The 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study

该奖项由 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）资助。国会选举合作研究是来自 50 多所大学和学院的研究团队的合作。这些研究小组在 2006 年和 2008 年分别对 35,000 人和 37,000 人进行了全国性分层抽样调查。此外，该项目还于 2006 年和 2007 年产生了 10,000 人小组，并于 2006 年、2007 年和 2008 年产生了 2,000 人小组。参与该项目的每个研究小组都购买了来自一家公司的 1,000 个样本调查（所有团队均为同一家公司，将通过 2009 年竞标确定）。每个团队决定其调查中一半的问题（称为团队内容）。 CCES PI (Stephen Ansolabehere) 和由参与团队组成的设计委员会决定另一半问题（称为通用内容）。通用内容包含每个团队都希望衡量的问题，例如投票行为和选举经历，或者引起广泛兴趣并需要大量样本的问题。该项目会进行与团队数量一样多的调查，并且还会生成包含公共内容的单个非常大的样本调查。 2010 年的研究项目将有 35 到 40 个团队。这项拨款请求资金 (1) 购买额外的案例，以减少 2010 年研究中各个团队的成本，特别是那些缺乏足够研究资金的团队，(2) 购买由学生在麻省理工学院/哈佛大学 PORTL 研讨会、Ralph Bunche 暑期学院和 NSF 资助的夏季 EITM 学院设计的教育模块，(3) 支付所有案例的投票验证费用， (4) 提供一般研究支持以协调项目和团队的活动。CCES 提供了一个通用的调查平台，为各个团队提供便利。以相对较低的调查成本制定研究议程，并产生政治学家广泛感兴趣的共同调查。 2010 年 CCES 将开展三打小型调查，探索广泛的研究问题。共同内容调查检查国会和州选举中的个人投票行为。这项调查的规模较大，使研究人员能够衡量投票行为在不同政治地理（例如州和地区）以及不同社会背景下的差异。调查的规模还使研究人员能够研究选举经历、参与的困难和障碍以及对投票过程的满意度。 除了研究对知识的贡献之外，2010 年 CCES 将产生四个更广泛的影响。首先，该项目创建并支持广泛的学者网络，促进思想和研究的交流。该项目向在研究机构工作或与研究机构合作的任何人开放。 CCES 制作的数据、调查问卷和研究论文通过该项目的网站和年度会议免费分发。其次，该项目为通常无法进入调查研究中心的教师和学生提供了一个调查平台。在过去的三年里，来自各个大学和学院的 150 多名教职员工和学生通过 CCES 获得了编写问题、设计调查工具和开发实验的实践经验。第三，这笔赠款支持三个教育模块，以促进研究生和本科生的教学，并将产生用于教学调查研究和政治行为的教育材料。这些材料将通过项目网站分发。第四，这项研究通过全国黑人政治科学家会议、拉尔夫·邦奇夏季学院和全国各地的个人研究小组涉及许多服务不足的群体。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The Cooperative Congressional Election Study is a collaboration of research teams from over 50 universities and colleges. Collectively these research teams have fielded national, stratified-sample surveys of 35,000 persons in 2006 and 37,000 persons in 2008. In addition the project has produced a 10,000-person panel in 2006 and 2007 and a 2,000-person panel in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Each research team involved in the project purchases a 1,000-sample survey from a firm (the same firm for all teams, to be determined through a competitive bid in 2009). Each individual team determines half of the questions on its survey (called Team Content). The CCES PI (Stephen Ansolabehere) and a design committee, drawn from the participating teams, determines the other half of the questions (called Common Content). Common Content consists of questions that every team would like to measure, such as voting behavior and electoral experiences, or questions that are of broad interest and require a very large sample. The project fields as many surveys as there are teams and also produces a single very large sample survey that consists of the Common Content. The 2010 study projects to have 35 to 40 teams.This grant requests funding (1) to purchase additional cases in order to reduce the costs to the individual teams for the 2010 study, especially for those lacking sufficient research funds, (2) to purchase educational modules to be designed by students in the MIT/Harvard PORTL seminar, at the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute and at the NSF-sponsored summer EITM institute, (3) to pay for vote validation for all cases, and (4) to provide general research support to coordinate the project and the team?s activities.The CCES provides a common survey platform that facilitates individual teams? research agendas at a relatively low survey cost and yields a common survey of broad interest to political scientists. The 2010 CCES will produce three-dozen smaller surveys, exploring a vast range of research questions. The Common Content survey examines individual voting behavior in congressional and state elections. The large size of this survey allows researchers to measure how voting behavior varies across political geography, such as state and district, and across social contexts. The scale of the survey also allows researchers to study electoral experiences, difficulties and barriers to participation, and satisfaction with the voting process.Beyond the contribution of the research to knowledge, the 2010 CCES will have four broader impacts. First, the project creates and supports a broad network of scholars and facilitates exchange of ideas and research. The project is open to anyone working at or with a research institution. The data, questionnaires, and research papers produced by the CCES are distributed for free through the project?s website and at an annual conference. Second, the project provides a survey platform for faculty and students who do not normally have access to a survey research center. Over the past three years, more than 150 faculty and students from a very broad range of universities and colleges have gained hands-on experience writing questions, designing survey instruments, and developing experiments through the CCES. Third, this grant supports three educational modules to facilitate graduate and undergraduate instruction and will yield educational materials for use in teaching survey research and political behavior. These materials will be distributed through the project website. Fourth, the study involves many underserved groups, through the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute, and individual research teams throughout the country.