Electoral Congruence Across Institutions: A Comparative Study and Improved Data Infrastructure

研究小组将分析世界各地民主国家的选举结果和经济政策数据，以提高对非主流政党在参议院和总统选举中如何影响政府支出的理解。他们将直接比较各国的数据。这项研究的结果将有助于学者、决策者和实践者更好地理解制定宪法和运行立法机构和议会的方法，从而制定更稳定、更有效的经济政策。研究组还将收集、整理、传播参议院选举、总统选举和地方选举结果的新资料。这项研究的知识可以帮助国内外政府机构与新兴民主国家接触，促进合法和平的选举结果和稳定、可持续的政策。这个项目也将为学生提供机会。研究团队将依靠研究生和本科生协助进行大部分研究，为他们提供使用复杂数据的宝贵训练经验。该团队将比较世界各地民主国家的数据，重点关注各国政府各部门的不同党派代表。特别是，研究人员将分析党派控制以及在议会和不同部门（包括总统职位）中所代表的不同党派联盟如何影响政府支出、公共产品生产、财政和宏观经济政策、商业投资和对外援助的有效性。他们将向公众提供数百万份细粒度的选举结果数据记录，这些数据涉及世界上大多数选举民主国家和选举专制国家的议会（包括上院和下院）和总统选举。该团队将创建一个新的数据档案，供所有研究人员使用。更详细、范围更广、更完整、更准确的数据，以有用的格式汇编，并免费向公众提供，使广泛的启发性研究成为可能。这项研究将帮助学者、决策者和实践者了解是什么导致了合法、和平的政治结果，以及稳定、有效的政策。该项目将帮助政府机构和非政府组织管理期望，评估项目绩效，并根据历史数据对成功前景进行基准测试，使学术界内外的研究人员更容易获得这些选举数据。这个项目也将为学生提供机会。研究团队将包括研究生和本科生协助进行大部分研究，为学生提供使用复杂数据的宝贵训练经验。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The research team will analyze data on election results and economic policies from democracies around the world to improve understanding of how election of non-mainstream political parties to upper chambers (i.e., senates) and presidencies affect government spending. They will directly compare data across countries. Results from this research will help scholars, decision-makers, and practitioners to understand better methods of designing constitutions and running legislature and parliaments, leading to more stable and effective economic policies. The research team will also will gather, organize, and disseminate novel data on upper chamber and presidential election results as well as data on election results at local levels. Knowledge from this research can aid government agencies—both domestic and foreign— when they engage with new and emerging democracies to promote legitimate and peaceful election outcomes and stable, sustainable policies. This project will also provide opportunities for students. The research team will rely on graduate and undergraduate students to assist in much of the research, providing them with valuable training experiences using complex data.The team will compare data from democracies around the world, focusing on countries’ diverse partisan representation across branches of government. In particular, the researchers will analyze how partisan control and the different partisan coalitions represented within parliaments and across different branches—including presidencies—matter for government spending, public goods production, fiscal and macroeconomic policy, business investment, and the effectiveness of foreign aid. They will make publicly available millions of records of fine-grained election results data for parliamentary (both upper and lower chambers) and presidential elections across most of the world’s electoral democracies and electoral autocracies. The team will create a novel data archive that will be available for all researchers to use. Data with greater detail, scope, completeness, and accuracy, compiled in useful formats, and provided free to the public, enable a wide range of illuminating research. The research will help scholars, decision-makers, and practitioners to understand what leads to legitimate and peaceful political outcomes and to stable, effective policies. This project will help government agencies and non-governmental organizations manage expectations, evaluate program performance, and benchmark prospects for success against historical data by making such election data more accessible to researchers inside and outside of academia. This project will also provide opportunities for students. The research team will incorporate graduate and undergraduate students to assist in much of the research, providing the students with valuable training experiences using complex data.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.