American Politics
American politics at Notre Dame empirically analyzes mass political behavior, political institutions, and public policies to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of democracy.
We provide a fruitful, collegial, collaborative intellectual community around questions of political equality, political behavior and public opinion, American political development, political parties and representation, political institutions, and research methods.
The study of American politics has been enriched by the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy. The Rooney Center:
- organizes weekly research workshops for faculty and graduate students
- sponsors seminars and lectures by visiting scholars
- organizes conferences
- provides research grants for students and faculty
We emphasize close interaction between faculty and graduate students. In particular, faculty make special efforts to prepare students for future careers through close mentoring and collaborative research projects.
Graduate students simultaneously specialize in a subfield of American politics and develop a broad foundation in the study of American politics.
Faculty
Peri Arnold
Emeritus Faculty
David Campbell
Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy
David Cortez
Assistant Professor
Darren Davis
Professor
Luis Ricardo Fraga
Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science
Matthew E.K. Hall
Professor
Jeff Harden
Andrew J. McKenna Family Associate Professor
Joshua B. Kaplan
Associate Teaching Professor
Geoffrey C. Layman
Professor
David C. Leege
Emeritus Faculty
Meyer Levy
Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar
Dianne Pinderhughes
Professor
Benjamin Radcliff
Professor
Ricardo Ramírez
Associate Professor
John Roos
Emeritus Faculty
Amir M. Sadeh
Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar
Andrew I. Thompson
Moreau Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Research Associate
Christina Wolbrecht
Professor