This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $115,272 to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research investigating the effects of democratic governance on public service provision, long-term economic growth, and citizen well-being. The project will digitize a unique historical dataset on democratic transitions in local governments and use quasi-random variation in elected versus appointed...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research to investigate the relationship between individuals' interpretations of religious prescriptions and their political attitudes, values, and behavior in multiple countries. The $500,000 award to the Regents of the University of Michigan will be used to develop and administer original public opinion surveys to collect data on...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $220,813 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund the BUILD AND BROADEN: STRENGTHENING SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN project from Oct 1, 2021 through Mar 31, 2024. The project aims to initiate a collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico to collect,...
This $249,998 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research at The Johns Hopkins University to investigate the roles of electoral institutions and political geography in shaping gender gaps in voter turnout and preferences in rich democracies. The project aims to challenge established narratives about women's political behavior after suffrage by developing a new framework to explain...
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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $450,000 to the University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants to study the link between partisanship and inventive activity. The project will develop new data linking voter registration records with individual patent inventors and academic researchers to comprehensively describe...
This $899,815 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the 2024 Cooperative Election Study (CES). The CES is a collaborative research effort involving over 50 university teams across the United States that designs and fields a large, nationally representative survey of at least 50,000 American adults. The survey data collected will measure demographics, opinions, attitudes, and voting behavior in...
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) was awarded a $191,599 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program. The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "Economic Downturns, Global Pandemics and Parliamentary Elections" from February 2021 through January 2023. The project aims to contribute to scientific understanding of how economic crises and public health emergencies impact parliamentary...
This $183,720 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a collaborative research project at Pennsylvania State University to track citizens' attitudes toward a judicial reform effort involving the direct election of judges. The project aims to disentangle theories about the determinants of public support for judicial institutions, evaluate how the electoral connection affects citizens' legal attitudes...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $200,000 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to support rapid collection of social media data in key election contexts through July 2023. The university will collect social media data from candidates' public accounts and related background characteristics for elections in...