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Gee! I';ve Never Spent $5.5 Million Before: 1. The Six Fallacies of NSF Proposal Writing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Russell Dalton  and
Randolph Siverson
Russell Dalton
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Randolph Siverson
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 31 , Issue 1: 30th Anniversary Issue , March 1998 , pp. 74 - 76
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1998

Footnotes

1.

One panelist made this comment after the panel approved the National Election Studies' request for a 1991–96 budget. Ultimately, the election study project was funded for “only” 5.1 million over a five year period. Presently, about 24% of the NSF budget in political science is devoted to the National Election Study.

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2. For information on proposal submissions and past awards, consult the NSF's website for the Political Science Program at http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sber/polysci.

3. One very sage NSF official observed that he had never had a researcher reject any amount of money, regardless of the researcher's initial budget estimate.