Collaborative Research: U.S. Institutions after COVID-19: Trust, accountability, and public perceptions

COVID-19颠覆了世界各地的社会、经济和政治制度。由于美国的异质性和联邦性质，美国面临着特殊的挑战。COVID - 19国家项目是一个大规模的数据收集项目，包括来自不同州样本的长期数据。该项目跟踪国家层面的大流行后恢复情况，研究诸如对机构的信任、信息获取和影响、问责制和经济不平等等主题。它还记录了联邦和州政策在涉及这些主题时如何影响民众。此外，COVID国家项目通过竞争调查模块时间，为来自所有背景、学术机构类型和职业阶段的研究人员提供访问机会，并提供一个用户友好的网站，其中包含数据跟踪器，供研究人员、学生、记者、政策制定者和公众使用。COVID国家项目在所有50个州和华盛顿特区进行长期的州级调查，每次调查包括多达3万名受访者，按州进行配额抽样。这允许在州和国家层面上进行一般化的推断。大流行后的数据为新的跨时间和跨空间研究设计提供了前所未有的机会。该项目对人口统计上的少数民族受访者进行了抽样调查，以促进对异质社会群体的研究。这包括对政治人物和制度、知识和信息、政治评价、行为适应、身体健康、经济福祉、心理健康等方面的信任数据。它还包含详细的社会网络电池，允许研究家庭间和群体间的健康和信息传递。这一结论还得到了调查对象提供的Twitter数据的补充。这使得该项目能够识别信息共享并研究政治话语。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。

COVID-19 upended social, economic, and political systems throughout the world. The United States has faced particular challenges due to its heterogeneity and federal nature. The COVID States project is a large-scale data collection that includes over-time data from diverse state-level samples. The project tracks state-level post-pandemic recovery, studying topics such as trust in institutions, information acquisition and impact, accountability, and economic inequality. It also documents how federal and state policies affect the populace when it comes to these topics. Further, the COVID States project provides access to researchers from all backgrounds, types of academic institutions, and career stages through a competition for survey module time and provides a user-friendly website with data trackers for use by researchers, students, journalists, policymakers, and the public.The COVID States project conducts over-time state-level surveys from all 50 states and D.C. Each survey includes up to 30,000 total respondents, using quota sampling by state. This allows for generalizable inferences at the state and national levels. Post-pandemic data provide an unprecedented opportunity for novel over-time and across-space research designs. The project over-samples demographic minority respondents to facilitate study of heterogeneous social groups. This includes data on trust in political figures and institutions, knowledge and information, political evaluations, behavioral adaptation, physical health, economic well-being, mental health, and more. It also contains detailed social network batteries that allow for the study of inter-household and inter-group transmission of health and information. This is complemented by Twitter data from survey respondents who allow it. This enables the project to identify information sharing and study political discourse.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.