Speaker Series

The following scholars are scheduled to visit the University of Notre Dame through the Program in American Democracy Speakers Series.

A number of these presentations, as well as presentations by Notre Dame faculty and graduate students, are hosted through our on-going workshop series. »Workshops

Upcoming Speakers

The Modern Presidency, Social Movements, and the Administrative State: Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Movement (NB: PDF is uncorrected chapter proofs)

Sidney Milkis, University of Virginia

Date and Time: Friday, 25 April 2008, 3 p.m.
Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

TITLE TBA

John Green, University of Akron
Cosponsored with the Center for the Study of Religion & Society

Date and Time: Friday, 10 October 2008, time TBA
Place: TBA
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Previous Speakers

Latinos, Blacks, and Black Latinos: Competition, Cooperation, or Indifference?

Matt A. Barreto, University of Washington

Date and Time: Friday, 28 March 2008, 3 p.m.
Place: C-103 Hesburgh Center
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Immigrants, Minorities and the Politics of Spatial Context in the U.S.

Lorrie Frasure, University of California, Los Angeles

Date and Time: Friday, 8 February 2008, 3 p.m.
Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Wedge Politics: The Structure and Function of Racial Group Cues in American Politics

Vincent Hutchings , University of Michigan

Date and Time: Friday, 25 January 2008, 3 p.m.
Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: John Griffin

Politics in Black and White: Identifying the Role of Black Political Elites in Shaping Black Public Opinion

Ismail White, University of Texas at Austin

Date and Time: Friday, 5 October 2007, 3 p.m.
Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Broken Fire Alarms: Exploring Constituency Knowledge of Roll Calls

Joshua D. Clinton, Princeton University

Date and Time: Friday, 4 May 2007, 3 p.m.
Place: 116 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Modeling Campaign Effects and Participation Inequality

Peter Wielhouwer, Western Michigan University

Date and Time: Friday, 27 April 2007, 3 p.m.
Place: 116 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Ghettos, Government, and God: The Politics of Faith-Based Initiatives in Cities

Michael Owens, Emory University

Date and Time: Friday, 20 April 2007, 3 p.m.
Place: 117 DeBartolo
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Partisan Signals and Democratic Accountability: An Analysis of State Supreme Court Abortion Decisions

Brandice Canes-Wrone, Princeton University

Date and Time: Wednesday, 11 April 2007, 3 p.m.
Place: 318 DeBartolo
Contact: John Griffin

Three Myths about Public Opinion on Taxes

Andrea Campbell, M.I.T.

Date and Time: Friday, 30 March 2007, 3 p.m.
Place: 117 DeBartolo
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Democratic Competition and Public Opinion

James Druckman, Northwestern University

Date and Time: Friday, 2 March 2007, 3 p.m.
Place: 116 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Towards a Relational Conception of Constitutional War Powers

Mariah Zeisberg, University of Michigan

Date and Time: Friday, 23 March 2007, 3 p.m.
Place: C-103 Hesburgh
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Beyond the Self: Incorporating Non-Self-Interested Considerations into the Paradox of Participation

Cindy Kam, University of California, Davis

Date and Time: Friday, 2 February 2007, 3 p.m.
Place: 116 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

The Foreign Policy Disconnect

Benjamin Page, Northwestern University

Date and Time: Friday, 17 November 2006, 3:00 p.m.
Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: John Griffin

Social Desirability Effects and Support for a Female American President

Matthew Streb, Northern Illinois University

Date and Time: Friday, 27 October 2006, 3:00 p.m.
Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Learning about the President: Polarization, Attitude Change, and
Incumbent Reelection

Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin

Date and Time: Friday, 13 October 2006, 3:00 p.m.
Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: John Griffin

Divided We Quarrel: The Politics of Congressional Investigation, 1947-2000

David Parker, Indiana University-South Bend

Date and Time:Friday, 22 September 2006, 3:00 p.m.
Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Agency Problems and Electoral Institutions: The 17th Amendment and Representation in the Senate

Jeff Jenkins (Northwestern)

