The Political Science Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces it awards for basic research support and dissertation improvement grants for fiscal year 2009. The program funded 56 new projects and 34 doctoral dissertation improvement proposals. (Additional program funds were spent on continuing grant increments. These result from awards that were made in previous fiscal years, but where funds are being disbursed on a yearly basis instead all up front.) The Political Science Program spent $10,461,799 on these research, training, and workshop projects and $383,238 on dissertation training grants for political science students. In addition, the program contributed $345,000 to support three Graduate Research Fellowships. The program holds two grant competitions annually (Regular Research, August and January 15; Dissertation Improvement, 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
Ansolabehere, Stephen, Harvard University, “The 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study”
Arunachalam, Raj, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, “Collaborative Research: Divorce and the Political Gender Gap”
Bapat, Nevin A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Collaborative Research: The Threat and Imposition of Economic Sanctions”
Berardo, Alfredo R., University of Arizona, “Collaborative Research on Governing Complex Commons: Policy Networks and the Local Ecology of Games” (jointly funded with Innovation and Organizational Sciences)
Brancati, Dawn, Washington University, “Another Great Illusion: The Advancement of Separatism through Economic Integration”
Brandt, Patrick T., University of Texas at Dallas, “Collaborative Research: Development of a Technology for Real Time, Ex Ante Forecasting of Intra and International Conflict and Cooperation”
Carmen, Ira H., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Illinois Biology and Politics Summer Institute”
Chandra, Kanchan, New York University, “A Time-Series Cross-National Dataset on Intra-State Violence”
Cho, Wendy K., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Collaborative Research: Shifting Paradigms: Using Subset Selection to Obtain Matched Samples” (jointly funded with Methodology, Measurement and Statistics)
Cox, James C., Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc., “Collaborative Research: Asymmetric Power in Paired Common Pool and Public Good Games: Experiments, Institutions, and Behavior”
Dickson, Bruce J., George Washington University, “Generating Popular Support in Non-Democratic Regimes: The Case of China”
Druckman, James N., Northwestern University, “Experimentation in Political Science”
Finan, Frederico, University of California-Berkeley, “Understanding Corruption” (jointly funded with Economics)
Freeman, John R., University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, “Collaborative Research: Development of a Technology for Real Time, Ex Ante Forecasting of Intra and International Conflict and Cooperation”
Gerber, Elisabeth R., University of Michigan Ann Arbor, “MMS Mid-Career Research Fellowship Program: The Spatial Context of Political Phenomena” (jointly funded with Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics)
Gibler, Douglas M., University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, “Does Force or Agreement Lead to Peace? A Collection and Analysis of Militarized Interstate Dispute (MID) Settlement, 1816 to 2001”
Gibson, Clark C., University of California-San Diego, “Explaining the African Vote”
Granato, Jim, University of Houston, “A Workshop on the Integration of Emerging Formal and Empirical Methods and Tools to Enhance Social Scientific Development”
Hatemi, Peter K., University of Iowa, “Training the Trainers: Genetics and Political Behavior”
Holbrook, Thomas M., University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, “Collaborative Research: A Multi-city Study of Contextual Influences on Group Relations and Voting Behavior in Urban Mayoral Elections” (jointly funded with Sociology)
Hutchings, Vincent, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, “Elite Communications and Racial Group Conflict in the 21st Century”
Huth, Paul K., University of Maryland College Park, “Guerrilla Insurgencies: The International and Domestic Sources of Resource Mobilization and Coercive Bargaining”
Imai, Kosuke, Princeton University, “Collaborative Research: The Measurement and Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Science” (jointly funded with Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics)
Imai, Kosuke, Princeton University, “Statistical Analysis of Causal Mechanisms: Identification, Inference, and Sensitivity Analysis” (jointly funded with Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics)
Jeffrey, Craig, University of Washington, “Fixing Futures? New Politicians and Low Caste Democratization in Uttar Pradesh, India” (jointly funded with Geography and Spatial Sciences)
