The Seventh Module of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)

选举制度比较研究（CSES）由来自60多个国家的研究人员组成，他们的共同目标是调查有关美国和世界各地选举、投票率和投票的关键问题。每个参与的研究人员都自己筹集资金，并使用商定的高质量科学方法从每个国家选择和采访一组具有代表性的人。访谈包括由CSES设计的问卷，每五年更改一次，以解决一系列新的重要问题。访谈结果将合并成一个单一的数据资源，其中包括有关其国家和选举制度的信息，并在中央社科院网站上免费分发。跨国家比较的能力有助于科学家、学生、政策制定者和公众更好地了解人们对选举和投票的感受和行为，他们发现自己所在的国家在多大程度上影响了他们，以及世界各地的选举如何以及为什么不同。该项目有两个主要目标：完成正在进行的模块6，该模块旨在支持关于压力下代议制民主中公民角色的新发现，并设计模块7。CSES模块6提供了来自50多个国家的数据，以促进有关公民如何看待其民主政治制度运作以及对选举态度和行为产生何种影响等问题的发现。为了完成模块6，该项目将继续审核、清理和协调来自世界各地的新贡献的选举研究数据集，并传播包含微观（个人）和宏观（地区、国家、行政）数据的个人和比较（跨国）数据集。为了设计模块7，CSES将成立一个新的国际规划委员会，该委员会将从世界各地的知名学者那里收集建议，并确定该模块的主题重点。除了这些核心活动外，该项目还设有一个新的“数据游乐场”，以传播对CSES数据集的认识和访问；支持并扩大该项目的国际和美国合作者网络；并继续为选举比较研究的科学方法制定新标准，通过白皮书、会议和其他活动传播这些意识。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。

The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is composed of researchers from more than 60 countries with the shared goal of investigating critical questions around elections, turnout, and voting in the United States and worldwide. Each participating researcher raises their own funding and uses agreed-upon, high-quality scientific methods to select and interview a representative set of persons from each country. The interview includes a questionnaire designed by the CSES and changed every five years to address a new set of important issues. The resulting interviews are combined into a single data resource with information about their countries and electoral systems which CSES distributes on its website at no cost. The ability to compare across countries helps scientists, students, policymakers, and the public better understand how people feel and behave around elections and voting, to what extent the country they find themselves within influences them, and how and why elections proceed differently across the world.The project has two broad goals: to complete in-progress Module 6, which is designed to support new discoveries regarding citizens’ roles in representative democracy under stress, and to design Module 7. CSES Module 6 provides data from 50+ countries to advance discoveries on questions regarding how citizens view the functioning of their democratic political systems, and with what consequences for electoral attitudes and behavior. To complete Module 6, the project will continue to audit, clean, and harmonize newly-contributed election study datasets from around the world and disseminate individual and comparative (cross-national) datasets that contain both micro (individual) and macro (district, country, administrative) data. To design Module 7, CSES will constitute a new international planning committee that will crowd-source proposals from leading scholars around the world and determine the thematic focus of that module. In addition to these core activities, the project features a new “data playground” to disseminate awareness of and access to CSES datasets; supports and expands the project’s network of international and US collaborators; and continues to set new standards for the scientific methods for the comparative study of elections, disseminating awareness of these via white papers, conferences, and other engagements.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.