Collaborative Research: Primary Elections for U.S. State and Federal Offices: A Comprehensive Database and Analysis

合作研究：美国州和联邦办公室初选：综合数据库和分析

• 批准号: 0617555
• 负责人: John Hansen
• 金额: $ 5.55万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0617555&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Primary; Elections; U.S.

The emergence of the primary election process during the 20th Century is widelythought to have transformed American politics. For example, primary electionsallegedly weakened political parties and fueled the rise of personalistic, incumbencyoriented politics; and primary elections are though to have made politicians much moreideologically extreme than the electorate as a whole, because candidates must first winapproval of a partisan subset of the electorate before they can even qualify for thegeneral election.Addressing even the most basic questions about this two-stage process is difficultbecause no comprehensive database on primary election results in the U.S. currentlyexists. This project assembles a database on primary elections for statewide andfederal offices. For each state, we collect election returns for every statewide andfederal office for major-party primary elections from the year the first primaries wereheld to the present.Our project yields broad educational and social benefits including useful digitaldatabases archived at the ICPSR and on our own websites, publications in a variety ofmedia, data sets made available to state election boards and/or secretaries of state,research collaboration between three major educational institutions, mentoring andemploying research assistants who are women and under-represented minorities, andprofessionalization of undergraduates and graduate students who co-author with theprincipal investigators.

在20世纪，主要选举过程的出现被广泛思考，改变了美国政治。例如，主要选举削弱了政党，并助长了个人主义，具有谨慎政治的兴起；不过，初选的选举使政治家比整个选民都更加极端，因为候选人必须首先在选民中赢得党派的子集，甚至在他们甚至有资格参加将军选举之前。阶段过程很难，因为在美国目前的主要选举结果没有全面的数据库。该项目汇编了有关全州和菲德尔办事处的主要选举的数据库。对于每个州，我们都会为每一个全州和芬特部办公室收集选举回报，以召集首年的大选初选。 ，各种媒体的出版物，国家选举委员会和/或国家秘书，三个主要的教育机构之间的研究合作，指导和雇用妇女的研究助理，以及代表性不足的少数群体，以及本科生的专业化和专业化的研究助理与原理调查员的合着者。