Kaufmann, Karen, University of Maryland College Park, “Collaborative Research: A Multi-city Study of Contextual Influences on Group Relations and Voting Behavior in Urban Mayoral Elections” (jointly funded with Sociology)
Krosnick, Jon A., Stanford University, “2009 Summer Institute in Political Psychology”
Lambert, Priscilla, Western Michigan University, “Collaborative Research: Gender and Constitutions: A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of Gender Provisions” (jointly funded with Law and Social Sciences)
Leeds, Brett Ashley, William Marsh Rice University, “Collaborative Research: Interests, Institutions, and Foreign Policy Change”
Lubell, Mark, University of California-Davis, “Collaborative Research on Governing Complex Commons: Policy Networks in an Ecology of Games” (jointly funded with Innovation and Organizational Sciences)
Mattes, Michaela, Vanderbilt University, “Collaborative Research: Interests, Institutions, and Foreign Policy Change”
Mazzocco, Maurizio, University of California, Los Angeles, “Understanding Corruption” (jointly funded with Economics)
McClain, Paula D., Duke University, “REU Site: Ralph Bunche Summer Institute” (jointly funded with Cross-Directorate Activities Program, Research Experiences for Undergraduates)
Melander, Erik, University of Notre Dame, “Third Party Peacemaking in Civil Wars: The Effectiveness of Information Providers”
Merolla, Jennifer, Claremont Graduate University, “Collaborative Research: The Effects of Terrorist Threats on Democratic Support in Liberal and Illiberal Democracies”
Monroe, Burt L., Pennsylvania State University, University Park, “Opposition, Rhetoric, and Democratic-Styled Institutions in the Middle East and North Africa”
Moore, Will H., Florida State University, “Treaties, Institutions & Torture: Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry” (jointly funded with Law and Social Sciences)
Morgan, T. Clifton, William Marsh Rice University, “Collaborative Research: The Threat and Imposition of Economic Sanctions”
Ostrom, Elinor, Indiana University, “Collaborative Research: Asymmetric Power in Paired Common Pool and Public Good Games: Experiments, Institutions, and Behavior”
Palmer, Glenn H., Pennsylvania State University, University Park, “MID4: Updating the Militarized Dispute Data Set, 2002–2010”
Putterman, Louis, Brown University, “Property Rights, Collective Action, and Public Choice: An Experimental Study”
Qian, Nancy, National Bureau of Economic Research Inc., “Collaborative Research: Village Democracy in China” (jointly funded with Economics)
Scholz, John T., Florida State University, “Collaborative Research: Governing the Commons in Complex Settings: Policy Networks in an Ecology of Games” (jointly funded with Innovation and Organizational Sciences)
Scholz, John T., Florida State University, “Political Networks: Conference and Infrastructure Development” (jointly funded with Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics)
Schrodt, Philip A., University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., “Collaborative Research: Development of a Technology for Real Time, Ex Ante Forecasting of Intra and International Conflict and Cooperation”
Schwartz-Shea, Peregrine, University of Utah, “NSF Workshop on Interpretive Methodologies in Political Science”
Scribner, Druscilla, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, “Collaborative Research: Gender and Constitutions: A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of Gender Provisions” (jointly funded with Law and Social Sciences)
Sewell, Edward C., Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, “Collaborative Research: Shifting Paradigms: Causal Inference via Subset Selection” (jointly funded with Methodology, Measurement and Statistics)
Shah, Paru R., Macalester College, “Local Elections in America Project (LEAP) Workshop”
Shulman, Stuart, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Workshop: YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States” (jointly funded with the Division of Information and Intelligent System)
Slantchev, Branislav L., University of California-San Diego, “Conflict Bargaining with Endogenous Distribution of Power” (jointly funded with Decision, Risk and Management Science)
Smith, Tom W., National Opinion Research Center, “A Proposal to Continue ‘A National Data Program for the Social Sciences’ ” (jointly funded with Geography and Regional Sciences, Law and Social Sciences, Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics, Science and Technology Studies Social Psychology, and Sociology)
Solis, Patricia A., Association of American Geographers, “US-Panama; Institute for Integration of Research on Climate Change and Hazards in the Americas, Panama, July 2010”
