The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $292,287 project grant titled "Organizations in a Post-Liberal World: A Cross-National Investigation into the Changing Scales, Strategies, and Missions of NGOs" to Princeton University's Office of Research and Project Administration. This 2-year grant, funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), aims to investigate how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are navigating political, economic, cultural,...
This Project Grant award of $100,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a research project to study ethical research practices for investigators working in armed conflict zones. The project, titled "Ethical and Responsible Social Science Research in Armed Conflict Contexts," aims to map existing knowledge about the ethics of research in conflict settings, document current practices for research...
This Project Grant award of $206,574.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research on the legal characteristics and governance of international organizations. The principal investigator at the American Bar Foundation will conduct a comprehensive analysis of the charters and legal documents that establish these organizations, identifying key features such as voting rules, budgeting processes, immunities, and...
This $143,126 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at Macalester College to study how the growing scale and organization of scientific knowledge impacts the pace of scientific discovery. The project will apply topological data analysis techniques to bibliometric and grant payment data to examine concept...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $200,000 to the University of Chicago to conduct collaborative research on how organizations have sought to strengthen governance, build trust, and engage stakeholders from the end of World War I to present day. The interdisciplinary research team will examine campaigns to create, reform, transform, or abolish international organizations, as...
This $216,778 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study to assess how the design of transitional justice institutions in post-conflict and post-authoritarian countries affects public opinion and long-term national outcomes like regime type and conflict recurrence. The research team will employ a mixed-methods approach, combining survey experiments in Colombia,...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota, through its Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, was awarded a $249,119 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The 3-year grant, which commenced on September 1, 2023, will support collaborative research on how the increasing "burden of knowledge" required for scientific progress has slowed the pace...
This $101,769 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the "Subnational Nonstate Actor Governance (SNAG) Project". The project aims to develop new measurement techniques and a public dataset to track territorial control by different conflict belligerents within local areas over time. The researchers will use machine learning and natural language processing to extract relevant information...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $350,000 is funding a research project at the University of Chicago to investigate the role of networks in influencing the outcomes of interventions across various domains, such as education, marketing, and tax decisions. The project will focus on developing new randomized experimental methods and open-source software to enable robust inference of network effects and quantify...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $200,000 awarded on February 1, 2022 will fund research to gather and analyze survey data on citizen perspectives regarding peace, security, and human rights in a post-conflict environment. Under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the University of Massachusetts will field three public opinion surveys in a post-conflict country using random domain intercept technology to collect anonymous samples. The...