Joel Selway, Political Science 1. Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The Dataset was completed and two papers were produced. One has been sent out for review and the other presented at an annual political science conference. 2. Evaluation of the mentoring environment The Mentoring Environment was organized well […]
Funding American Democracy
Michael Barber Academic Objectives The academic objectives of the project were largely met. Students participated in a number of research projects from beginning to end. Two students were included as coauthors on papers that were eventually published in academic journals. Other students participated throughout the process as research assistants. They collected data from archival sources, […]
The Determinants and Dynamics of National Identity and Ethno-Regional Identity Salience
PI: Joel Selway Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The academic objectives have been met. With the grant I was able to conduct a survey of ~1,000 subjects in Thailand. I have since presented two article-length pieces at academic conferences and am finishing off a book proposal that will […]
Mentoring Environment Grant Final Report (2014-2015)
Quinn Mecham Academic Objectives The academic objectives of this proposal were largely met, including the collection of a global database on Islamist political parties, which has informed scholarship published in the last two years and which will be published in the coming years. Extensive bibliographies of Islamist parties in more than 20 countries around the […]
Mapping Dissonance
Joshua Gubler, Political Science Previous research highlights the importance of generating empathy for marginalized outgroups as a precursor to changing negative attitudes and behaviors towards them. Politicians and social activists often seek to generate this empathy by “humanizing” marginalized groups through positive media or interpersonal contact. We have previously shown that such attempts at humanization […]
All Donors Great and Small: Putting the 2008 Surge in Individual Political Contributions in Perspective
Dr. Jay Goodliffe, Department of Political Science Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met Using funding from the Mentoring Environment Grant, we produced a full book manuscript that is currently under review at different university presses (“Message, Messenger, and Medium: Understanding the 2008 Presidential Donor Surge”). The book consists of […]
Facing Reality: An Experimental Approach to Ethnic Identity
Drs. Michael Findley and Daniel Nielson, Department of Political Science Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The research project has been successful, overall, and we are continuing to prepare research for publication. When we recruited students to assist us with the research, we asked them to develop their own […]
The Effects of Development Aid on Public Health
Dr. Daniel Nielson, Department of Political Science Reaching Academic Objectives Between 2007 and 2009 the students in my mentoring research program helped fill out the Project-Level Aid (PLAID) Database, now called AidData and located at aiddata.org, to such an extent that the academic fruits became both evident and prominent. With the help of the mentored […]