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Funded Proposals Years 3-4
(Last Updated: January 13, 2005)

 
Civic Education

Principal Investigator

 

Project Title

Sheldon Berman, Hudson High School, Hugh McIntosh, and James Youniss, Catholic University "A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of a Comprehensive High School Civic Engagement Intervention in Hudson, MA"
David E. Campbell, Notre Dame University "Schools and Civic Norms"

Bernadette Chi, East Bay Conservation Corps, JoAnn Jastrzab, Abt Associates Inc., and Alan Melchoir, Brandeis University

"Developing Indicators and Measures of Civic Outcomes for Elementary School Students"
Melissa Comber, University of Maryland, Doctoral Candidate "An Empirical Assessment of the Production of Civic Skills"

Diana Hess, University of Wisconsin, Madison

"How Deliberating Controversial Issues in High School Courses Influences Civic Learning and Participation"
Mary Kirlin, California State University Sacramento "From Theory to Practice: Developing a Model of Civic Skills Acquisition among Adolescents"
J. Celeste Lay, University of Maryland, Doctoral Candidate

"Building Good Citizens: The Roles of School Size and Community Context in the Development of Democratic Values"

Meira Levinson, Boston Public Schools

"Making a Difference: Civic and Multicultural Education in an Age of Segregation and Diversity"

Nicholas Longo, Brown University, Doctoral Candidate

"The Role of Community in the Civic Mission of Schools"
Michael McDevitt, University of Colorado and Spiro Kiousis, University of Florida "The Civic Bonding of School and Family: The Influence of Kids Voting USA in Priming the Domestic Sphere"*
Richard Niemi, University of Rochester and Nancy Niemi, Nazareth College "The Content and Focus of High School Civics Teaching: A Proposal for Direct Observation"

John Phillips, Yale University, Doctoral Candidate

"The Relationship Between Secondary Education and Civic Development: Results from Two Field Experiments with Inner-City Minorities" *

Judith Torney-Purta, University of Maryland

"CEDARS Project (Civic Education Data Archive and Researcher Services)"
Roderick Watts, Georgia State University and Omo Moses, Young People's Project "Civil Rights Activists in the Information Age: The Development of Math Literacy Workers in the Young People's Project"

Joel Westheimer, University of Ottawa

"Civic Intentions: A Study of Schools that Teach Democratic Values"


Political Participation & Voting

Principal Investigator

 


Project Title

Elizabeth Addonizio, David Ogle, and Beth Weinberger, Yale University "First-time Voter Program: A Proposal to Increase Voter Turnout among 18 Year-Olds"*
Lance Bennett, University of Washington "The 2004 Youth Election Web Sphere"

Constance Flanagan, Penn State University and James Knauer, Lock Haven University

"The Political Potential of Online Deliberative Dialogue"

Ivan Frishberg, the State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs)

"New Jersey November 2003 Election Precinct Test"

Roderick Hart, Sharon Jarvis, and Lisa Montoya, Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation, University of Texas

"The Political Participation of Working Youth: Examining Social Ties"

Ed Horowitz, University of Oklahoma

"The Political Socialization of Adolescents and the 2003 Baltimore Primary Election"

Jill Ireland, University of South Dakota

"Political Participation of Native Americans Age 18-25 on South Dakota Reservations"
Nancy Brown Johnson and Paul Jarley, University of Kentucky "The Impact of Trade Union Youth Programs on Young Workers' Political Engagement and Participation"
Jane Junn, Rutgers University "Immigrant Political Incorporation in the U.S.: Mobilizing Ethnic Group Consciousness"
James Ricker, Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland "The Role of Youth and Universities in Mobilizing Social Movements"
Merrill Shanks, Douglas Strand, Henry Brady, and Edward Carmines, Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley "Generations, Agendas, and Participation"*
Daniel M. Shea, Allegheny College "Throwing a Better Party: Mobilizing Institutions and the Youth Vote"


Youth Civic Engagement

Principal Investigator

 


Project Title

Melanie Daniels and Marilyn Gillespie, SRI International

"Survey of Civic Learning Opportunities for Out-Of-School Youth in the Adult Education and Literacy System"

Lene Jensen and James Youniss, Catholic University

"Why We Are Engaged in Civic Society: In the Words of Immigrant Youth"

Alex Steppick and Carol Dutton Steppick, Florida International University

"Civic Engagement among Immigrant and Native Minority Youth"

Tom Smith, NORC

"Studying Civic Engagement Across Time and Cohorts"

Jennifer O'Donoghue, Stanford University, Doctoral Candidate

"Powerful Spaces: Urban Youth, Community Organizations, and Democratic Action"*

2004 Presidential Election: Randomized Experiments

Principal Investigator

 

Project Title

Kevin Arceneaux, Yale University, Postdoctoral Fellow

"Campaign Mobilization and the Transmission of Political Information"

James Gimpel, University of Maryland and Daron Shaw, University of Texas

"Field Experiments Testing the Effects of Voter Contacting"

David Nickerson, Notre Dame University

"What is the Effect of Negative versus Positive Campaign Tactics on Young Voters?"

Janelle Wong and Ricardo Ramirez, University of Southern California

"Getting out the Vote Among Asian Americans and Latinos"

 

*continuation grant