Project Grant 2127913

The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $266,795 project grant to Princeton University from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2024 to support research titled "Collaborative Research: Charismatic Politicians, Weak Parties, and the Disruption of Democracy." Under this award, Princeton University will conduct research contributing to the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program supports basic research...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant, under CFDA 47.075 "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences", provides $261,234 in funding for a 3-year research project at Duke University. The project aims to investigate the impact of social movements on firm performance, including production, profits, and stock prices. The research consists of three key components: 1) constructing a novel dataset of firms with contracts to organizations...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan, doing business as the University of Michigan, to conduct research on "Electoral Congruence Across Institutions: A Comparative Study and Improved Data Infrastructure." The research team will analyze data on election results and economic policies from democracies around the world to improve understanding of how the election of...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to Vanderbilt University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The award will support research exploring civic participation and sustainable democracy in the Northwestern United States through 2024. Specifically, the grant will fund interviews, participant observation, and archival analysis of community-based social movements over the past 40 years across rural, urban and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under CFDA 47.075 (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) will provide $200,000 in funding to the University of Chicago to conduct collaborative research examining how organizations have sought to resolve international crises and strengthen governance and trust globally. The research will trace efforts from the end of World War I to the present, drawing on history, international relations, sociology, and political science to understand the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $242,570 to the President and Board of Trustees of Santa Clara College to conduct research on differences in co-authorship patterns across a global landscape. The study aims to understand how the collaborative context affects scientific outcomes differently for scientists in various categories, focusing on the role of network structure in scientific...

This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund an early career scientist's ethnographic research on social determinants of knowledge production. Under the sponsorship of researchers at Harvard University and Arizona State University, the grant recipient will conduct comparative multi-site ethnography across regional police departments and nonprofits. Through observations, document analysis, and...

The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $143,000 project grant to support research titled "Women’s Political Participation in a Transitioning Democracy" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in the social sciences through funding research that contributes to scientific understanding and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to New York University (NYU) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The purpose of this 4-year Research Coordination Network (RCN) project is to enable knowledge exchange, new collaborations, and synthesis of insights on research topics surrounding democracy in the networked information era. The RCN will facilitate interdisciplinary engagement among scholars in fields like political...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $400,000 to William Marsh Rice University to investigate how and when scientists and technical experts have influenced national decisions related to science, technology, and innovation (STI), such as research security, science education, and public health. The research aims to develop new methods for identifying and measuring expert influence on STI...