American National Election Studies
Founded in 1948, the core mission of the American National Election Study (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...
Principal Investigator(s):Nicholas A Valentino
Arab Barometer
The Arab Barometer was established in 2005 by the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan in close collaboration with institutions and scholars in the Arab world. The project is a multi-country survey project that provides data for theory-driven scholarly inquiry and for...
Principal Investigator(s):Mark A Tessler
Cohesion under Crisis: Concepts, Measures, Implications
The four-year project, “Cohesion under Crisis: Concepts, Measures, Implications,” will investigate the role of social cohesion in weathering crisis, focusing on the Indo-Pacific region: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Vietnam. Leveraging the skills of a team of researchers...
Principal Investigator(s):Allen D Hicken, Dan Slater
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is a collaborative, cross-national program of comparative electoral behavior among over 60 election study teams from around the world. The CSES allows examination into how societal, political, economic and structural contexts shape citizen behavior...
Principal Investigator(s):Ken Kollman, David Anthony Howell
Conflict & Peace, Research & Development
This is a scholarly community focused on political conflict and peace through the use of rigorous, evidence-based research as well as community-building related efforts around relevant themes. The Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (C&P, R&D or CPRD) group comprises...
Principal Investigator(s):Christian Davenport
Election Forensics
Election forensics are statistical methods used to determine whether the results of an election accurately reflect citizens’ voting behavior. These methods rely on the analysis of officially reported election results, and are often conducted at the level of polling stations, precincts or ballot...
Principal Investigator(s):Walter R Mebane Jr
Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institutes
The summer institute on Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) facilitates a rigorous and productive dialogue between theoretical and empirical analysis in political science. The EITM research approach is based on the premise that attention to the logical relationships between...
Principal Investigator(s):Christopher Jennings Fariss
International Center for the Advancement of Scientific Literacy (ICASL)
Founded in 1991, the International Center for the Advancement of Scientific Literacy (ICASL) has worked with a wide array of scholars and institutions throughout the world to facilitate and coordinate the measurement and advancement of scientific literacy. The International Center holds the largest...
Principal Investigator(s):Jon Miller
Latin American Elections Hub
The Latin American Elections Hub (LATAM-EH) aims to enhance dialogue between the U.S. audience—particularly in Michigan and the Midwest—and Latin America. To achieve this, the hub organizes panels to discuss the most significant elections in the region, their relevance to the U.S., and the...
Principal Investigator(s):Edgar Franco
Local Patterns of Election-Related Violence and Peace
This project is a partnership between the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) and University of Michigan, with support from the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) to leverage election observer missions and local election results to inform the challenges of building...
Principal Investigator(s):Anne Pitcher
Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY), Extending into a Study of Aging
The Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY) is a three-cohort two-generation longitudinal study of national samples of public school students in the United States. The two original cohorts consisted of national probability samples of 7th and 10th grade students selected in 1987. These young...
Principal Investigator(s):Jon Miller
Mobilizing Social Assets for Productive Use of Renewable Energy in Rural Tanzania
Building on research and data from the “Transformations in Poverty and Property Rights in Rural Tanzania” project (2009-present), the key objectives of this study are to:Strengthen understanding of the types of social assets that can advance productive uses of renewable energy...
Principal Investigator(s):Kelly M Askew
The Consequences of Contention
This project seeks to understand how diverse forms of political conflict and violence (e.g. genocide, civil war [insurgency/counter-insurgency], human rights violations, protest, protest policing, terrorism, counter-terrorism, revolution, counter-revolution) influence various key political and...
Principal Investigator(s):Christian Davenport
The Continent of International Law (COIL)
The Continent of International Law (COIL) research program lies at the intersection of international relations and international law. Principal Investigator Koremenos argues that the design provisions of international law matter, and, when chosen correctly, help states confront harsh...
Principal Investigator(s):Barbara Koremenos
The Elections Archive (THEA, formerly CLEA)
The Elections Archive (THEA) is an archive of detailed, subnational election results and associated materials. Our motivation is to preserve and consolidate these valuable data in one comprehensive and reliable resource that is ready for analysis and publicly available at no cost. This public good...
Principal Investigator(s):Ken Kollman, Allen D Hicken
Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)
Academic researchers, policy practitioners, and the general public alike have come to depend on indicators of democracy such as the Freedom House and Polity indexes. Such indicators are used to trace waves of democracy, educate students about world politics, test theories about the causes and...
Principal Investigator(s):Allen D Hicken
World Values Survey (WVS)
The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. In order to monitor changes in values and understand their implications, the WVS has...
Principal Investigator(s):Jon Miller, Ragnhild Nordaas
xSub: Cross-National Data of Sub-National Violence
xSub is a repository of micro-level, subnational event data on armed conflict and contention around the world. Our goal is to preserve and consolidate multiple open-source data collections in one comprehensive electronic archive, creating a “database of databases” for purposes of research,...
Principal Investigator(s):Christian Davenport