This Project Grant award for $500,000.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program is supporting the development and evaluation of a toolkit to engage youth in data-driven civic innovation. The project aims to create a suite of data and technology tools to empower youth-led community engagement, strengthen social cohesion, and support youth mental health and wellbeing. Key activities include co-designing tools for community...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $400,000 to Princeton University to engage, attract, and retain a diverse array of scholars, particularly women, in the subdiscipline of political methodology. The key objectives are to: 1) provide excellent methods education for undergraduate students, 2) fund a women's conference in political methodology, 3) support women to attend events and...
This Project Grant award of $420,103 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research that develops a model to explain how people judge public events like rallies and marches. The project tests theoretical mechanisms related to participants' social alliances, the event's alignment with observers' values and beliefs, and preferences for order and stability to predict responses to collective actions. A series of experimental...
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...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,039 to the University of Colorado to conduct a longitudinal study on the emotional adjustment and psychological health of diverse emerging adult students before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aims to use remote-based surveys and experience-sampling methods to examine how social isolation, emotion regulation...
This Project Grant award of $183,720.00 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support a collaborative research project at Pennsylvania State University. The research tracks citizens' attitudes toward a judicial reform effort involving the direct election of over 7,000 judicial positions, and evaluates the impact on judicial legitimacy, separation of powers, economic development, and international relations. The project will...
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...
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...