Workshops

The Program in American Democracy Workshops provide an opportunity for Notre Dame faculty and graduate students, as well as occasional visitors, to present in-progress research on American politics and receive input and feedback in a casual setting. Workshops are held on Fridays at 3 p.m. Snacks are served! Exact dates and places are announced as they become available. If you have questions or would like to present a paper, please contact workshop coordinator Mike Keane or Program director Christina Wolbrecht.

Upcoming Workshops

Issue Importance, Campaign Advertising, and Voter Turnout in the 2004 General Election

Lauren Deschamps (University of Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 2 May, 11:30 a.m. PIZZA WILL BE SERVED!
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall

 

Previous Workshops

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

Sidney Milkis (University of Virginia)

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

State Government Performance and Citizen Trust

Anne Baker (University of Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 18 April, 3 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall

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

Life Satisfaction, Turnout, and Vote Choice: Happiness as the Independent Variable

Michael Keane and Patrick Flavin (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 22 February 2008, 3 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall

Partisan Hearts, Minds, and Souls: Candidate Religion and the Activation of Partisan Voting

David Campbell (University of Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 15 February 2008, 3 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall

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

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

Commonality, Conflict, and their Consequences: The Roots of Participatory Behavior in Multiracial Contexts

Mike Keane (University of Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 19 October 2007, 3:00 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall

Resource Allocation, Washington Work, and Member Home Styles

David C.W. Parker (University of Indiana, South Bend)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 28 September, 3 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall

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

Ismael White (University of Texas at Austin)

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

The Theory of Educational Relativity: Reconsidering Education's Relationship to Democratic Citizenship

David Campbell (University of Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 14 September 2007, 3 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall

The Help America Vote Act: A Misnomer?

Anne Baker (University of Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 21 September, 3 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall

Political Parties and Democracy: The Case of the American South

John Griffin (University of Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 7 September 2007, 3 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall

Broken Fire Alarms: Exploring Constituency Knowledge of Roll Calls

Joshua D. Clinton (Princeton)

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

Modeling Campaign Effects and Participation Inequality

Peter Wielhouwer (Western Michigan)

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

Sex, Party, and the Representation of Women

John Griffin (Notre Dame), Brian Newman (Pepperdine), and Christina Wolbrecht (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 23 February 2007, 3:30 p.m. (NOTE DELAYED START)
  • Place: 116 O'Shaughnessy Hall

Democratic Competition and Public Opinion

James Druckman (Northwestern)

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

A Latent Class Analysis of Latino National Identity

Gia Barboza (Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 16 February 2007, 3 p.m.
  • Place: 116 O'Shaughnessy Hall

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

Results from the Field in 2006

David Nickerson (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 26 January 2007, 3 p.m.
  • Place: 116 O'Shaughnessy Hall

Deliberation in the Classroom: Political Discussion and Adolescents' Political Engagement

David Campbell (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 15 December 2006, 1:00 a.m. LUNCH SERVED
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall

Explaining Party Change

Christina Wolbrecht (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 1 December 2006, 3:00 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy Hall

The Foreign Policy Disconnect

Benjamin Page (Northwestern University)

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

Attitudinal Contagion Among First Year College Students

David Nickerson (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 10 November 2006, 3:00 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy

Policy Success and Political Participation

Pat Flavin (Notre Dame) and John Griffin (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 3 November 2006, 3:00 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy

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

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

Barry Burden (Wisconsin)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 13 October 2006, 3:00 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy

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

Who Do Effective Legislators Represent?

Mike Keane (Notre Dame) and John Griffin (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 29 September 2006, 3:00 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy

Analyzing Clustered Data

David Nickerson (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: Friday, 15 September 2006, 3:00 p.m.
  • Place: 107 O'Shaughnessy

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

Jeff Jenkins (Northwestern)

  • Date and Time: noon, Friday, 28 April 2006
  • Place: 106 O'Shaughnessy

The Discuss List and Agenda Setting on the Supreme Court

Ryan Schoen (George Washington University)

  • Date and Time: noon, Friday, 7 April 2006
  • Place: 106 O'Shaughnessy

Catholics, Congress, and Congruence

Patrick Flavin (Notre Dame) and Michael Keane (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: noon, Friday, 31 March 2006
  • Place: 106 O'Shaughnessy

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: 11:30 a.m., Friday, 24 March 2006
  • Place: 106 O'Shaughnessy

Female Role Models and Political Engagement Among Adolescents

David E. Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: noon, Friday, 17 February 2006
  • Place: 106 O'Shaughnessy

Preliminary Thoughts on Partisan Policy Making

David Nickerson (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: noon, Friday, 10 February 2006
  • Place: 106 O'Shaughnessy

Race and the Rewards of Voting

John Griffin (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: noon, Friday, 3 February 2006
  • Place: 106 O'Shaughnessy

Who is Mobilized to Vote?

David Nickerson (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: noon, Friday, 27 January 2006
  • Place: 106 O'Shaughnessy

Learning about Race, Thinking about Politics: Black American Perspectives on Political Trust

Shayla Nunnally (Duke)

  • Date and Time: 3:30 p.m., Friday, 25 February 2005
  • Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy

Candidate Divergence and Campaign Contributions

Daniel Bergan (Northwestern)

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

Just How Addictive is Voting and Why?

David Nickerson (Yale)

  • Date and Time: 3:30 p.m., Friday, 5 November 2004
  • Place: 117 O'Shaughnessy

Hail to the Parties: An Examination of Nineteenth Century Presidential Power

Christopher Rodriguez (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: 3:30 p.m., Friday, 8 October 2004
  • Place: 117 O'Shaughnessy

Race, Political Inequality, and Pluralism

John D. Griffin (Notre Dame) and Brian Newman (Pepperdine)

  • Date and Time: 3:30 p.m., Friday, 17 September 2004
  • Place: 117 O'Shaughnessy

Participation in Context: How Communities and Schools Shape Civic Engagement

David E. Campbell (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: 3:30 p.m., Friday, 10 October 2003
  • Place: 117 O'Shaughnessy

Why Campaigns Matter: Perceptions, Decisions, and Outcomes in Presidential Elections (see also APSA paper)

Mitch Sanders (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: 11:30 a.m., Friday, 5 September 2003
  • Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy
  • Lunch provided

The Distributive Patterns of Crime Control Funding: A Comparative State Analysis of Grant Distribution Under The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 And The Violent Crime Control And Law Enforcement Act of 1994

Pamela Schaal (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: 3:30 p.m., Friday, 28 March 2003
  • Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy

It's About Time: Political Mobilization and Demobilization in American Churches

Dave Campbell (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: 3:30 p.m., Friday, 28 February 2003
  • Place: O'Shaughnessy 117

Presidents, Positions, and Racial Inclusion: Coalition-Management from Rutherford B. Hayes to George W. Bush

Chris Rodriguez (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: 3:30 p.m., Friday, 21 February 2003
  • Place: Hesburgh C-102

Ambition and Legislative Organization

John Griffin (Notre Dame)

  • Date and Time: 3:30 p.m., Friday, 14 February 2003
  • Place: 119 O'Shaughnessy

Incorporating Women Voters After Suffrage: New Answers to Old Questions

Christina Wolbrecht (Notre Dame) and J. Kevin Corder (Western Michigan)

  • Date and Time: 3 p.m., Friday, 24 January 2003
  • Place: Hesburgh C102