The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems

选举制度的比较研究

• 批准号: 0451598
• 负责人: Nancy Burns
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0451598&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Comparative; Study; Electoral; Systems

The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is a coordinated comparative project that enables the systematic analysis of electoral behavior under globally varying institutional conditions. CSES coordinates the operation of more than 50 indigenous national election studies across the world, thereby ensuring that information about citizens' behavior and attitudes gathered at each siteis comparable. Under CSES auspices, information about the institutional arrangements that characterize each participating country is also collected, also in comparable form. CSES designs, receives, rationalizes, cleans, and merges these data, and then makes them freely and immediately available to the world's scholarly community.CSES is a uniquely valuable resource for comparative research. Already CSESdata have been put to productive use - enabling the understanding of the consequences of political institutions for democratic citizens and providing a venue for the further development of comparative methodology - and much more work is underway. Established in 1996, CSES completed its first round of data collection (Module 1) in 2001, with some 33 countries participating. Module 2, with more than 50 participating countries, will draw to a close in 2005. The first two waves of the CSES concentrated on the performance of democracy and on accountability and representation, respectively. The third wave of CSES, commencing in 2006, willfocus on the choice set that voters face in an election. While we know a lot about why and how voters vote, we know little about how voting is affected by the kind of choices that are available to the electorate. This issue has broad relevance for both normative and theoretical reasons. This award is to cover only the essential central coordinating operation that CSES has provided so successfully so far, modestly supplemented by funds to provide airfare support to CSES planning meetings for participants from poorer counties in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. All of the costs of the surveys themselves are contributed by the various national studies. The planning for the modules is subsidized by committee members when they host planning committee meetings at least once annually; hosts provide meeting space, plus lodging and meals for all participants. Broader Impacts. CSES serves as a multiplier of research on comparative politics. CSES makes it possible to generate millions of dollars worth of valuable cross-national data on electoral behavior at a fractional cost. By effectively coordinating the efforts of election specialists and centers around the world, CSES provides a unique resource for scholars everywhere interested in deep and consequential questions of democratic politics. In addition, because CSES is a cooperative effort among projects rather than individuals, there are important consequences for the individual projects involved, in terms of reexamining their own practices and learning from others, and these consequences are especially significant because of the large number of scholars affected by these institutionalized practices. Finally, because some of CSES affiliates, especially those in the emerging democracies, are very new, CSES provides a venue for training social scientists in these emerging democracies in cutting-edge social science theory and methodology.

选举制度的比较研究（CSES）是一个协调的比较项目，使全球不同的制度条件下的选举行为的系统分析。 CSES协调了世界各地50多项土著民族选举研究的运作，从而确保在每个地点收集的公民行为和态度信息具有可比性。在经济和社会理事会的主持下，还收集了关于每个参与国体制安排的资料，也是以可比形式收集的。CSES设计、接收、合理化、清理和合并这些数据，然后将其免费并立即提供给世界学术界。CSES是比较研究的独特宝贵资源。CSESdata已经投入了生产性使用--使人们能够理解政治制度对民主公民的影响，并为进一步发展比较方法提供了场所--还有更多的工作正在进行中。该委员会成立于1996年，于2001年完成了第一轮数据收集（模块1），约有33个国家参加。有50多个国家参加的单元2将于2005年结束。前两波的CSES分别集中在民主的表现和问责制和代表性。第三波CSES将于2006年开始，重点关注选民在选举中面临的选择集。虽然我们知道很多关于选民为什么和如何投票，我们知道投票是如何受到选民可以选择的种类的影响。这一问题具有广泛的相关性，既有规范性的原因，也有理论性的原因。该奖项仅涵盖CSES迄今为止成功提供的重要中央协调业务，并由资金适度补充，为来自东欧，非洲，拉丁美洲和亚洲较贫穷国家的参与者提供CSES规划会议的机票支持。调查本身的所有费用都由各种国家研究提供。 委员会成员每年至少主办一次规划委员会会议时，对模块的规划给予补贴;主办方提供会议场地，并为所有与会者提供住宿和膳食。更广泛的影响。CSES是比较政治学研究的倍增器。CSES使人们有可能以低廉的成本产生价值数百万美元的有价值的跨国选举行为数据。通过有效地协调世界各地的选举专家和中心的努力，CSES为各地对民主政治的深刻和重大问题感兴趣的学者提供了独特的资源。此外，由于CSES是一个项目之间的合作努力，而不是个人，有重要的后果，为个别项目参与，在重新审视自己的做法和学习他人，这些后果是特别重要的，因为大量的学者受到这些制度化的做法。最后，由于CSES的一些分支机构，特别是新兴民主国家的分支机构，是非常新的，CSES提供了一个场地，在这些新兴民主国家的社会科学家在尖端的社会科学理论和方法的培训。