Completed Projects

A 2014 workshop targeted at university and college faculty in the social sciences residing in Africa who are in the early stages of their academic careers.

A study of state repression/human rights violation and the circumstances involved with their use as it steps away from the largely invariant structural characteristics highlighted within the existing literature.

Providing enhanced access to two seminal social science data resources – the American National Election Studies (ANES) and General Social Survey (GSS).

This project provided coverage of all UN Human Rights Agreements from 1945 to present, in order to make more systematic analysis of these agreements possible.

How do sustainable development interventions affect the ways that rural households recover from disasters?

This project provided economic empowerment fellowship opportunities to women and minority entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, small business owners, and business development activists from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

The EITM Summer Institutes facilitate a rigorous and productive dialogue between theoretical and empirical analysis in political science.

This project assessed the level-amount of social capital in Qatar.

This project focused on how differences in the personal characteristics of leaders affect decision-making and competence in situations involving conflicts between countries.

This project collected and analyzed subnational data on two general kinds of factors: 1) the effectiveness of aid projects measured at the subnational level; 2) contextual variables also measured at the subnational level.

This project examined the overlap between levels of poverty and forest cover between 2000 and 2010

This project studied two particular situations – the killing of a suspect by police and the resulting public protests; and the effects of marijuana legalization upon the occurrence of crime in neighboring regions.

A pan-GCC survey of attitudes toward further regional integration and GCC expansion among the citizens of its member states.

A multi-year partnership to establish, develop and grow SESRI to be the preeminent social science research organization in Qatar and a leading contributor to social science research in the broader arena of the Arab Gulf.

This competition offered an award of $2,000 and placement on a panel at a major political science conference to scholars who publish an article in which the hypotheses and design were registered before the data were publicly available.

This project presented a new way for social scientists to achieve greater data sharing and research transparency.

This project developed anew hypotheses concerning congressional strategies of delegation, the policy outputs of agencies, and bureaucrats’ motivations for serving as federal employees.

A survey of 1000 scientific policy leaders about their views on science and virtue and their current thinking about the translation of these ethical virtues into research practices.

This project’s central aim was the training of the next generation of international social scientists.

This project addresses the skills gap facing junior Arab social scientists in MENA that limits their ability to produce rigorous, data-based, problem-focused research at the highest levels.

The workshop enabled university-based scholars and data-focused program directors to improve policy and the delivery of both formal and informal educational services throughout the nation.