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
Snyder Family Mission Professor
Luis Ricardo Fraga
Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science
Matthew E.K. Hall
David A. Potenziani Memorial College Professor of Constitutional Studies
Jeff Harden
Andrew J. McKenna Family Associate Professor
Joshua B. Kaplan
Emeritus Faculty
Geoffrey C. Layman
Professor and Department Chair
Angela McCarthy
Assistant Teaching Professor
Dianne Pinderhughes
Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science
Rachel Porter
Assistant Professor
Benjamin Radcliff
Professor
Ricardo Ramírez
Associate Professor
Erin Rossiter
Nancy Reeves Dreux Assistant Professor of Political Science
Christina Wolbrecht
Professor