The political science program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces its awards for basic research support and dissertation improvement grants for fiscal year 2012. The program funded 68 new projects and 30 doctoral dissertation improvement awards. Additional program funds were spent on continuing grant increments, which result from awards that were made in previous fiscal years, but for which funds are being disbursed on a yearly basis instead of upfront. The program holds two grant competitions annually—Regular Research, August and January 15; and Dissertation Improvement September and January 15—and constitutes a major source of political science research funding as part of fulfilling NSF's mission to encourage theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social and political processes and structures.
REGULAR AWARDS
With regular awards, the first principal investigator for each project is listed.
Amenta, Edwin, University of California-Irvine, “Collaborative Research: Collective Action Dynamics in the U.S., 1960–1995” (Funded with the Sociology Program)
Andrews, Kenneth T., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Collaborative Research: Social Movements and Policy Impact” (Funded with the Sociology Program)
Ansolabehere, Stephen, Harvard University, “2012 CCES”
Ansolabehere, Stephen, Harvard University, “CCES, 2012 Panel Study”
Berinsky, Adam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Collaborative Research: The American Mass Public in the Early Cold War Years”
Bleck, Jaimie, University of Notre Dame, “The Impact of Radio on Democratization in Islamic Africa”
Boydstun, Amber E., University of California, Davis, “The Asymmetric Sequential Effects of Gain and Loss Media Frames on Economic Attitudes”
Burns, Nancy E., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Distributional Politics and Social Protection: the Fourth Module of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems”
Caren, Neal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Collaborative Research: Collective Action Dynamics in the U.S., 1960-1995” (Funded with the Sociology Program)
Cleary, Matthew, Syracuse University, “The Effects of Indigenous Autonomy in Southern Mexico”
Crisp, Brian, Washington University, “Institutional Interactions: The Impacts of Bicameralism and Presidential Powers on Legislative Structure”
Druckman, James, Northwestern University, “Collaborative Research: Using Web Data to Study U.S. Congressional Campaigns and Representation”
Druckman, James, Northwestern University, “Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS): Proposal for Renewed Support, 2012–2015 (Funded with the Economics Program, the Decision, Risk and Management Science Program, the Measurement, Measurement, and Methodology Program, the Science of Organizations Program, the Social Psychology Program, the Sociology Program, the Division of Social and Economic Sciences, the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, and the Office of Cyber-Infrastructure)
Earl, Jennifer, University of Arizona, “Collaborative Research: Collective Action Dynamics in the U.S., 1960–1995” (Funded with the Sociology Program)
Gornick, Janet C., CUNY Graduate School University Center, “Enhancing Social Science Data Infrastructure: Upgrade of Metadata Documenting Cross-National Microdata (Funded with the Economics Program, the Measurement, Methodology and Statistics Program, and the Sociology Program)
Jagger, Pamela, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Evaluating the Welfare and Forest Cover Impacts of Uganda's Forest Sector Governance Reform”
Kanthak, Kristin, University of Pittsburgh, “An Experimental Analysis of the Choice to Represent” (Funded with the Economics Program)
Kartik, Navin, Columbia University, “Information Transmission and Aggregation” (Funded with the Economics Program)
Kifer, Martin, Highpoint University, “Collaborative Research: Using Web Data to Study U.S. Congressional Campaigns and Representation”
Lawless, Jennifer, American University, “Uncovering the Origins of the Gender Gap in Political Ambition” (Funded with the Science of Broadening Participation Program)
Lewis, Michael, Christopher Newport University, “Collaborative Research: Social Movements and Policy Impact” (Funded with the Sociology Program)
Maoz, Zeev, University of California-Davis, “The Effects of Shocks on International Networks: An Agent-Based Model with Simulated and Real-World Data”
McClain, Paula D., Duke University, “REU Site in Political Science: Ralph Bunche Summer Institute”
Merrick, Jason R., Virginia Commonwealth University, “Combining Prescriptive and Descriptive Decision Theory for Counter-Terrorism Decisions” (Funded with the Decision, Risk and Management Science Program)
Neshkova, Milena I., Florida International University, “Bureaucratic Professionalization in New Democracies: Drivers and Developmental Dynamics”
