Limited Submission Opportunity – American National Election Studies (ANES) Competition (ANES)

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Internal Limited Submission Deadline to the Office of Research Administration: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 5pm.

NSF Deadline: April 20, 2018

Synopsis of the Program (18-519):

The American National Election Studies (ANES) produce high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. The mission of the ANES is to inform explanations of election outcomes by providing data that support rich hypothesis testing, maximize methodological excellence, measure many variables, and promote comparisons across people, contexts, and time. The ANES serves this mission by providing researchers with a view of the political world through the eyes of ordinary citizens.

The Political Science Program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences expects to make two awards for the 2020 Presidential election cycle with the award to run from fiscal years 2018 to 2021. We anticipate that NSF will make two awards totaling no more than $11.5 million over four years. One will be for the traditional face-to-face survey. The second will be for a web-based survey. While these will be independent awards, the two awardees will be expected to work closely together. The expected start date is July 2018.

The ANES awards will fund the following activities:
ANES Face to Face award

  • Data collection for the ANES around the 2020 presidential election
  • Pre- and Post-election face to face interviews
  • Sample based on a random probability based sample
  • Survey instrument development for the ANES
  • Survey design, innovations, and continual enhancement of the survey and survey items
  • Participation in the Cooperative Study of Electoral Systems in the post-election survey
  • Post data collection editing, processing, and generation of constructed variables, data files and codebooks
  • Data dissemination through a cutting-edge web-based data archive
  • Support for the Board
  • Interaction with the principal investigators of the GSS and PSID
  • Interaction and coordination with the principal investigators of the ANES Web to create common content across the two modes

ANES Web

  • Data collection for the ANES around the 2020 presidential election
  • Pre- and Post-election web interviews
  • Sample based on a random probability based sample
  • Survey instrument development for the ANES
  • Survey design, innovations, and continual enhancement of the survey and survey items
  • Develop the survey to act as a true mode comparison with the Face to Face instrument
  • Post data collection editing, processing, and generation of constructed variables, data files and codebooks
  • Data dissemination through a cutting-edge web-based data archive
  • Support for the Board
  • Interaction with the principal investigators of the GSS and PSID
  • Interaction and coordination with the principal investigators of the ANES Face to Face award to create common content across the two modes

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization:

Institutions are restricted to submitting only one proposal for this solicitation. The one proposal can be for either the ANES Face-to-Face Competition or for the ANES WEB Competition.

For full program details visit NSF’s ANES webpage.

For details regarding The University of Akron’s limited submission process, visit the ORA Limited Submission webpage.