This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totaling $198,693 will fund research conceptualizing, measuring, and analyzing religious fundamentalism. The University of Maryland, College Park will conduct a full-scale survey of over 3,300 adults from contrasting religious groups to evaluate similarities and differences in fundamentalist beliefs and attitudes. Researchers will develop a standardized fundamentalism scale to gauge...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Regents of the University of Michigan to support U.S. participation in the 8th wave of the World Values Survey (WVS). This survey, initiated in 1981 with substantial U.S. leadership, collects data on mass values and attitudes from over 90 countries, enabling cross-national analyses of the impact of economic and technological change on human...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $256,408 to The Pennsylvania State University to conduct collaborative research on local government officials and the management of religion-state relationships. The research will produce the first empirical portrait of how over 2,500 elected and appointed local officials across...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $413,627 Project Grant to Michigan State University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) for a research project titled "Collaborative Research: Investigating the Philosophical Commitments of University Scientists Across Disciplines." The three-year award beginning August 1, 2022 will support an empirical study of the philosophical commitments of scientists across a broad range of academic...
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...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $509,806 to the University of Michigan to investigate the psychological characteristic of "self-promotive interdependence". This form of social motivation reflects how people can be driven to achieve goals and rewards, but see their success as primarily important for supporting their families and communities rather than just individual...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $197,047 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The grant funds a 2-year research project to develop the Global Surveillance and Censorship Scores (GSCS) database. The project will utilize mixed methods to collect quantitative and qualitative historical and contemporary data on state surveillance and censorship practices. The resulting dataset will...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will provide $200,000 to support a comparative study of migrant communities and their political impacts. The research project will employ a mixed-methods approach, including online surveys of at least 4,000 political migrants, 100 in-depth interviews, and focus groups to examine how political emigrants interact with the political landscapes of their host...
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 these connections, with a focus on how citizens' views on democracy, governance, and women's rights are influenced by their religious understandings. The project aims to address gaps in the existing literature by measuring distinct dimensions of "illiberalism-liberalism" in religious interpretations and analyzing how these relate to important political and social orientations. The research will be conducted from August 2024 to July 2026 using the principal investigator's expertise in cross-national survey methods and collaborations with local partners in the study countries.