Faculty of the Program in American Democracy

Peri E. Arnold

Professor (BA, Roosevelt U.; Ph.D., Chicago, 1972)

Professor Arnold specializes in the American presidency, administrative organization and its development, and policy formation. His book, Making the Managerial Presidency (1st edition, Princeton, 2nd edition, Kansas), won the 1989 Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration. He has published many articles and book chapters on the presidency and public administration, receiving the American Society of Public Administration's 1996 Marshall Dimock Award for an article published in Public Administration Review. His current work focuses on the presidency of the Progressive era.

Research and Teaching Interests

The development of the American presidency and executive branch politics, public policy, and public administration

• Office: 418 Decio Hall
• Phone: 574-631-7430
• E-mail: Arnold.1@nd.edu

Louis J. Ayala

Assistant Professor (BA, Princeton; PhD, Stanford, 2001)

Professor Ayala works in the area of American Politics and Public Policy. He specializes in research on political participation, Congress, and democratic political theory.

Research and Teaching Interests

American political behavior

• Office: 433 Decio Hall
• Phone: 574-631-3807
• E-mail: ayala.9@nd.edu

Sotirios A. Barber

Professor (BA, Illinois; Ph.D., Chicago, 1973)

Professor Barber combines interests in the American constitution and political theory. He is the author of The Constitution and the Delegation of Congressional Power (Chicago), On What the Constitution Means (Johns Hopkins), The Constitution of Judicial Power (Johns Hopkins), and numerous articles in constitutional theory.

• Office: 440 Decio Hall
• Phone: 574-631-6197 or at home at 773-324-2308
• E-mail: Sotirios.A.Barber.1@nd.edu

David Campbell

John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C. Associate Professor; Fellow, Institute for Educational Initiatives (BA, Brigham Young; PhD, Harvard, 2002)

Campbell's recent book Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life (Princeton University Press) demonstrates how communities foster civic norms, and how civic norms adopted in adolescence can lead to a lifetime of civic engagement. He is also the editor of A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election (Brookings Institution), a co-author of The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools, and Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Have Undermined Citizenship and What We Can Do About It, as well as co-editor of Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education (all Brookings). In addition to these books, he has published articles in the Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, American Politics Research, Education Next, and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He has won awards from the American Political Science Association for the best doctoral dissertation in American politics, the best paper on elections and voting, and (twice) for the best paper on religion and politics at the associations annual meeting. He is currently collaborating with Robert Putnam on a study of religions changing role in American civic life.

Research and Teaching Interests

American politics, political participation, religion and politics, and education policy

• Office: 422 Decio Hall
• Phone: 574-631-7809
• E-mail: Campbell.91@nd.edu
• Webpage: http://www.nd.edu/~dcampbe4

Darren Davis

Professor (PhD, University of Houston, 1994)

Davis is a leading and nationally recognized scholar in public opinion, elections and voting behavior, political psychology, research methods and statistics, and racial politics. Professor Davis is the author of Negative Liberty: Public Opinion and the Terrorist Attacks on America (Russell Sage Foundation), which examines citizens’ perceptions of threat and vulnerability on the tradeoffs between democratic values and security following the September 11 terrorist attacks. His research has been published in the most prestigious journals in political science, such as The American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and Political Behavior. He has also served on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Research Quarterly. Professor Davis received the Emerging Scholar Award, which recognizes the top scholar within 10 years of Ph. D., from the Public Opinion and Elections Section of the American Political Science Association. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and The Russell Sage Foundation. He also served as an elected member of the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research). Professor Davis is currently working on the political and social consequences of fear, social desirability (political correctness), stereotype threat, the measurement of racial attitudes, perceptions of citizenship, political tolerance, and the social-psychology of African American political attitudes and behavior.

Research and Teaching Interests

American Politics, Political and Social Psychology; Political Behavior; Public Opinion; Research Methods; and Race and Politics

• Office: 446 Decio Hall
• Phone: 574-631-XXXX
• E-mail: Darren.W.Davis.240@nd.edu

John D. Griffin

Assistant Professor (BA, Boston College; JD, University of Colorado School of Law; PhD, Duke University, 2002)

Professor Griffin specializes in the study of political equality within American political institutions, particularly the U.S. Congress.  He is the co-author of Who Wins? Race and Political Equality in America, which is forthcoming at University of Chicago Press.  His work also has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and several edited volumes.  With John Aldrich, he is writing a book on the failure of political representation in the American South.

Research and Teaching Interests

American Institutions, Representation, Political Parties, and Positive Theory

• Office: 417 Decio Hall
• Phone: 574-631-7659
• E-mail: John.Griffin@odnss.com
• Webpage: http://www.nd.edu/~alfac/griffin

Rodney E. Hero

Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy (BS, Florida State; PhD, Purdue, 1980)

Professor Hero specializes in U.S. democracy and politics, especially as viewed through the analytical lenses of Latino and Ethnic/Minority Politics, State/Urban politics, and Federalism. He has published a number of research articles on these topics. His book, Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-tiered Pluralism (Temple, 1992), received the American Political Science Association's 1993 Ralph J. Bunche Award ("best scholarly work in political science published in the previous year which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.") He also authored Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics (Oxford, 1998), which was selected for the American Political Science Association's 1999 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award ("best book published in 1998 on government, politics, or international affairs"). He has served on the editorial boards of political science journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Political Research Quarterly. He has also served as an officer in several major political science associations, including serving as President of the Western Political Science Association in 1999-2000. He has previously taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Arizona State University, and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Research and Teaching Interests

American politics, Latino and ethnic/minority politics, state/urban politics and federalism

• Office: 426 Decio Hall
• Phone: 574-631-7281
• E-mail: Hero.1@nd.edu

Christina Wolbrecht

Associate Professor (BA, Pacific Lutheran U.; PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, 1997)

Professor Wolbrecht specializes in American politics, political parties, interest groups, mass behavior, and gender politics. Her book, The Politics of Women's Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change (Princeton, 2000), received the 2001 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association. She is currently engaged in collaborative projects using new ecological inference techniques to investigate women's voting behavior after suffrage, examining the impact of female role models on the political engagement of women and girls, evaluating the quality of women's representation, and (solely) linking agenda change and party realignment.

Research and Teaching Interests

American politics, political parties, interest groups, mass behavior, and gender politics

• Office: 442 Decio Hall
• Phone: 574-631-3836
• E-mail: Wolbrecht.1@nd.edu
• Webpage: http://www.nd.edu/~cwolbrec

Michael P. Zuckert

Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor (BA, Cornell; PhD, Chicago, 1974)

Professor Zuckert works in political philosophy, American constitutional law and theory, and American political thought. He has published Natural Rights and the New Republicanism (Princeton) and The Natural Rights Republic (Notre Dame), which has been named an Outstanding Book for 1997 by Choice Magazine, as well as many articles on a variety of topics, including George Orwell, Plato's Apology, Shakespeare, and contemporary liberal theory. He is currently completing a book on the American founding, A System Without a Precedent, and has been commissioned to write the volume on John Rawls for a new series on Twentieth Century Political Philosophy. He co-authored and co-produced the public radio series Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson: A Nine Part Drama for the Radio and was senior scholar for Liberty! a six hour public television series on the American Revolution. He has received grants from NEH, the Woodrow Wilson Center, Eart Foundation and NSF, and has taught at Carleton College, Cornell University, Claremont Men's College, Fordham University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

• Office: 450 Decio Hall
• Phone: 574-631-8050
• E-mail: Zuckert.1@nd.edu