Nichols, Rebecca, American Statistical Association, “International Confer-ence on Methods for Surveying and Enumerating Hard-to-Reach Populations” (Funded with the Measurement, Methodology and Statistics Program and the Sociology Program)
Parkin, Michael, Oberlin College, “Collaborative Research: Using Web Data to Study U.S. Congressional Campaigns and Representation”
Pickett, Steward T., Ecological Society of America, “Building Strategic Interdis-ciplinary Partnerships among Natural and Social Scientists and Practitioners to Foster Sustainability in a Rapidly Changing World” (Funded with the Ecosystem Studies Program, the Science, Technology and Society Program, and the Directorate of Geology)
Robnett, Belinda, University of California, Irvine, “Outlook on Life and Political Engagement” (Funded with the Sociology Program)
Schickler, Eric, University of California, Berkeley, “Collaborative Research: The American Mass Public in the Early Cold War Years”
Sides, John, George Washington University, “Group-Centrism in American Public Opinion”
Wilkerson, John D., University of Washington, “The Power of Policy Ideas: Tracking Language in Policymaking”
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARDS
With Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, the advisor is listed first with the student listed second.
Alter, Karen and Jacqueline R. McAllister, Northwestern University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: International Criminal Tribunals' Impact on Violence Against Civilians in Ongoing Conflicts”
Arriola, Leonardo R. and Matthew K. Gichohi, University of California, Berkeley, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Not in My Backyard: Intra-Group Party Competition in Africa”
Bates, Robert H. and Mai Hassan, Harvard University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Deconcentration in Kenya Since the Beginning of Multi-Party Democracy”
Berinsky, Adam and Michele F. Margolis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: The Intersection of Core Values and Political Identities”
Campbell, Andrea L. and Michael W. Sances, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Citizen Input, Policy Outcomes, and Local Representation”
Cashore, Benjamin W. and Stefan Renckens, Yale University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Public and Private Regulatory Interactions: EU Responses to Private Environmental Regulation”
Druckman, James N. and Samara M. Klar, Northwestern University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: How Identities Affect Preferences”
Druckman, James N. and Thomas J. Leeper, Northwestern University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Political Information and the Dynamics of Public Opinion”
Druckman, James N. and Brian F. Harrison, Northwestern University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: How Elite Polarization Constrains Leader Rhetoric”
Elman, Miriam and Ioana E. Matesan, Syracuse University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: The Dynamics of Radicalization and De-radicalization in Egypt and Indonesia”
Gailmard, Sean and Janna King, University of California-Berkeley, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Accountability, Presidential Power, and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs”
Gibson, Clark C. and Nicole S. Bonoff, University of California-San Diego, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Traditional Authority in the State: Chiefs and Taxation in Ghana”
Gibson, Clark C. and Brigitte A. Zimmerman, University of California, San Diego, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Does Power Corrupt? An Experimental Approach To Explore the Origins of Corruption in Africa”
Gilligan, Michael and Ben Pasquale, New York University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Finding Mechanisms to Reduce Violence and Support for Armed Groups”
Haas, Peter M. and Alper Yagci, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Regulation of Genetically Modified Seed in Developing Countries”
Herrera, Yoshiko M. and Kyle Marquardt, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Language Matters: The Causal Role of Linguistic Identity in “Ethnic” Mobilization in Moldova”
Huber, Gregory A. and Celia Paris, Yale University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Citizen Reactions to Political Disagreement”
Imai, Kosuke and Graeme D. Blair, Princeton University, “ Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Politics of Location in Resource Rent Distribution and the Projection of Power in Africa”
Jost, John and Erin P. Hennes, New York University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Motivated Information Processing: A Policy Case”
Laitin, David D. and Sangick Jeon, Stanford University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: An Experimental Study of Diversity Management Techniques”
