Robin Johnson
Host of Heartland PoliticsRobin A. Johnson is a governmental relations, public policy and political consultant. He is an expert on government reform issues and has consulted with numerous local governments on consolidation/merger, public-private partnerships and full-cost accounting of public services. Robin has also helped candidates win elections for the U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, state legislature, judiciary and local government. Robin served as a consultant to the Office of Statewide Performance Review in the Illinois Governor’s Office and is former director of the Illinois Center for Competitive Government, a partnership between the Illinois Comptroller’s Office and the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs at Western Illinois University. Prior to that, he was Director of the Local Government Affairs Division of the Illinois Comptroller’s Office. Robin served on the Board of Directors of the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships (NCPPP) in 1999-2000.
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Paul Embery, a British trade union activist, Labour Party member, and author of “Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class,” provides a perspective from across the pond that includes lessons for American politics. -
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Democratic pollster Brian Stryker, a partner with ALG Research, talks about the Quad Cities’ profile as a blue collar suburban area, voter behavior…
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Robert Blizzard, a partner with Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, shares results from focus groups involving suburban voters similar to…
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Aaron Renn, a leading urban analyst focused on the Midwest, talks about the region’s economic emergence from the Covid pandemic, competing Red and Blue…
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Brian Alexander, author of The Hospital: Life, Death and Dollars in a Small American Town, talks about the larger themes explored in the book and how they…
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Find out on the next Heartland Politics podcast when Larry Bartels, co author of Democracy for Realists, explains voter behavior and the implication for…
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Kal Munis, co-author of a Niskanen Center report, Gone Country: Why Democrats Need to Play in Rural America, and How They Can Do It Again, discusses how…
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What are the implications of the shift from manufacturing to health care jobs in the US?
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Peter Slevin, a contributing writer with The New Yorker magazine, talks about his recent reporting from Iowa and the Carolinas on the future of the…
