SGER: Collaborative Research: The Machinery of Representation--Voting Technologies and the 2000 Presidential Election

这项为探索性研究提供小额赠款的建议概述了一个合作项目，该项目旨在对在非常时期的2000年美国总统选举之前为科学和技术研究以及相关的政治和法律分析提出的问题进行深入的学术研究。该项目将设法找出这些问题最突出的认识论和社会技术层面，并将开发一个特别档案收藏，以支持目前对选举后36天事态发展进行的跨学科研究。该提案有三个关键要素：(1)将在马萨诸塞州剑桥的哈佛大学约翰·肯尼迪政府学院举行的初步规划讲习班；(2)系统地收集资料，其中许多是临时资料，存放在康奈尔大学图书馆系统的特别藏书中；(3)后续讲习班，讨论和完善项目头两个阶段产生的一组文件。康奈尔大学科学与技术研究系和哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院之间的合作将促进广泛的学者参与创建收藏，并有助于科学和技术研究与更传统的政府和公共政策观点之间的富有成效的互动。

This proposal for a Small Grant for Exploratory Research outlines a collaborative project for in-depth scholarly research on the issues raised for science and technology studies (S&TS), as well as for related political and legal analysis, by the extraordinary year 2000 US presidential election. The project will seek to identify the most salient epistemological and sociotechnical dimensions of these issues and will develop a special archival collection to support ongoing interdisciplinary research on the 36-day post-election developments. The proposal has three key elements: (1) an initial planning workshop to be held in Cambridge, MA, at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; (2) a systematic effort to gather materials, many ephemeral, to be housed in a special collection in the Cornell University library system; and (3) a follow-up workshop to discuss and refine a group of papers emanating from the first two phases of the project. The collaboration between the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University will facilitate the involvement of a broad range of scholars in creating the collection and contribute to productive interactions between science and technology studies and more traditional perspectives on government and public policy.