Regular Awards

Aldrich, John, Duke University, “Social and Psychological Dimensions of Ballot Secrecy”

Atran, Scott, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, “Workshop: New Horizons in Conflict System Analysis: Applications to the Middle East, Fall 2010” (jointly funded with Cultural Anthropology and Decision, Risk and Management Science)

Bapat, Navin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Stanford Summer Institute in Political Psychology 2010–2012” (jointly funded with Decision, Risk and Management Science)

Bennett, D. Scott, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, “The Impact of Gender Stereotypes on Support for Women Candidates” (jointly funded with Decision, Risk and Management Science)

Brintnall, Michael, Kimberly Mealy, Luis Fraga, Terri Givens, and Dianne Pinderhughes, American Political Science Association, “Constituency-Level Election Data and the Analysis of Party Systems”

Campbell, David, and Geoffrey Layman, University of Notre Dame, “Collaborative Research: Measuring International Nongovernment Organizations and World Polity Network Embeddedness.”

Carlin, Ryan, Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., “Measuring Campaign Effects in African Contexts: A Panel Survey on the 2011 General Elections in Uganda”

Carsey, Thomas, and Justin Kirkland, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Collaborative Research: Using Web Data to Study the Nature and Consequences of U.S. Congressional Campaigns”

Crisp, Brian, and Amanda Driscoll, Washington University, “Collaborative Research: American National Election Studies (ANES) 2009–2013”

Davenport, Christian, University of Notre Dame, “Workshop: Comparative Policy Agendas Project”

Dion, George Douglas, and Gail Buttorff, University of Iowa, “Collaborative Research: Local Elections in America Project (LEAP)”

Dolan, Kathleen, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, “Workshop: EAGER: Enriching Political Science”

Edwards, Martin, Seton Hall University, “EAGER: The Creation and Classroom Application of a Web Portal for Social Science Methods Education”

Fearon, James, Stanford University, “Foreign Interest Groups and American Foreign Policy”

Feldman, Stanley, SUNY at Stony Brook, “The Domestic Politics of World Power, 1890–1945”

Fowler, James, and Christopher Dawes, University of California–San Diego, “Collaborative Research: Do Institutions Affect the Attitudes and Behavior of Constituents? Evidence from an Environmental Management Program in India”

Friedman, Edward, and Kerry Ratigan, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset II”

Gabel, Matthew, and Diana O'Brien, Washington University, “Collaborative Research: Legislative Tactics and the Durability of Legislation”

Gastil, John, University of Washington, “Majority Rule and Minority Rights: A Panel Study of Democratic Values and Attitudes toward the Senate Filibuster among the American Public” (jointly funded with Decision Risk and Management Science)

Gerber, Elisabeth, and Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, “Collaborative Research: Culture, Psychological Distance and Modes of Moral Decision Making”

Ginges, Jeremy, New School University, “Workshop: New Models for Reducing Barriers between Researchers and Communities, April 8–9, 2010, University of Houston” (jointly funded with Cultural Anthropology and Decision, Risk and Management Science)

Granato, Jim, Joan Sieber, Mike Angel, and Renee Cross, University of Houston, “Collaborative Research: Transformations in Political Party Organizations and the Rise of Candidate-Centered Elections in the U.S., 1878–2008”

Hensel, Paul, University of North Texas, “Topics in Dynamics and Political Economy”

Hochschild, Jennifer, and Jennifer Howk, Harvard University, “Collaborative Research: The Political Economy of Localized Communal Conflicts in Ethiopia” (jointly funded with Arctic Social Sciences)

Howell, William, University of Chicago, “Workshop: Improving Collaboration between Academics and Advocates: Micro Data on Political Violence”

Huber, Gregory, and Alan Gerber, Yale University, “The Impact of Transitional Justice on Human Rights and Democracy”

Ishiyama, John, and James Greig, University of North Texas, “Collaborative Research: Simulating the Dynamics of Insurgency” (jointly funded with Research Experiences for Undergraduates)