Stam, Allan, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, “Human Development and Political Leadership: The Influence of Personal History on Foreign Policy Decision”
Stone, Walter J., University of California-Davis, “Political Context and Citizen Response in the 2010 Elections”
Strach, Patricia, SUNY at Albany, “Commodity Politics: Citizens, Consumers, and Public Policy”
Tomz, Michael, Stanford University, “Collaborative Research: Candidate Ambiguity and Voter Choice”
Valentino, Nicholas, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, “Collaborative Research: The Measurement and Identification of Media Priming Effects in Political Science” (jointly funded with Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics)
Van Houweling, Robert, University of California-Berkeley, “Collaborative Research: Candidate Ambiguity and Voter Choice”
Walker, Edward T., University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, “Testing the Effects of Professional Grassroots Lobbying Campaigns on Civic and Political Engagement” (jointly funded with Sociology)
Watson, Sara E., Ohio State University Research Foundation, “Collaborative Research: Divorce and the Political Gender Gap”
Wilkerson, John D., University of Washington, “Workshop: Tools for Text: Annotation Methods for Political Science Research”
Zechmeister, Elizabeth, Vanderbilt University, “Collaborative Research: The Effects of Terrorist Threats on Democratic Support in Liberal and Illiberal Democracies”
DISSERTATIONS
With Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, the advisor is listed first with the student listed second.
Ames, Barry C., Steven E. Finkel, and Amy E. Smith, University of Pittsburgh, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Networks and Neighborhoods in Local Politics: The Case of Brazil”
Andrews, Josephine T., and Kristie L. Inman, University of California, Davis, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Voting Behavior in African Democracies”
Bartels, Larry M., and Nicholas W. Carnes, Princeton University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Prime Time Politics: Television News and the Visual Framing of War”
Bates, Robert H., and Janet Lewis, Harvard University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Ending Conflict Early”
Clark, David H., and Aparna Kher, SUNY at Binghamton, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Know Then Thyself, Domestic Delegation, Information, Leadership Uncertainty and Decisions during Crisis Bargaining”
Collier, David, and Benjamin Lessing, University of California, Berkeley, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Know Then Thyself, Domestic Delegation, Information, Leadership Uncertainty and Decisions during Crisis Bargaining”
Crescenzi, Mark, and Reed M. Wood, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Capabilities and Constraints: Untangling State and Rebel Strategies of Violence during Civil Conflict”
Druckman, James N., and Toby W. Bolsen, Northwestern University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: A Light Bulb Goes On: Values, Attitudes, Social Norms, and Personal Energy Consumption”
Eckel, Catherine C., and Sheheryar Banuri, University of Texas at Dallas, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: An Experimental Study of Bribery, Nepotism, and Patronage”
Feiock, Richard C., and Anthony J. Kassekert, Florida State University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Policy Tool Bundling: Predicting the Selection of Economic Development Policy Instruments Using a Multivariate Probit Analysis”
Feldman, Stanley, and Pazit Ben Nun, SUNY at Stony Brook, “Doctoral Dissertation Research Support: The Moral Public: Moral Judgment and Political Attitudes”
Gallagher, Mary E., and Yuhua Wang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: The Development of the Rule of Law in China”
Geer, John G., and Jennifer Anderson, Vanderbilt University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Prime Time Politics: Television News and the Visual Framing of War”
Golden, Miriam, and Brian Min, University of California, Los Angeles, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Who Gets Public Goods? The Politics of Public Service Provision in India”
Grzymala-Busse, Anna, and Jennifer Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Center-Right”
Haggard, Stephan M., and Celeste E. Beesley, University of California, San Diego, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Foreign Investment and Political Attitudes toward Social Policy”
Humphreys, Macartan, and Guy S. Grossman, Columbia University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Causal Effects of Leaders' Selection Rules on Participation and Rent-Seeking Behavior in Ugandan Farmer Associations”
Humphreys, Macartan, and Laura Paler, Columbia University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: When Do Citizens Grasp the Purse Strings? Budget Transparency and Political Engagement in Indonesia” (jointly funded with the Office of International Science and Engineering)
