Visiting Speaker Series

The following scholars are scheduled to visit or have presented at the University of Notre Dame through the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy Visiting Speaker 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

Spring 2012

Politics in the Reigns of Saul and David

Paul Abramson (Michigan State University)

Date and Time: Friday, February 10, 2012 — 12:00pm
Place: 131 Decio Hall

Civic Nation: Voluntarism and the Governing of America

Elisabeth Clemens (Univ of Chicago)

Date and Time: Friday, March 2, 2012 — 12:00pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy Hall

Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools

Terry Moe (Stanford University)

Date and Time: Friday, March 9, 2012 — 12:00 to 1:30pm
Place: Remick Commons, Carole Sandner Hall

Title TBA

Jon Shields (Claremont McKenna College)

Date and Time: Friday, April 20, 2012 — 12:00pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy Hall

Fall 2011

Elections and Legitimacy in Afghanistan

Clark Gibson (University of California, San Diego)

Date and Time: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 — 12:00pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy Hall

The Adapted Judicial Mind: Preferences, Norms, and Birth Order on the U.S. Supreme Court

Kevin McGuire (University of North Carolina)

Date and Time: Friday, October 14, 2011 — 12:00pm
Place: 220 Malloy Hall

Voter Mobilization through Friends and Family: A Large Scale Field Experiment on the Social Priming about Political Participation

Chris Mann (University of Miami)

Date and Time: Friday, October 28, 2011 — 12:00pm
Place: 220 Malloy Hall

Why Public Reason?

Stephen Macedo (Princeton University)

Date and Time: Friday, December 9, 2011 — 12:30pm
Place: 201 O’Shaughnessy Hall

Spring 2011

“The Social Origins of Political Behavior: Evidence about the Social Benefits of Political Choices and Ballot Secrecy Perceptions”

Greg Huber, Yale University

Date and Time: Friday, January 28 12:00 noon – 1:30pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Dan Hubert

“The Choosing People: The Puzzling Politics of American Jews”

Ken Wald, University of Florida

Date and Time: Tuesday, February 8 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Dan Hubert

“Men, Women, and Voice: Gender Inequality in Deliberative Participation”

Chris Karpowitz, Brigham Young University

Date and Time: Friday, March 11 11:45am – 1:15pm
Place: 201 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Dan Hubert

Political Parties and Representation of the Poor in the American States

Gerald Wright, Indiana University

Date and Time: Friday, April 15 12:00 noon – 1:30pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Dan Hubert

The Social Citizen: Could You Please Take Out Your Checkbook?

Betsy Sinclair, University of Chicago

Date and Time: Friday, April 29 12:00 noon – 1:30pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Dan Hubert

Fall 2010

“Presidential Signing Statements and Congressional Oversight”

Scott Ainsworth, University of Georgia

Date and Time: Friday, 1 October 2010, 12:00 pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Dan Hubert

“Latino Political Influence: Myths, Realities, and Prospects for the Future”

David Leal, University of Texas at Austin

Date and Time: Friday, 24 September 2010, 12:00 pm
Place: 131 Decio Hall
Contact: Dan Hubert

“Made in America? Pan-ethnic Identification and Political Participation”

Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, Northwestern University

Date and Time: Friday, 17 September 2010, 11:30 am
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Dan Hubert

Spring 2010

State Legislative Institutions and the Calculus of Candidates

Thomas Carsey, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

Date and Time: Friday, 16 April 2010, 12:00pm
Place: 220 Malloy Hall
Contact: Mike Keane

Justice in America: The Separate Realities of Blacks and Whites

Mark Peffley, University of Kentucky

Date and Time: Friday, 9 April 2010, 12:00pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Mike Keane

God’s Lobby: National Religious Advocacy and Public Policy

Allen Hertzke, University of Oklahoma

Date and Time: Friday, 26 March 2010, 12:00pm
Place: 107 Pasquerilla Center
Contact: Mike Keane

Chief Executive: Centralization, Politicization, and Bureaucratic Control

Andrew Rudalevige, Dickinson College

Date and Time: Friday, 5 March 2010, 12:00pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Mike Keane

The Effect of Ballot Designs and Voting Systems on Voting Errors

Michael Hanmer, University of Maryland

Date and Time: Friday, 19 February 2010, 12:00pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Mike Keane

Women of the World: A Longitudinal Model of Women’s Political Representation

Pamela Paxton, Ohio State University

Date and Time: Friday, 29 January 2010, 12:00pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Mike Keane

Fall 2009

Going Negative: Attack Advertising in State Supreme Court Elections

Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University

Date and Time: Friday, 13 November 2009, 12:00pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Mike Keane

Judicial Review and Democratic Failure

Justin Fox, Yale University

Date and Time: Friday, 30 October 2009, 12:00pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy
Contact: Mike Keane

The Evolution of Policy: Congress and the Timing and Degree of Policy Change

E. Scott Adler, University of Colorado – Boulder

Date and Time: Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:00pm
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: Mike Keane

Spring 2009

Government Surveillance and Political Participation in the United States: The Distinct Roles of Anger and Anxiety

Brian Krueger, University of Rhode Island

Date and Time: Friday, 6 March 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: David Campbell

Statistical Analysis of Causal Mechanisms

Kosuke Imai, Princeton University

Date and Time: Friday, 27 February 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: David Campbell

Matching for Causal Inference without Balance Checking

Gary King, Harvard University

Date and Time: Thursday, 29 January 2009, 12:00 p.m.
Place: Hesburgh Center for International Studies C-104/C-105
Contact: David Campbell

Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principle, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate

Frances Lee, University of Maryland

Date and Time: Friday, 23 January 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Place: 119 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Contact: David Campbell

Fall 2008

Gauging the God Gap: Why Worship Attendance Matters at the Ballot Box

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

Date and Time: Friday, 10 October 2008, 11:45 a.m.
Place: Grace Hall, Lower Level
Contact: David Campbell