Kenny, Christopher, Kathleen Bratton, and Christopher Weber, Louisiana State University & Agricultural and Mechanical College, “Collaborative Research: Using Web Data to Study the Nature and Consequences of U.S. Congressional Campaigns”

Kitschelt, Herbert, and Arturas Rozenas, Duke University, “Collaborative Research: Culture, Psychological Distance and Modes of Moral Decision Making”

Kollman, Kenneth, and Allen Hicken, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, “Collaborative Research on Governing Complex Commons: Policy Networks in an Ecology of Games”

Kollman, Kenneth, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, “Secular America? The Political Causes and Consequences of Growing Public and Private Secularism”

Krook, Mona Lena, Washington University, “Multi-Investigator Multi-Site Experiments and Infrastructure Development”

Krosnick, Jon, Stanford University, “Investigating the Electoral Impact and Deliberation of the Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review”

Lake, David, and Araceli Cruz, University of California–San Diego, “Collaborative Research: Contentious Issues in World Politics: Updating the ICOW Dataset”

Lake, David, and Jennifer Keister, University of California–San Diego, “Collaborative Research: Transformations in Political Party Organizations and the Rise of Candidate-Centered Elections in American Politics, 1878–2008”

Lewis, David, Vanderbilt University, “Theoretical and Experimental Research on Voting and Bargaining Games”

Linn, Suzanna, and Jonathan Moody, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, “Collaborative Research: Using Web Data to Study the Nature and Consequences of U.S. Congressional Campaigns”

Love, Gregory, University of Mississippi, “Personality and Politics in the Americas”

Marschall, Melissa, William Marsh Rice University, “Workshop: Workshop on Survey Methodology and Sampling”

Martin, Lanny, and Jason Eichorst, William Marsh Rice University, “Collaborative Research: The Political Economy of Localized Communal Conflicts in Ethiopia”

McClurg, Scott, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, “RUI—The Political Economy of IMF Surveillance”

Medin, Douglas, Northwestern University, “War and Presidential Power” (jointly funded with Cultural Anthropology and Decision, Risk and Management Science)

Mitchell, Sara, University of Iowa, “REU Site: Civil Conflict Management and Peace Science”

Mondak, Jeffery, and Damarys Canache, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, “Collaborative Research: Governing Complex Commons: Policy Networks and the Local Ecology of Games” (jointly funded with Social Psychology)

Monroe, Burt, and Eitan Tzelgov, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, “Collaborative Research: Legislative Tactics and the Durability of Legislation”

Morton, Rebecca, and Manuela Travaglianti, New York University, “Developing Policy-Specific Measures of Public Opinion”

Palfrey, Thomas, California Institute of Technology, “Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institutes 2011–2015” (jointly funded with Economics)

Paolino, Philip, University of North Texas, “Workshop: New Research on Gender in Political Psychology”

Phillips, Justin, Andrew Gelman, and Jeffrey Lax, Columbia University, “Collaborative Research: American National Election Studies (ANES) 2009–2013” (jointly funded with Method, Measure, and Statistics)

Reno, William, and Christopher Day, Northwestern University, “Collaborative Research: Do Institutions Affect the Attitudes and Behavior of Constituents? Evidence from an Environmental Management Program in India”

Schneider, Monica, and Angela Bos, Miami University, “Collaborative Research: Contentious Issues in World Politics: Updating the ICOW Dataset”

Shah, Paru, Macalester College, “Workshop: Workshop on Genes, Cognition and Social Behavior”

Sikkink, Kathryn, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, “Dynamics in American Politics” (jointly funded with Law and Social Sciences)

Sinha, Aseema, and Adam Auerbach, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “A Multi-Level, Agent-Based Model for Identifying the Factors that Enable or Constrain International Climate Change Negotiations”

Smith, Steven, James Gibson, and Chintan Turakhia, Washington University, “Collaborative Research: Simulating the Dynamics of Insurgency”

