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。2006年和2008年，这些研究小组共同对35 000人和37 000人进行了全国分层抽样调查。此外，该项目还在2006年和2007年设立了一个10 000人小组，在2006年、2007年和2008年设立了一个2 000人小组。参与该项目的每个研究小组向一家公司购买1 000份抽样调查表（所有研究小组均购买同一家公司，将通过2009年竞标确定）。每个团队决定其调查中的一半问题（称为团队内容）。CCES PI（Stephen Ansolabehere）和一个设计委员会（来自参与团队）确定另一半问题（称为公共内容）。公共内容由每个团队都想衡量的问题组成，例如投票行为和选举经验，或者是广泛感兴趣的问题，需要非常大的样本。该项目领域的许多调查，因为有团队，也产生了一个单一的非常大的样本调查，包括共同的内容。2010年的研究项目有35至40个团队。该赠款要求资金（1）购买额外的情况下，以减少2010年研究的个别团队的成本，特别是对于那些缺乏足够的研究资金，（2）购买教育模块将由学生在麻省理工学院/哈佛PORTL研讨会设计，在拉尔夫邦奇夏季研究所和国家科学基金会赞助的夏季EITM研究所，（3）支付所有情况下的投票验证，（4）提供一般的研究支持，以协调项目和团队？的活动。CCES提供了一个共同的调查平台，方便个别团队？以相对较低的调查成本制定研究议程，并产生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。共同内容调查考察了国会和州选举中的个人投票行为。这项大规模的调查使研究人员能够衡量投票行为如何在不同的政治地理，如州和地区，以及不同的社会背景。调查的规模也使研究人员能够研究选举经验，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，2010年CCES将有四个更广泛的影响。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。该项目对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、问卷和研究论文通过该项目免费分发。的网站和年度会议。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。在过去的三年中，来自广泛的大学和学院的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，这项研究涉及许多服务不足的群体，通过全国黑人政治科学家会议，拉尔夫邦奇夏季研究所，以及全国各地的个人研究小组。

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.