Political Science Research Infrastructure: Comparative Study of Electoral Systems

政治科学研究基础设施：选举制度的比较研究

• 批准号: 0112029
• 负责人: W.Phillips Shively
• 金额: $ 68.84万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0112029&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Political; Science; Research; Infrastructure; Comparative

The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is an international collaboration of more than 50 national election studies across the world. It represents a globally coordinated comparative project to study electoral behavior under varying institutional conditions. By collecting systematically comparable survey and associated institutional context information at the time of national elections and then making the resulting data freely available to the scholarly community, it provides a unique resource for comparative research on the ways in which institutions constrain and shape electoral behavior and attitudes toward democracy.CSES is a collaborative-survey and macro-data collection and distribution project. It serves as the mechanism for planning, merging into a single file, and distributing (a) survey data collected through a collaboratively developed ten-minute module administered identically as part of each country's regular survey study; (b) commonly coded social and economic background variables of the respondents; and (c) collaboratively specified macro-data on relevant characteristics of each country's government and electoral system, their political parties, and the candidates. CSES in not intended to support any individual country's data collection. Rather it provides the infrastructure for collaboration that allows the project to exist. Specifically, CSES is the mechanism for collaboration in designing the survey modules and specifying the macro-data to be collected; the agency for creating electronically-accessible merged data sets, documentation, and an archive of related material from the individual submissions of each participating country; and the medium of communication among participating (and potentially participating) countries-and thus, a facilitator of cross-national research. The CSES micro-and macro-datasets are made available to the research community immediately once they have been processed.One of the great virtues of CSES is its efficiency as "big science." All direct costs of data collection are borne by the individual participating projects which then submit the data at no cost to CSES for inclusion in the comparative dataset. As a result, funding is only needed for the centralized functions of the project, including providing organizational and administrative support to the CSES Planning Committee in designing and distributing the modules and making sure that as many countries as possible administer the module in the appropriate way; serving as the chief information office of the project, including providing organizational and administrative support to the CSES Planning Committee in designing and distributing the modules and making sure that as many countries as possible administer the module in the appropriate way; serving as the chief information office of the project, including assisting participating countries with questions they have regarding its administration; creating and distributing the merged data set and documentation files from the submissions of the participating countries; maintaining an auxiliary archive of the project; and maintaining the CSES web site, which is the primary location of the CSES archive, including further developing its capacities for international collaboration.

选举制度的比较研究（CSES）是一个国际合作的50多个国家的选举研究在世界各地。 它是一个全球协调的比较项目，研究不同制度条件下的选举行为。 通过系统地收集全国选举时的可比调查和相关制度背景信息，然后将所得数据免费提供给学术界，它为比较研究制度约束和塑造选举行为和对民主的态度的方式提供了独特的资源。 它作为规划、合并成单一档案和分发的机制：（a）通过合作开发的10分钟模块收集的调查数据，作为每个国家定期调查研究的一部分，以同样方式管理;（B）答卷人共同编码的社会和经济背景变量;以及（c）就每个国家的政府和选举制度、政党和候选人的相关特征合作提供具体的宏观数据。 CSES不打算支持任何个别国家的数据收集。 相反，它提供了允许项目存在的协作基础设施。 具体而言，CSES是合作设计调查模块和指定要收集的宏观数据的机制;创建电子访问的合并数据集，文件，并从每个参与国的个人提交的相关材料的档案的机构;和参与（和潜在的参与）国家之间的通信媒介，因此，跨国研究的促进者。 CSES的微观和宏观数据集一经处理就可以立即提供给研究界。CSES的一个最大优点是它作为“大科学”的效率。“数据收集的所有直接费用由各个参与项目承担，然后这些项目将数据免费提交给CSES，以纳入比较数据集。 因此，只需要为该项目的集中职能提供资金，包括在设计和分发单元方面向高级经济学委员会规划委员会提供组织和行政支助，并确保尽可能多的国家以适当方式管理该单元;作为该项目的首席信息办公室，包括为CSES规划委员会提供组织和行政支持，以设计和分发这些模块，并确保尽可能多的国家以适当的方式管理这些模块;担任项目的首席信息办公室，包括协助参与国解决其在项目管理方面的问题;根据参与国提交的文件创建和分发合并的数据集和文件档案;维持项目的辅助档案;以及维持作为环境和社会科学委员会档案主要存放地点的环境和社会科学委员会网站，包括进一步发展其国际合作能力。