Date and Time: Friday, 28 April 2006, noon
Place: 106 O'Shaughnessy
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

The Discuss List and Agenda Setting on the Supreme Court

Ryan Schoen (George Washington University)

Date and Time: Friday, 7 April 2006, noon
Place: 106 O'Shaughnessy
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Inter-Party Differences and Intra-Party Unity: Explaining the Decline
and Resurgence of Mass Partisanship in the United States

Jeff Grynaviski (University of Chicago)

Date and Time: Friday, 24 March 2006, 11:30 a.m.
Place: 106 O'Shaughnessy
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Candidate Divergence and Campaign Contributions

Daniel Bergan (Northwestern)

Date and Time: 3:30 p.m., Friday, 28 January 2005
Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Party, Constituency, and Governance in Congress

John Aldrich, Duke University

Date and Time: Thursday, 24 March 2005, 4:00 p.m.
Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: John Griffin

Sectional Parties, Divided Business

Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University

Date and Time: Friday, 18 March 2005, 1:30 p.m.
Place: C102 Hesburgh Center
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Impact of Media Market Structure on U.S. Politics

Jim Synder, Massachusetts Institute for Technology

Date and Time: Friday, 18 February 2005, 1:30 p.m.
Place: C102 Hesburgh Center
Contact: John Griffin

Information and Public Policy in America

Bryan Jones, University of Washington

Date and Time: Friday, 11 February 2005, 1:30 p.m.
Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Balancing Competing Interests in American Regional Government

Elizabeth Gerber, University of Michigan

Date and Time: Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 3:30 p.m.
Place: C102 Hesburgh Center
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Negativity, Presidential Campaigns, and Democracy: What Happened in 1988?

John Geer, Vanderbilt University

Date and Time: Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 3:30 p.m.
Place: DeBartolo 102
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

School Vouchers: How Effective are They?

Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
Main sponsor: Institute for Educational Initiatives

Date and Time: Friday, 1 October 2004, 3:00 p.m.
Place: Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Contact: Fr. Timothy Scully, C.S.C.

Presidents and Politicization: The Case of the Institutional Presidency

David Lewis, Princeton University

Date and Time: Friday, 26 March 2004, 11:30 a.m.
Place: Hesburgh C-102
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

In-Your-Face Politics: The Effects of Televised Political Conflict on Political Legitimacy

Diana Mutz, University of Pennsylvania

Date and Time: Friday, 20 February 2004, 11:30 a.m.
Place: Hesburgh C-102
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Anti-Intellectualism in the Plebiscitary Presidency: A Conservative Populism?

Colleen J. Shogan, George Mason University

Date and Time: Friday, 30 January 2004, 11:30 a.m.
Place: Hesburgh C-102
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Party Polarization in the Post WWII Era: A Two Period Electoral Interpretation

David Brady, Stanford University

Date and Time: Friday, 14 November 2003, 3 p.m.
Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

HIV and AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Life, Death and Black Politics

Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago
Provost's Distinguished Women's Lecturer

Date and Time: Thursday, 6 November 2003, 4 p.m.
Place: Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Deviance as Resistance: A New Black Politics

Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago
Provost's Distinguished Women's Lecturer

Date and Time: Friday, 7 November 2003, 11:30 a.m.
Place: Hesburgh C-102
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Putting Race in Context: Identifying the Environmental Determinants of Black Racial Attitudes

Claudine Gay, Stanford University

Date and Time: Friday, 21 March 2003, 12 noon
Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Constitutional Interpretation as Constitutional Maintenance in a Constitutional Democracy

Walter Murphy, Princeton University
Co-sponsored with the Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Chair of Political Science and Law

Date and Time: 11 September 2002, 1:30 p.m.
Place: Court Room, Law School
Contact: Donald Kommers

(Un)Covering Gendered Policymaking: Individuals, Interactions, and Institutions

Lyn Kathlene, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Date and Time: Thursday, April 11, 2002, 4 p.m.
Place: DeBartolo 214
Contact: Christina Wolbrecht

Communities by Design (video and discussion)