Communica0on)7:!471P488.)
Hoffman,'Lindsay'H.,!Philip'Edward'Jones,!and!Dannagal'G.'Young.!2013.!“Does!My!Comment!
Count?!PercepJons!of!PoliJcal!ParJcipaJon!in!an!Online!Environment.”!Computers)in)Human)
Behavior)29(6):)2248!P2256.)
Jones,'Philip'Edward,!Lindsay'H.'Hoffman,!and!Dannagal'G.'Young.!2013.!“Online!EmoJonal!Appeals!
and!PoliJcal!ParJcipaJon:!The!Effect!of!Candidate!Affect!on!Mass!Behavior.”!!New)Media)&)Society)
15(7):1132P1150.)
Wilson,'David'C.!and!Paul'R.'Brewer.!2013.!“The!FoundaJons!of!Public!Opinion!on!Voter!ID!Laws:!
PoliJcal!PredisposiJons,!Racial!Resentment,!and!InformaJon!Effects.”!Public)Opinion)Quarterly)77(4):
962P984.)!
Young,'Dannagal'G.!2013.!“PoliJcal!SaJre!and!Occupy!Wall!Street:!How!Comics!CoPopted!Strategies!
of!the!Protest!Paradigm!to!LegiJmize!a!Movement.”!Interna0onal)Journal)of)Communica0on)
7:371P393.)
Brewer,'Paul'R.,!Lindsay'H.'Hoffman,!Ruby!Harrington,!Philip'Edward'Jones,!and!Jennifer'L.'Lambe.!
2014.!“Public!PercepJons!Regarding!the!AuthenJcity!of!the!2012!PresidenJal!Candidates.”!
Presiden0al)Studies)Quarterly)44(4):742P757.'
Hoffman,'Lindsay'H.,!and!Hui!Fang.!2014.!“QuanJfying!PoliJcal!Behavior!on!Mobile!Devices!over!
Time:!A!User!EvaluaJon!Study.”!Journal)of)Informa0on)Technology)&)Poli0cs)11(4),!435P445.!
Jones,'Philip'Edward.!2014.!“RevisiJng!Stereotypes!of!NonPWhite!PoliJcians’!Ideological!and!
ParJsan!OrientaJons.”!American)Poli0cs)Research!42(2):!283–310.!
Wilson,'David'C.,!Paul'R.'Brewer,!and!Phoebe!Theodora!Rosenbluth.!2014.!“Racial!Imagery!and!
Support!for!Voter!ID!Laws.”!Race)and)Social)Problems)6(4):365P371.!
Brewer,'Paul'R.,!Ralph'J.'Begleiter,!Katherine!Anderson,!and!Meredith!Isaacs.!2015.!“Using!Tablet!
Devices!and!Social!Media!in!a!Course!about!the!2012!U.S.!ElecJon!Campaign.”!PS:)Poli0cal)Science)&)
Poli0cs)48(1):171P175.!
Brewer,'Paul'R.,!Michael!Habegger,!Ruby!Harrington,!Lindsay'H.'Hoffman,!Philip'Edward'Jones,!and!
Jennifer'L.'Lambe.!“InteracJvity!between!Candidates!and!CiJzens!on!a!Social!Networking!Site:!
Effects!on!PercepJons!and!Vote!IntenJons.”!Journal)of)Experimental)Poli0cal)Science)(forthcoming).!
Brewer,'Paul'R.,!David'C.'Wilson,!and!Michael!Habegger.!“Wedding!Imagery!and!Public!Support!for!
Gay!Marriage.”!Journal)of)Homosexuality)(forthcoming).!
Jones,'Philip'Edward.!“ConsJtuents’!Responses!to!DescripJve!and!SubstanJve!RepresentaJon!in!
Congress.”!Social)Science)Quarterly!(forthcoming).'
Jones,'Philip'Edward,!Dannagal'G.'Young,!and!Paul'R.'Brewer.!“The!Effects!of!TradiJonal!News,!
ParJsan!Talk,!and!PoliJcal!SaJre!Programs!on!PercepJons!of!PresidenJal!Candidate!Viability!and!
Electability.”!Atlan0c)Journal)of)Communica0on)(forthcoming).!
Leiy,!Tyler,!Paul'R.'Brewer,!and!Michael!Habegger.!“Tweets!on!Television!News:!The!Nature!and!
Effects!of!Campaign!Coverage!of!Twijer.”!Electronic)News!(forthcoming).!
