The Impact of Country of Origin on Group Consciousness in Political Behavior Research

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。该项目的目标是深入了解不同原籍国公民的政治态度和行为。尽管这些群体在选民中占相当大的比例，但关于原籍国对政治观点、行为和政策偏好的影响的学术知识仍然有限。该项目将解决这一差距，并发展对原籍国对美国公民政治行为的影响的循证理解。与NSF的使命一致，这项研究将有助于更明智和细致入微的理解，在一个不确定的转型时期，美国民主治理和国家福利面临的独特挑战和机遇。除了拟议的研究外，该项目还将支持一个由不同学者参加的小型会议，这些学者具有与公民原籍国和性别有关的专门知识，其中将包括本科生和研究生的发言。因此，该项目将连接来自全国各地的学者，他们分享研究兴趣，并为来自代表性不足背景的学生提供获得实践研究经验的独特机会。拟议的研究包括访谈和焦点小组，旨在提供有关拉丁裔政治态度的深入见解和具有全国代表性的公民调查。由此产生的数据将用于评估性别和原籍国如何交互影响公民的意见和政治行为，并塑造美国公民群体意识的范围和性质。因此，该项目能够发展一种交叉的理论方法来研究多重社会身份如何影响公民的意见和政治行为。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). The goal of this project is to gain insights into the political attitudes and behaviors of citizens with different countries of origin. Scholarly knowledge of the effects of country of origin on political opinions, behavior, and policy preferences remains limited, despite the fact that these groupings comprise a sizable portion of the electorate. This project will address this gap and develop an evidence-based understanding of the effect of country of origin on the political behavior of American citizens. Consistent with the mission of NSF, this study will contribute to a more informed and nuanced understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities facing democratic governance and national welfare in the United States in a period of uncertain transformation. In addition to the proposed research, this project will also support a small conference of diverse scholars with areas of expertise related to citizens' country of origin and gender that will include presentations by undergraduate and graduate students. This project will therefore connect scholars from across the country who share research interests and provide students from underrepresented backgrounds with a unique opportunity to gain hands-on research experience. The proposed research includes interviews and focus groups aimed at providing in-depth insights about Latinx political attitudes and a nationally representative survey of citizens. The resulting data will be used to evaluate how gender and country of origin interactively influence the opinions and political behavior of citizens and shape the scope and nature of group consciousness among American citizens. This project therefore enables the development of an intersectional theoretical approach to study how multiple social identities influence the opinions and political behavior of citizens. This cross-cutting approach allows this project to contribute to a gap in existing research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.