Department of Political Science

Political Science
1414 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-4144
Fax: 612-626-7599
E-mail: polisci@umn.edu

Chair: Raymond D. Duvall

For Current Graduate Students

Grant applications and Deadlines

  • Call for application travel grant: Dealine: Feb. 29th 5pm. The Ph.D. Minor in Political Psychology at the University of Minnesota invites all eligible graduate students to submit a proposal for travel to an academic conference to present a paper, awards between $500-$750 will be made. Click here for more information.
  • Call for application research grant: Dealine: Feb. 29th 5pm The Ph.D. Minor in Political Psychology at the University of Minnesota invites all eligible graduate students to submit a proposal for supplemental funds to pursue their research (either solo research, research in collaboration with another graduate student, or research in collaboration with a faculty member). Awards between $500-1000 will be made. Click here for more information.

Archives

  • Application for interdisciplinary seed grants . Deadline: Dec. 1st. The Center for the Study of Political Psychology (CSPP) and the Ph.D. Minor in Political Psychology would like to announce the availability of seed grant funding for explicitly interdisciplinary projects in political psychology. Grants will range in value, with the maximum being $5,000 for one year.

    Seed grant proposals should be interdisciplinary in two respects: (1) they should address substantive theoretical and empirical questions in political psychology from a perspective that reaches across disciplinary boundaries; and (2) they should involve a research team consisting of faculty and graduate students from multiple disciplines (in political science, psychology, mass communication, etc.). Of course, interdisciplinary alone will not be the sole criterion for funding: the proposed projects must advance theory and research in political psychology in a substantive, meritorious, and feasible way and they must also involve a potential for long-term collaboration among members of the research team . Investigators who receive funding are expected to use the seed money to generate initial research that can subsequently be published and/or used in applications for larger external grants. Finances can be used for research assistants, research equipment, payments for study participants, surveys, guest speakers, and so on. For details please click here.

  • Excellence opportunity for research!

    The American National Election Studies invites scholars (faculty and graduate students alike) to evaluate new questions from the 2006 Pilot Study. The purpose of the Pilot Study was to implement new ideas for measuring important concepts. Now that these data are available, scholars may submit reports analyzing as many new questions as they like.Ideally, a Pilot Study report will speak to the stated goals of the original study and will contain one of two kinds of analyses: (1) an examination of wording/order/format experiments, and/or (2) analyses of sets of items, for the purposes of assessing correlational validity. The ANES has already received reports from the original authors of the proposals that generated the questions. They may be viewed at: http://www.electionstudies.org/resources/papers/pilotrpt.htm . The ANES will accept Pilot Study reports from the public on a rolling basis beginning July 1, 2007. Submissions will be reviewed and, if they meet the above criteria, posted on the ANES website. Depending on the number and quality of the reports, the ANES will publish them in an edited volume with a leading university press. The book is tentatively titled, “The ANES Book of Ideas,” and will help scholars better understand key properties of election study data. For more information, visit http://www.electionstudies.org or contact Matthew DeBell, the Director of Stanford Operations for the ANES ( debell@stanford.edu ).


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