RESEARCH SUMMARY
CPC RESEARCH EXPENDITURES 2010-2015
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
$466,000
GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
$63,000
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS
$25,000
TOTAL RESEARCH (5 YEARS) (rounded)
$554,000
NOTES:
Includes all research activities (surveys, focus groups, research equipment, symposia, panel
development)
Graduate research fellowships, undergrad research scholarships (excludes merit scholarships)
Most are inter-disciplinary (COMM and POSC), benefitting faculty and students
from both departments
Excludes CPC Laboratory equipment and facilities
List of Speakers
Updated Mar 6, 2015
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Ce l e b rat i n g 5 years
Year Speaker
2010
LAUNCH OF THE CPC
2010
2010
2010
Shibley Telhami
Nicholas Schmidle
Geneive Abdo
2010
Fawaz Gerges
2010
2010
2010
Naif Al-Mutawa
Steve Coll
Glen Urquhart v. John
Carney
Chris Coons v. Christine
O'Donnell
Patti Solis Doyle
2010
David Plouffe
2010
2010
2010
2010
2010
Title
Estimated
Attendees
(Impact)
Global Agenda - Political Islam
Global Agenda - Political Islam
Global Agenda - Political Islam
400
500
400
Global Agenda - Political Islam
400
Global Agenda - Political Islam
Global Agenda - Political Islam
Delaware Debates - U.S. House of
Representatives
400
350
Delaware candidates for U.S. Senate
Delaware Debates - U.S. Senate
700
National Agenda - Battle for Congress
300
National Agenda - Battle for Congress
600
Ken Vogel
Amos Guiora
Jim Crounse
CPC Faculty
Karl Rove & Howard Dean
Manager of Vice Presidential Campaign for Joe Biden
Presidential Campaign Manager & Senior Advisor to President
Obama
POLITICO
Israeli-American Professor of Law
Political campaign consultant
UD Faculty
Karl Rove, Republican Political Strategist
400
350
400
300
2,000
2011
13 Speakers
Professors from various universities
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
Stephan Richter
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Robert B. Zoellick
Amb. Marwan Muasher
Andrew Kohut
2011
Jamie Shea
2011
2011
Vice President Joe Biden
Candy Crowley
Chris Lehane / Steve
Schmidt
Pamela Constable
Joe Slade White / Valerie
Biden Owens
Melanie Sloan
Gov. Chris Christie
Governor: Jack Markell v.
Jeff Cragg; Lt. Gov: Matt
Denn v. Cher Valenzuela
House: John Carney v.
Kovach; Senate: Carper v.
Tom Wade v. Alex Pires
Founder, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Globalist
Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
President of the World Bank
Former Foreign Minister of Jordan
Director, Pew Global Attitudes Project
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Deputy Assistant
Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges
Vice President of the United States
CNN Chief Political Correspondent
National Agenda - Battle for Congress
National Agenda - Battle for Congress
National Agenda - Battle for Congress
National Agenda - Battle for Congress
UD Speaks: Point Counterpoint
Breaking Boundaries research
conference
Global Agenda - Perceptions Abroad
Global Agenda - Perceptions Abroad
Global Agenda - Perceptions Abroad
Global Agenda - Perceptions Abroad
Global Agenda - Perceptions Abroad
2010
2010
2011
2011
2011
2011
2011
2012
2012
Advisor to the U.S. Mission to the UN
Author and reporter among the Taliban in Pakistan
Foreign Correspondent in the Middle East and Islamic World
Professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations,
London
Creator of "The 99" Islamic superhero comic series
Former Washington Post correspondent
Program
Delaware candidates for U.S. House of Representatives
400
700
500
National Political Strategists
National Agenda - Girding for Battle
500
Washington Post International Affairs Correspondent
National Agenda - Girding for Battle
400
Political Advertising consultants
National Agenda - Girding for Battle
400
Washington Political Watchdog
Governor of New Jersey
National Agenda - Girding for Battle
National Agenda - Girding for Battle
400
900
Candidates for Governor & Lt. Governor of Delaware
Delaware Debates - Govenor & Lt.
Govenor
400
Delaware candidates for U.S. Senate and U.S. House
Delaware Debates - U.S. House & U.S.
