The 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。合作国会选举研究是来自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3.5万人和3.7万人进行了全国分层抽样调查。此外，该项目还在2006年和2007年生产了1万人的小组，在2006年、2007年和2008年生产了2000人的小组。参与该项目的每个研究团队从一家公司购买1,000份样本调查（所有团队都是同一家公司，将在2009年通过竞标确定）。每个单独的团队决定其调查中一半的问题（称为团队内容）。CCES PI （Stephen Ansolabehere）和从参与团队中选出的设计委员会决定另一半问题（称为共同内容）。公共内容由每个团队想要测量的问题组成，例如投票行为和选举经验，或者具有广泛兴趣并且需要非常大的样本的问题。该项目处理的调查与团队的数量一样多，并且还生成一个由公共内容组成的非常大的样本调查。2010年的研究计划将有35到40个团队。这笔拨款要求资金(1)购买额外的案例，以减少2010年研究的单个团队的成本，特别是对于那些缺乏足够研究资金的团队；(2)购买由麻省理工学院/哈佛PORTL研讨会、Ralph Bunche夏季研究所和nsf赞助的夏季EITM研究所的学生设计的教育模块；(3)支付所有案例的投票验证费用。(4)提供一般的研究支持，以协调项目和团队？年代的活动。CCES提供了一个通用的调查平台，方便了各个团队。研究议程的调查成本相对较低，并产生了政治科学家广泛感兴趣的共同调查。2010年的CCES将产生36个较小的调查，探索广泛的研究问题。“共同内容”调查调查了个人在国会和州选举中的投票行为。这项大规模的调查使研究人员能够衡量投票行为在不同政治地理（如州和地区）以及不同社会背景下的差异。调查的规模也允许研究人员研究选举经验，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，该项目创建并支持了一个广泛的学者网络，促进了思想和研究的交流。该项目面向在研究机构工作或与研究机构合作的任何人。CCES制作的数据、调查问卷和研究论文通过该计划免费分发。在美国网站和年度会议上。其次，该项目为通常无法访问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，来自各大高校的150多名教师和学生通过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，并将为教学调查研究和政治行为提供教材。这些材料将通过项目网站发布。第四，通过全国黑人政治科学家会议、拉尔夫·邦奇暑期研究所和全国各地的个人研究团队，这项研究涉及了许多得不到充分服务的群体。

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.