David Campbell
David Campbell (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002) is the John Cardinal OHara, C.S.C. Associate Professor of Political Science, as well as a research fellow with the Institute for Educational Initiatives. His 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 association's annual meeting. He is currently collaborating with Robert Putnam on a study of religion's changing role in American civic life.
Advising specialties:
Graduate programs in political science and public policy
Research and teaching interests:
American politics; political participation; religion and politics; and education policy
Contact Information
Email: Dave_Campbell@nd.edu
Office: 422 Decio Faculty Hall
Phone: (574) 631-7809
Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556