Senate
400
Washington Post Investigative Reporter
2012
Gen. Michael Hayden
Former Director of the CIA and NSA
2012
Robert Grenier
Head of Counterterrorism Center, CIA
2012
Eric C. Anderson
CIA Red Cell leader
2012
Melissa Hathaway
Former adviser to the White House on Cyber Security
2012
Matthew M. Aid
Intelligence Historian and Author on the NSA
2012
Amy Walter
Political Director, ABC News
2012
David Plouffe / Steve
Schmidt
350
400
500
400
400
Inaugural James R. Soles Lecture
National Agenda - Girding for Battle
Dana Priest
Ken Spain
30
Global Agenda - Perceptions Abroad
2012
2012
600
Communication Director & National Spokesman for the National
Republican Congressional Committee
Presidential Campaign Manager & Senior Advisor / International
Political Strategist & Adviser and VP of Edelman
Global Agenda - Spies, Lies & Sneaky
Guys (Digital)
Global Agenda - Spies, Lies & Sneaky
Guys (Digital)
Global Agenda - Spies, Lies & Sneaky
Guys (Digital)
Global Agenda - Spies, Lies & Sneaky
Guys (Digital)
Global Agenda - Spies, Lies & Sneaky
Guys (Digital)
Global Agenda - Spies, Lies & Sneaky
Guys (Digital)
National Agenda - Road to the
Presidency
National Agenda - Road to the
Presidency
National Agenda - Road to the
Presidency
400
500
400
400
400
350
400
350
500
List of Speakers
Updated Mar 6, 2015
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Year Speaker
Title
Estimated
Attendees
(Impact)
Program
2012
Gov. Robert & Kendel
Ehrlich, (CPC Profs
Hoffman & Wilson)
Former Governor & First Lady of Maryland and UD CPC Faculty
members
National Agenda - Road to the
Presidency
400
2012
Karl Rove & Robert Gibbs
Republican Political Strategist & White House Press Secretary /
Presidential Advisers
UD Speaks: Point Counterpoint
2,000
2013
Bill Harlow
2013
Rami Khouri
2013
James Mann
2013
Heather A. Conley
2013
Iris Mwanza
2013
Rebecca MacKinnon
2013
Paul R. Brewer
Professor & CPC Associate Director for Research
2013
David C. Wilson
Interim Associate Dean, Associate Professor, Political Science
2013
Sarah Burd-Sharps
Co-Director, Measure of America, Social Science Research
Council
2013
Michael Dimock
Director, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
2014
Emira Woods
Co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus, the Institute for Policy
Studies
2014
Richard Wike
Director of the Global Attitudes Project, Pew Research Center
2014
Dayna Greenfield
Acting Director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East,
Atlantic Council
2014
Susan Shirk
Chair, 21st Century China Program
2014
Michael Reid
Americas editor of The Economist
2014
Rep. John Carney
Delaware candidate for U.S. House of Representatives
2014
2014
2014
Sen. Chris Coons, Kevin
Wade
Frank Lesser
Peter Hamby
Teddy Goff
2014
Mike McCurry
2014
Stephanie Cutter
2014
Steve Schmidt
2014
Chief Spokesman, CIA
Director, Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International
Affairs at the American University of Beirut
Author-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies
U.S. State Department, Bureau of European and Eurasian
Affairs
Former Chief Operations Officer for the Centre for Infectious
Disease Research in Zambia
Senior Fellow, New America Foundation and former CNN
International Correspondent, China
Global Agenda - America's role in the
World
Global Agenda - America's Role in the
World
Global Agenda - America's Role in the
World
Global Agenda - America's Role in the
World
Global Agenda - America's Role in the
World
Global Agenda - America's Role in the
World
National Agenda - Delaware and the
Nation
National Agenda - Delaware and the
Nation
National Agenda - Delaware and the
Nation
National Agenda - Delaware and the
Nation
Global Agenda - Global Demands,
Regional Responses
Global Agenda - Global Demands,
Regional Responses
Global Agenda - Global Demands,
Regional Responses
Global Agenda - Global Demands,
Regional Responses
Global Agenda - Global Demands,
Regional Responses
Delaware Debates - U.S. House of
Representatives
350
350
350
350
350
350
85
85
85
85
150
150
150
150
150
400
Delaware candidates for U.S. Senate
Delaware Debates - U.S. Senate
400
Former writer, The Colbert Report
CNN Political Reporter
Digital Campaign Director for President Obama
Former White House and State Department Spokesman,
Political Strategist and Distinguished Professor of Public
Theology
Deputy Campaign Manager and Communications Adviser,
Obama campaign
International Political Strategist & Adviser and VP of Edelman
National Agenda - Battle for Congress
National Agenda - Battle for Congress
National Agenda - Battle for Congress
400
400
400
National Agenda - Battle for Congress
400
National Agenda - Battle for Congress
400
National Agenda - Battle for Congress
400
Estimated TOTAL impact
27,670
Notes
Impact estimates based on estimated attendance at each event.
The Center for Political Communication was launched in January, 2010.
Most post-CPC events were organized by the CPC. Some were collaborations with other UD units (Student Life in 2010 & 2012;
CGAS in 2014).
Especially notable speakers are bolded.
National Agenda
Public Opinion Project
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
FOR STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY
Multiple opinion surveys go beyond
traditional “horse race” and popularity polling to
explore how citizens understand key emerging
policy issues and how new technologies
transform the ways they engage with politics.
These projects, led by an interdisciplinary
team of researchers, give students opportunities
for real-world research experiences and expand
UD’s visibility in national media coverage and
policy discussions.
Breaking ground in campaign polling, the
University of Delaware’s National Agenda Public
Opinion Research Initiative combines traditional
survey techniques with innovative methods such
as focus groups, experiments, and behavioral
observation to follow voters through election
cycles and policy debates, observing how they
consume and react to political messages and
media.
