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

跨机构选举一致性：比较研究和改进的数据基础设施

• 批准号: 2314710
• 负责人: Kenneth Kollman
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314710&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Electoral; Congruence; Across; Institutions; Comparative

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.

该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当选上议院（即，参议院）和总统任期影响政府开支。 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了解设计宪法和运行立法机构和议会的方法，从而制定更稳定和有效的经济政策。 该研究小组还将收集、组织和传播有关上议院和总统选举结果的新数据，以及有关地方选举结果的数据。 从这项研究的知识可以帮助政府机构-无论是国内和国外-当他们与新的和新兴的民主国家，以促进合法与和平的选举结果和稳定，可持续的政策。 该项目也将为学生提供机会。该研究团队将依靠研究生和本科生来协助大部分研究，为他们提供使用复杂数据的宝贵培训经验。该团队将比较来自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性。 特别是，研究人员将分析党派控制和不同的党派联盟在议会和不同的分支机构，包括总统，政府支出，公共产品生产，财政和宏观经济政策，商业投资和外国援助的有效性。 他们将公开提供数百万条世界上大多数选举民主国家和选举专制国家的议会（上议院和下议院）和总统选举的细粒度选举结果数据记录。 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，使广泛的研究具有启发性。 该研究将帮助学者，决策者和实践者了解什么导致合法与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，并通过使学术界内外的研究人员更容易获得此类选举数据，来衡量历史数据的成功前景。该项目也将为学生提供机会。该研究团队将包括研究生和本科生，以协助大部分的研究，为学生提供宝贵的培训经验，使用复杂的数据。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。