News and Events

• Rooney Center prepares to host inaugural conference: The Change Election?
• God and the Founders published by Cambridge University Press
• Rooney Center Welcomes New Faculty
• Griffin Receives Emerging Scholar Award
• Recent Published Research of Notre Dame faculty and students
• Political Women and American Democracy published by Cambridge
• $10 Million Rooney Foundation Gift Supports Center

Rooney Center Hosts Inaugural Conference (October 2009)

• The Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy hosted its inaugural conference this past October 4-6, 2009. The conference, titled “The Change Election? The 2008 Presidential Election and the Future of American Politics,” featured leading scholars from Notre Dame and other universities across the country. For more information on the conference, including a list of participants and a conference panel schedule, click here.

God and the Founders published by Cambridge University Press (July 2009)

• God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson, by Vincent Phillip Muñoz, was recently published by Cambridge University Press.

Rooney Center Welcomes Two New Faculty Members (June 2009)

• The Rooney Center welcomes two new affiliated faculty members beginning in the 2009-2010 academic year: Geoffrey Layman, a scholar of religion and American politics, and Vincent Phillip Muñoz, a scholar of constitutional law and religious liberty.

Griffin Receives Emerging Scholar Award (May 2009)

• John Griffin was given the Emerging Scholar Award (with Brian Newman) by the Midwest Political Science Association in April 2009.

Recent Published Research of Notre Dame faculty and students (August 2009)

• David Campbell recently published Voice in the Classroom: How an Open Classroom Climate Fosters Political Engagement Among Adolescents in Political Behavior and (with Quin Monson of BYU) The Religion Card: Gay Marriage and the 2004 Election in Public Opinion Quarterly.

• David Nickerson has recently published (with Kevin Arceneaux) Who Is Mobilized To Vote? A Re-Analysis of Eleven Field Experiments in the American Journal of Political Science and Modeling Certainty with Clustered Data: A Comparison of Methods in Political Analysis.

• John Griffin has recently published (with Patrick Flavin) Policy, Preferences, and Participation: Government’s Impact on Democratic Citizenship in the Journal of Politics.

Political Women and American Democracy, edited by Christina Wolbrecht, Karen E. Beckwith, and Lisa Baldez, published by Cambridge University Press (March 2008)

• Political Women and American Democracy contains a series of essays that originated at the May 2006 Program in American Democacy conference of the same name. Edited by conference organizers Christina Wolbrecht, Karen E. Beckwith, and Lisa Baldez, the volume provides a critical synthesis of scholarly research by leading experts in the field.

$10 million Rooney Foundation gift to support Center for American Democracy (March 2008)

• The current Program in American Democracy will be replaced by the new Rooney Center for American Democracy, made possible by a generous gift from the Francis and Kathleen Rooney Foundation. New hires, faculty and graduate student research, and programs for undergraduates will be funded by this exciting new Center. Press Release