{"id":2833,"date":"2015-01-19T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:11:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:11:42","slug":"amy-fried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/amy-fried\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 117: Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine & Blogger for the Bangor Daily News Amy Fried,Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a0117
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0January 17
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Amy Fried, Ph.D.
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine and blogger for the Bangor Daily News\u00a0Amy Fried was born in New York. She chose to go to college in California and graduated with her bachelors degree in Political Science from San Francisco State University. \u00a0She was then off to Minnesota. Here she earned her Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. \u00a0Fried discussed with Stevoe how she decided to make her life’s work Political Science, and how it wasn’t her first area of focus.<\/p>\n

In September of 1997 Fried began teaching as a professor of Political Science at the University of Maine<\/a>. Fried teaches and writes about citizens\u2019 political involvements and values, and on how politicians and government monitor and use public opinion for political and governing purposes.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) in the studio with Maine’s leading political scientist Amy Fried, Ph.D. (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Fried is a member of the advisory committee for the Maine Community Foundation\u2019s Policy Scholars Program, and works with students researching state-level public policy. She is the co-leader of the Maine chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network. She also formerly served as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n

Besides numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, Fried has published two books, Muffled Echoes: Oliver North and the Politics of Public Opinion<\/i> (1997) and Pathways to Polling: Crisis, Cooperation, and the Making of Public Opinion Professions<\/i> (2012).<\/p>\n

In August of 2011, Fried began writing a biweekly column for the Bangor Daily News, called \u201cPollways\u201d.<\/a> <\/b>She loves politics in three ways: as an analytical political scientist, a devoted political junkie and a citizen who believes politics matters for people’s lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods was joined in the studio by professor of Political Science at the University of Maine & Blogger for the Bangor Daily News Amy Fried. Stevoe and Fried discussed Maine’s current tone of politics and activism, as well as University of Maine’s Political Science program. Fried also gave an indepth poli-sci review of Stevoe’s hypothesis he offered in his ed-op regarding insolvent Maine towns. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}