October 25, 2012 • Joanna Basile
Notre Dame Political Science Professor David Campbell recently received a grant of more than $300,000 from the Spencer Foundation for a three-year project called “Family Matters: How Home and Family Life Affect Youth Civic Engagement.”
“A fundamental challenge facing every democratic society is to ensure that the citizenry is both politically active and informed,” says Campbell, who also directs the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters.
“My research seeks to shed light on what makes for an active, informed citizenry.”