Stewart, Marianne, and Harold Clarke, University of Texas at Dallas, “Collaborative Research: Measuring International Nongovernmental Organizations and World Polity Network Embeddedness”

Stimson, James, and Frank Baumgartner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Collaborative Research: Local Elections in America Project (LEAP)”

Stokes, Susan, and Brian Fried, Yale University, “Collaborative Research: Culture, Psychological Distance and Modes of Moral Decision Making”

Vavreck, Lynn, and David Sears, University of California–Los Angeles, “Collaborative Research: Governing the Commons in Complex Settings: Policy Networks in an Ecology of Games”

Walder, Andrew, Stanford University, “Understanding Public Opinion and Policymaking Using Multilevel Regression and Poststratification” (jointly funded with Sociology)

Wilkerson, John, University of Washington, “Documenting the Mechanisms of Belief and Attitude Change on Controversial Issues: The Case of Global Warming and Trust in Scientists”

Wood, Elisabeth, and Alexandra Hartman, Yale University, “Gender Quotas and Women's Political Representation”

Zechmeister, Elizabeth, Vanderbilt University, “Political Movements in an Authoritarian Hierarchy”

Doctoral Dissertation Awards

With Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, the advisor is listed first with the student (when available) listed second.

Anderson, William, Philip Schrodt, William Jacoby, Janet Box-Steffensmeier, and Michelle Dion, University of South Dakota, “Research in Political Science: Campaigning for the Agenda: Agenda-Setting in the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Presidential Campaigns”

Berardo, Alfredo, University of Arizona, “Research in Political Science: How Context Affects the Way Voters Search for Information” (jointly funded by Innovation & Organizational Sciences)

Berinsky, Adam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Research in Political Science: The Merits of Money and ‘Muscle’: How Serious Criminality Impacts Democracy in India”

Borsuk, Mark, Dartmouth College, “Research in Political Science: The Struggle over Citizenship in Liberia and Côte D'Ivoire” (jointly funded with Decision, Risk, and Management Science)

Calvo, Ernesto, and Marina Lacalle, University of Houston, “Research in Political Science: A Genome-Wide Association Study of Voter Turnout”

Chhatre, Ashwini, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, “Research in Political Science: The Fates of Rebels: The Politics of Insurgency Survival and Demise”

Eisenstadt, Todd, and Michael Danielson, American University, “Research in Political Science: A Value-Based Model of Opinion Formation”

Hannagan, Rebecca, Northern Illinois University, “Research in Political Science: States within States: The Social Contracts of Armed Groups”

Hirano, Shigeo, Columbia University, “Research in Political Science: Understanding Chinese ‘Welfare States’: Rural Health Policy and the New Cooperative Medical System”

Hughes, Melanie, University of Pittsburgh, “Research in Political Science: When Women Matter: Exploring Theoretical Links between Women's Descriptive and Substantive Representation” (jointly funded with Method, Measure & Statistics and Sociology)

Hutchings, Vincent, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, “Research in Political Science: Rebel Organization and Civilian Abuse”

Jupille, Joseph, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Research in Political Science: The Causes, Consequences, and Measurement of Perceived Political Control”

Laitin, David, and Nicholai Lidow, Stanford University, “Research in Political Science: Building Peace through Institutions? Revisiting the Logic of Institutional Engineering in Divided Societies through Experiments”

Larimer, Christopher, University of Northern Iowa, “Research in Political Science: Social Networks and Electoral Strategies in the Philippines”

Lubell, Mark, University of California–Davis, “Research in Political Science: Institutional Variation, Balance of Power and Agenda Control: Evidence from the Argentine Subnational Legislatures” (jointly funded by Innovation & Organizational Sciences)

Lupia, Arthur, Scott de Marchi, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, and Sean Gailmard, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, “Research in Political Science: Elections, Information, and Political Stability in Autocratic Regimes”

Lupia, Arthur, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, “Research in Political Science: The Relational Nature of Legislating”

Maltzman, Forrest, George Washington University, “Research in Political Science: Reformed or Reconfigured? Explaining Why Militant Groups Participate in Elections”

