Long-term Support for the National Election Studies, 2002-2005

该奖项继续支持基金会对美国国家选举研究(ANES)作为主要数据收集和归档资源的长期承诺。ANES的主要目的是维持和加强多样化的数据库，以支持关于美国投票、舆论和政治参与的基础研究。该项目的重要性源于这些主题的重要性。投票、舆论和参与是政治和公民身份这一宏大而复杂的故事中的基本要素。在过去的25年里，ANES成功地为研究提供了经验和概念基础，加深了对美国人在这一过程中所扮演的角色的理解。数以千计的学者已经使用了ANES数据库。这个项目涉及美国国家选举研究的继续。调查人员对2004年总统选举前接受采访的1200名个人进行了一项全国概率抽样研究。其中约85%的受访者在选举后期间重新接受采访。这两次采访平均每次持续50分钟，而且都是面对面进行的。所有数据都可以通过一个网站和大学间政治和社会研究联盟迅速获得。一个由选举研究界杰出学者组成的监督委员会向主要调查人员提供咨询，并代表更大的国家选举数据用户群体。不同的国家社会科学界有机会直接参与国家科学研究的设计和执行。这项研究为研究美国政治和美国政治行为提供了最重要的数据库，可以提高ANES核心时间序列数据的质量，测试理论、测量和数据收集方面的创新。

This award provides continued support of the Foundation's long-term commitment for the American National Election Studies (ANES) as a major data gathering and archiving resource. The major purpose of ANES is to sustain and enhance the diversified database that supports basic research on voting, public opinion, and political participation in the United States. The importance of the project derives from the significance of these topics. Voting, public opinion, and participation are essential elements in the grand and complex story of politics and citizenship. Over the last twenty-five years, ANES has successfully provided the empirical and conceptual foundations for research that has deepened an understanding of the part that Americans play in this process. Thousands of scholars have used the ANES database.This project involves a continuation of the American National Election Studies. The investigators carry out a 2004 study of a national probability sample of 1200 individuals interviewed in the pre-presidential election period. Approximately eighty five percent of those respondents are re-interviewed in the post-election period. Both interviews last 50 minutes each on average and all are carried out face-to-face. All data are made available quickly via a Web site and via the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. A Board of Overseers, consisting of outstanding scholars from the electoral research community, advises the principal investigators and serves as representatives of the larger community of users of the ANES data. There are opportunities for the diverse national social science community to participate directly in the design and execution of ANES studies. There are resources for improving the quality of the core ANES time-series data and for testing innovations in theory, measurement, and data collection.This research constitutes the most important database for the study of American politics and American political behavior.