★ For scientific and demographic integrity, each
national public opinion survey is a $40,000
enterprise. Multiple surveys are critical to track
rapid changes in internet-fueled
campaigns and debates.
Projects are supervised by
Associate Director for Research, Dr.
Paul R. Brewer.
Illustrative projects:
★
National Survey Shows Public Opposes News
Media Showing Images of ISIS Beheadings (January,
2015)
★
Solid Majority of Delawareans Support Legalizing
Marijuana (October, 2014)
★
National Survey Shows Public Overwhelmingly
Opposes Internet “Fast Lanes” (November, 2014)
★
Nationwide Study: Racial Images Shape Opinion on
Voter ID Laws (October, 2014)
★
Delawareans Rate Their Elected Officials Highly
(October, 2014)
★
National Survey Shows Fox News Viewers are Least
Informed, Most Negative, About Occupy Wall Street
(January, 2012)
★
National Survey Shows Public Is Deeply Divided on
Health Insurance Mandate (June, 2012)
Impact
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
FOR THE NATION
The National Agenda Public Opinion Project at the University of
Delaware has already produced national and international visibility
for the University, the Center and its faculty, centered on here-andnow public policy issues such as Internet neutrality, legalization of
marijuana, voter ID laws, and the role of social media in censoring
images of terrorist acts.
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POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
DELAWARE DEBATES
Since 2010, the Center for Political Communication has initiated and hosted on campus formal, televised
election year debates for the highest offices in Congress and the governorship.
These are the state of Delaware’s only formal face-offs following national-standard political debate rules.
Several have been nationally-televised on C-SPAN and CNN, bringing significant reputation-enhancing
attention to the University. In 2010, the Delaware Debates attracted journalists from around the world, and
were evaluated as having attracted millions of dollars in publicity to UD.
Staging such debates is a major undertaking for the CPC during election years, involving collaboration with
many University departments, and with Delaware public media. Students participate in producing the debates,
including developing questions addressed to the candidates and working with the broadcast team.
The University of Delaware Today
THE CONTEXT FOR THE CPC
The University of Delaware has a great tradition
of excellence, from its founding as a small private
academy in 1743, to the research-intensive,
technologically advanced institution of today.
Our alumni tell our story of achievement, from
our first class, which included three signers of the
Declaration of Independence and one signer of the
U.S. Constitution, to the more than 145,000 living
Blue Hens who are making vital contributions to the
world. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his wife,
Jill, are both UD alumni.
The University received its charter from the State
of Delaware in 1833 and was designated one of the
nation’s historic Land Grant colleges in 1867. Today,
UD is a Land Grant, Sea Grant and Space Grant
institution.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching classifies UD as a research
university with “very high research activity” – a
designation accorded fewer than 3 percent of
U.S. colleges and universities. UD ranks among
the nation’s top 100 universities in federal R&D
support for science and engineering.
A state-assisted, privately governed institution,
UD offers a broad range of degree programs: 4
associate programs, 137 bachelor’s programs, 117
master's programs, 50 doctoral programs and 12 dual
graduate programs through our seven colleges and in
collaboration with more than 60 research centers.
Our student body encompasses nearly 17,000
undergraduates, 3,700 graduate students and 850
students in professional and continuing studies from
across the country and around the globe.
Our distinguished faculty includes internationally
known authors, scientists and artists, among them
Nobel laureates, Guggenheim and Fulbright fellows,
and members of the National Academy of
Engineering, National Academy of Sciences and the
American Association for the Advancement of
Science.
State-of-the-art facilities support UD academic
and public service activities. Our 146-foot coastal
research vessel, Hugh R. Sharp, the most advanced in
the U.S., helps scientists across the region explore the
sea. World-class figure skaters train at our High
Performance Figure Skating Center. Partnerships with
Nemours/A. I. du Pont Hospital for Children,
Christiana Care and Thomas Jefferson University; the
U.S. Army; Winterthur; Longwood Gardens and
Hagley Museum offer unparalleled experiences in
health sciences, defense research, art conservation,
horticulture and history. The University is now
transforming a 272-acre parcel, the site of a former
auto assembly plant, into a science and technology
campus.
Distinguished speaker series, symposia, 21
intercollegiate athletics programs and numerous
intramural and club sports, more than 300 student
organizations, concerts, exhibits, and other arts and
cultural activities enrich campus life.
Thomas Jefferson once described Delaware as a
“jewel” among states due to its strategic location on
the East Coast, halfway between Washington, D.C.,
and New York City. Today, however, the location of
Delaware's flagship university increasingly is invoked
as “halfway between Los Angeles and London.”
A thriving study-abroad program and expanding
international partnerships further enhance our
students' education as global citizens.