Jones, Mark P., and Tiffany D. Barnes, William Marsh Rice University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Gender Quotas and the Representation of Women: Empowerment, Decision-making, and Public Policy”
Keller, Edmond, and Devorah Manekin, University of California, Los Angeles, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Waging War among Civilians: Patterns of Military-Civilian Interaction in the Second Intifada”
Laitin, David D., and Rikhil Bhavnani, Stanford University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: On Political Inequality—Measurement, Causes, Effects and Remedies”
Locke, Richard M., and Gabrielle K. Kruks-Wisner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Accessing the State—Local Governance, and Public Goods in India”
Lupia, Arthur W., and Adam S. Levine, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Examining When Impersonal Donation Solicitations are Successful”
Manion, Melanie F., and Meina Cai, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Unpacking the Miracle of Private Investment: The Micro-foundations of Chinese Property Rights”
Oliver, John E., and Min Hee Go, University of Chicago, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Rethinking the Institutional Basis of Urban Development—Hurricane Katrina and Neighborhood Recovery Efforts in New Orleans”
Posner, Daniel N., and Elizabeth Carlson, University of California, Los Angeles, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Ethnicity and Retrospection: Explaining Voting Behavior in Uganda”
Posner, Daniel N., and John McCauley, University of California-Los Angeles, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Distinguishing Religious and Ethnic Politics in Africa”
Plutzer, Eric, and Julianna Pacheco, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Dynamic Policy Responsiveness in the US States”
Reingold, Beth, and Adrienne Smith, Emory University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Political Incorporation and Women's Interests in Municipal Policymaking”
Stevenson, Randolph T., and William C. Meddaugh, William Marsh Rice University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Ministerial Policy Preferences and the Role of Legislative Institutions in Ameliorating Conflict in Single-party Cabinets”
Tessler, Mark, and Joshua Gubler, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Explaining Interethnic Aggression in Israel”
Weisberg, Herbert F., Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, and Dino P. Christenson, Ohio State University Research Foundation, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Information and Context: The Electoral Intersection”
Weyland, Kurt, and Austin R. Hart, University of Texas at Austin, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: The Architecture of Political Choice—Political Rhetoric, Economic Perceptions, and Risky Political Prospects”
Wood, Elizabeth, and Meghan Lynch, Yale University, “Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: The Escalation of Mass Violence Against Civilians”
SMALL GRANTS FOR EXPLORATORY RESEARCH AND GRANTS FOR RAPID RESPONSE RESEARCH
Eckel, Catherine C., University of Texas at Dallas, “RAPID: Collaborative Research: Recovery Spending and Citizen Expectations”
Gastil, John W., University of Washington, “SGER: Assessing the Deliberative Quality and Impact of the Australian Citizens and Online Parliaments” (jointly funded with Decision, Risk and Management Science)
Gibson, Clark C., University of California-San Diego, “SGER: Explaining the African Vote: an Exit Poll in Ghana”
Granato, Jim, University of Houston, “SGER: The Regional Real Estate Database and Project: Implications for Public Policies in the U.S. Housing Market”
Granato, Jim, University of Houston, “RAPID: The Houston Region Foreclosure Study: A Panel Survey”
Kornberg, Allan, Duke University, “SGER: Canada Shifts Green? The Economy, the Environment and Electoral Choice in a Contemporary Mature Democracy”
La Raja, Raymond, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “RAPID: Candidate Emergence for the Connecticut Legislature After Implementation of the Clean Elections Act”
Orey, Byron D., Jackson State University, “SGER: Race and the 2000 Election”
Shrum, Wesley M., Louisiana State University, and Agricultural and Mechanical College, “SGER: Science in Multiethnic Democracy: The Role of Kenyan Research and Educational Institutions in the 2007 Post-Election Conflicts”
King-Meadows, Tyson D., University of Maryland Baltimore County, “RAPID: Racial Attitudes and the 2009 Confirmation Hearings on Sonia Sotomayor”
Wilson, Rick K., William Marsh Rice University, “RAPID: Collaborative Research: Recovery Spending and Citizen Expectations”
