The Fifth Module of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)

选举制度比较研究（CSES）第五模块

• 批准号: 1420973
• 负责人: Nancy Burns
• 金额: $ 59.92万
• 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: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1420973&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fifth; Module; Comparative; Study; Electoral

The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) investigates how differences in the design and practice of elections in different countries affect how individuals in those countries think and behave. In 2014, twice as many countries are democracies than just two decades ago. The CSES is well positioned to study this unprecedented and continuing wave of democratization. The CSES project provides coordination and leadership for the social science research efforts of over 60 nations, and has established itself as the most-well known data resource for this type of research. The project disseminates all of its data for free to the public, and is being used by thousands of scientists, students, policy makers, journalists, and citizens.CSES is arranged according to modules. Each module is a questionnaire on an important topic of scientific interest, a topic identified by the research community and selected by project collaborators. The questionnaires are included in high quality, representative surveys that are conducted at the time of national elections in countries around the world. Each module is in place for five years, to incorporate at least one national election in each country during the time span. The current proposal is to complete the activities of the fourth module of the CSES, and to plan and design the fifth module.Involving the collaboration of more than 200 scholars in the United States and internationally, CSES advances the understanding of enduring and fundamental questions about elections, vote choice, turnout, and citizens' attitudes about democracy and politics. The goals of this unique research program are to understand how society, politics, and economics shape the beliefs and behaviors of citizens, to examine and compare the nature and quality of democracy and elections across countries, and to understand how groups with different backgrounds, and living under different political arrangements, interact with democratic institutions.CSES collects survey data from each country, as well as background information about the social, political, and economic conditions in the country. CSES designs, receives, cleans, checks, and merges all of these data, combining them into a single dataset which allows for comparison across countries. All of the data are then made freely and immediately available via the project website. This is a unique resource for researchers worldwide, and that is reflected in the large and growing number of publications that make use of the data.CSES data help in examining issues that are crucial to national policy in the United States, in a way that is not possible with other datasets. It encourages international cooperation around issues of democracy, politics, and social science. The project is a unique resource in studying, and building scientific capacity in, developing democracies. CSES is widely used in training students through university coursework, and students regularly serve as research assistants for the project.CSES-based research provides indispensable insight on how democratic institutions actually work and contributes to the debate about the virtues and vices of different electoral systems.

选举制度比较研究（CSES）研究不同国家选举设计和实践的差异如何影响这些国家个人的思维和行为。2014年，民主国家的数量是20年前的两倍。社科院有能力研究这一前所未有的、持续不断的民主化浪潮。CSES项目为60多个国家的社会科学研究工作提供协调和领导，并已成为这类研究中最知名的数据资源。该项目向公众免费传播其所有数据，并被成千上万的科学家、学生、政策制定者、记者和公民使用。cse按照模块进行排列。每个模块都是关于一个重要的科学兴趣主题的问卷，该主题由研究社区确定并由项目合作者选择。这些问卷包括在高质量的、有代表性的调查中，这些调查是在世界各国举行全国选举时进行的。每个模块为期五年，每个国家在这段时间内至少举行一次全国选举。目前的建议是完成CSES第四个模块的活动，并对第五个模块进行规划设计。CSES涉及美国和国际上200多名学者的合作，促进了对选举、投票选择、投票率以及公民对民主和政治的态度等持久和基本问题的理解。这个独特的研究项目的目标是了解社会，政治和经济如何塑造公民的信仰和行为，检查和比较各国民主和选举的性质和质量，并了解不同背景和生活在不同政治安排下的群体如何与民主机构互动。CSES收集来自每个国家的调查数据，以及有关该国社会、政治和经济状况的背景信息。CSES设计、接收、清理、检查并合并所有这些数据，将它们合并成一个单一的数据集，以便在各国之间进行比较。所有的数据都可以通过项目网站免费提供。对于全世界的研究人员来说，这是一个独特的资源，这反映在使用这些数据的大量和越来越多的出版物上。CSES数据有助于研究对美国国家政策至关重要的问题，这是其他数据集无法做到的。它鼓励围绕民主、政治和社会科学问题开展国际合作。该项目是在发展中民主国家研究和建设科学能力的独特资源。CSES被广泛用于通过大学课程培训学生，学生经常担任项目的研究助理。基于cse的研究提供了关于民主制度如何实际运作的不可或缺的见解，并有助于关于不同选举制度的优点和缺点的辩论。