RAPID: Collaborative Research: Recovery Spending and Citizen Expectations

本研究调查了公民和政策制定者根据2009年复苏法案参加刺激资金的方式。这项研究开发了新的方法来估计刺激资金对公民的看法和当地社区决策者的选择的影响。该项目利用了另一项准备进入该领域的研究设计。该项目在匹配的社区中抽取公民和公职人员样本，并建立一个小组。这里增加的研究将增加主题小组的规模，改变我们返回社区的频率，并使我们能够研究对刺激支出的预期，以及随后根据2009年复苏法案刺激支出的短期影响。大量的研究将讨论2009年复苏法案的经济影响。资金流入政府机构的社会和政治方面的问题将不太为人所知。这项研究将使我们能够了解公民对政府的信任如何与刺激支出和政府官员的行为有关。该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。

This research investigates the ways that citizens and policy makers attend to stimulus funds under the Recovery Act of 2009. The research develops new methods to estimate the impact of stimulus funds on the perceptions of citizens and the choices of local community decision makers. The project leverages another research design that is preparing to go into the field. That project draws a sample of citizens and public officials across matched communities and builds a panel. The research added here will increase the size of the panel of subjects, changes how often we return to the communities and allows us to study expectations for stimulus spending and, subsequently, the short-term impact of stimulus spending under the Recovery Act of 2009. Substantial research will debate the economic effects of the Recovery Act of 2009. The social and political aspects of the influx of money into government institutions will be less understood. This research will enable us to understand how citizen trust in government is related to stimulus spending and the actions of public officials. This relates to broader questions of citizen confidence in democratic institutions.This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).