Lau, Richard R. and Tessa Ditonto, Rutgers University New Brunswick, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: The Effects of Appearance on Information Search and Evaluation”
Lau, Richard R. and Mona S. Kleinberg, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: The Internet, Race, and Democracy”
Lerman, Amy E. and Meredith L. Sadin, Princeton University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Citizens? Social Group Stereotypes as a Basis for Political Reasoning”
Levy, Jonah D. and Kimberly Twist, University of California, Berkeley, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Potentially Problematic Parties in Government: A Study of the European Extremism”
Malesky, Edmund J. and Kai Ostwald, University of California, San Diego, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Determinants and Measures of Ethnic Identity”
Mendelberg, Tali and Erica M. Czaja, Princeton University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: A ‘Revolutionary Emotion’: Empathy, Public Opinion and the March to Equality”
Perry, Elizabeth J. and Sheena Greitens, Harvard University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Secret Police and State Violence under Authoritarianism”
Perry, Elizabeth J. and Jennifer Jie Pan, Harvard University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Welfare Provision under Authoritarianism–Explaining Variation in Welfare Provision among Chinese Localities”
Schatzberg, Michael G. and Jeffrey W. Paller, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Ghanaian Slums: Constructing Democracy in Unexpected Places”
Shapiro, Robert Y. and Mark A. Schneider, Columbia University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Poverty Alleviation in Developing Nations”
Simmons, Beth and Richard Nielsen, Harvard University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Sources of Extremism and Moderation in the Living Shariah”
Straus, Scott and Matthew Scharf, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Development or Decay? Economic Trajectories following Political Turnover in Africa”
Tripp, Aili M. and Taylor A. Price, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Uneasy Alliances: Traditional Leaders and Equality”
Warner, Carolyn and Christopher W. Hale, Arizona State University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Religion and Political Activism in Mexico”
Wibbels, Erik M. and Benjamin Barber, Duke University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: The Political Economy of Decline”
Wolak, Jennifer L. and William P. Jaeger, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Partisan Cues, Candidate Positioning, and Citizen Competence”
Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID), Workshops, and Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE)
The first principal investigator for each project is listed.
Berman, Eli M., University of California, San Diego, “Transforming Security Research Workshop” (Funded with the Decision, Risk and Management Science Program, the Law and Social Science Program, and the Social Psychology Program)
Davenport, Christian A., University of Notre Dame, “Workshop: The Conflict Consortium”
Desposato, Scott W., University of California, San Diego, “Workshop: Workshop on Ethical Challenges of Experiments in the Social Sciences”
Driscoll, Jesse R., University of California, San Diego, “RAPID: Service Provision and Security in Mogadishu, Somalia”
Eckel, Catherine S., Texas A&M University, “Workshop: Biennial Social Dilemmas Conference” (Funded with the Economics Program)
Elman, Colin, Syracuse University, “WORKSHOP: Process Tracing, Counterfactual Analysis, and Active Citation”
Jost, John, New York University, “INSPIRE: Computer Learning of Dynamical Systems to Investigate Cognitive and Motivational Effects of Social Media Use on Political Participation” (Funded with the Social Psychology Program, the Human-Centered Computing Program, the Social-Computational Systems Program, the Division of Social and Economic Sciences, the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, and the Office of Integrated Activities)
Lust, Ellen M., Yale University, “RAPID: Social Networks, Clientelism and Elections in Contexts of Change: Egyptian, Tunisian, and Moroccan Elections of 2011”
Mason, Robert M., University of Washington, “INSPIRE: Tools, Models, and Innovation Platforms for Research on Social Media (Funded with the Human-Centered Computing Program, the Social-Computational Systems Program, the Division of Social and Economic Sciences, the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, and the Office of Integrated Activities)
Stewart, Charles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Workshop: Workshop on the Science of Voting Technology: Research and Education”
Weldon, Sirje L., Purdue University, “Workshop: New Perspectives on Intractable Problems: Informal Institutions as Policy Responses to Global Grand Challenges”
