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