Maskin, Eric, Institute for Advanced Study, “Research in Political Science: Turning Majorities into Minorities—Heresthetical Rhetoric of Parliamentary Oppositions” (jointly funded with Economics)

Murillo, Maria, and Milan Vaishnav, Columbia University, “Research in Political Science: Accountability in Developing Democracies—Within-Country Evidence from Mali”

O'Brien, Kevin, and Sara Newland, University of California–Berkeley, “Research in Political Science: Diversity and Distribution: The Success and Failure of Economic Development in China's Poor and Minority Counties”

Paxton, Pamela, Ohio State University, “Research in Political Science: Understanding the Decline of Clientelism in Brazil” (jointly funded with Method, Measure & Statistics and Sociology)

Redlawsk, David, and Richard Lau, Rutgers University New Brunswick, “Research in Political Science: Cooperation in Uncertainty: Migration, Ethnicity, and Community Governance in India's Urban Slums”

Reifler, Jason, Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., “Research in Political Science: Politics at Home and Abroad: Mexican Migrants as Transnational Actors in Their Home Towns”

Scholz, John, Florida State University, “Research in Political Science: Judicial Reform and Court Curbing in Comparative Perspective” (jointly funded by Innovation & Organizational Sciences)

Sears, David, University of California–Los Angeles, “Research in Political Science: Opposition Party Strategy in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes”

Segura, Gary, and Simon Jackman, Stanford University, “Research in Political Science: Electoral Competition and the Provision of Rural Public Goods in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Shipan, Charles, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, “Research in Political Science: Social Mobilization and Institutional Origins in Catastrophically Climate Endangered Communities”

Snyder, James, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Research in Political Science: The Politics of Grants: Presidential Influence on the Distribution of Federal Funds”

Starr, Harvey, and Stanley Dubinsky, University of South Carolina Research Foundation, “Research in Political Science: Explaining the Use and Policy Impact of Conference Committees”

Wantchekon, Leonard, and Robin Harding, New York University, “Research in Political Science: Descriptive Representatives and Institutional Context”

Grants for Rapid Response Research

Arriola, Leonardo, University of California–Berkeley, “RAPID: A Referendum on Debt: The Political Economy of Icesave”

Conroy-Krutz, Jeffrey, Michigan State University, “RAPID: Long-term Unemployment and Individualist Values”

Druckman, James, Northwestern University, “RAPID: Collaborative Research: The Political Costs of Natural Disasters: Democratic Support, Authoritarian Attitudes, and Blame Attribution after Chile's 2010 Earthquake”

Fordham, Benjamin, SUNY at Binghamton, “RAPID: Racial Attitudes and Health Care Opinions”

Kifer, Martin, High Point University, “RAPID: Perpetual Minority Government? Electoral Choice in the Midst of Political and Economic Crises in a Contemporary Mature Democracy”

Krosnick, Jon, Stanford University, “RAPID: Social Context and Emotional Response to Disaster” (jointly funded with Informational Science Education, Geosciences Education, and Decision Risk and Management Science)

Parkin, Michael, Oberlin College, “RAPID: Rumors, Truths, and Reality: A Study of Political Misinformation”

Pevehouse, Jon, University of Wisconsin–Madison, “RAPID: Collaborative Research: The Political Costs of Natural Disasters: Democratic Support, Authoritarian Attitudes, and Blame Attribution after Chile's 2010 Earthquake”

Scruggs, Lyle, University of Connecticut, “RAPID: Collaborative Research: Gender Composition and Decision Making: The Impact of HF243” (jointly funded with Sociology)

Smith, Lahra, Georgetown University, “RAPID: Collaborative Research: The Political Costs of Natural Disasters: Democratic Support, Authoritarian Attitudes, and Blame Attribution after Chile's 2010 Earthquake”

Vavreck, Lynn, University of California-Los Angeles, “RAPID: Collaborative Research: Gender Composition and Decision Making: The Impact of HF243”