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An expert on the political implications of growing numbers of non-religious citizens will discuss “godless politics” in a lecture on the �鶹ӰԺ campus next month.

David Campbell, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, will speak about “Godless Politics: The Politics of Secularism in the United States.” The event is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 11, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on campus. 

The event is free and open to the public.

David Campbell

Campbell, the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy at Notre Dame, is the recipient of a Carnegie Fellowship to study the political implications of secularism. He and a collaborating scholar plan to publish the results of their research in a book titled Godless Politics.

Campbell’s most recent book is Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics (with John Green and Quin Monson). He is also the co-author (with Robert Putnam) of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, which The New York Times called “intellectually powerful.”

Campbell is also author of Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life, editor of A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election, and co-editor of Making Civics Count: Citizenship Education for a New Generation.

As an expert on religion, politics and civic engagement, he has appeared in The New York Times, Economist, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, NBC News, CNN, NPR, Fox News and C-SPAN.

His appearance at CU �鶹ӰԺ is sponsored by the .

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How and whether constitutional democracies can balance challenges to public safety and their commitment to individual rights is the topic of a presentation this month by political scientist Ira Katznelson at the �鶹ӰԺ.

Ira Katznelson

The event titled “Fear and Democracy: Reflections on Security and Freedom,” will occur on Thursday, April 27, from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the on the CU �鶹ӰԺ campus.

Katznelson is an Americanist whose work has straddled comparative politics and political theory as well as political and social history. He is the Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University.

His most recent books are Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns (with Andreas Kalyvas), and When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America.

Katznelson is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is president of the Social Science Research Council and past president of the American Political Science Association.

The event, which is free and open to the public is sponsored by the CU �鶹ӰԺ  (CARTSS) and the .

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Four political scientists will offer their insights into the unexpected results of the 2016 elections, and what can we learn from them, in an event titled “The 2016 Elections: What Just Happened?”

The event will take place on Thursday, March 2, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on the �鶹ӰԺ campus.

The four experts who will speak are:

• , professor of government and director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University.
• , professor of political science and chair of the Department of Political Science at University of Denver.
• , associate professor of political science and associate director of the American Politics Research Lab at CU �鶹ӰԺ.
• , associate professor of political science at CU �鶹ӰԺ.

E. Scott Adler, CU �鶹ӰԺ professor of political science and director of the , which is sponsoring the event, has asked the panelists to consider two main sets of questions:

1. How did we end up with this result? What happened in the electorate? Did the campaign matter?
2. How did scholars and pollsters get it so wrong?

Lawless, an expert on women in politics and the choice of running for office, plans to address these questions specifically from the perspective of female candidates and voters.

Masket will discuss election-forecasting models and talk about a baseline of how Clinton or Trump “should” have done as a way to evaluate how they actually did.

Sokhey will discuss patterns of political discussion in the general public as well as the role of religion during the election.  

Wolak will address how macropolitics helps explain this election outcome and why it is difficult for pollsters to foresee these kinds of outcomes.

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