The Democratic Innovations program aims to promote new ideas and rigorous theoretical and empirical research on how to achieve honest, efficient, representative, and effective government.
Political Economy
The Democratic Innovations program aims to promote new ideas and rigorous theoretical and empirical research on how to achieve honest, efficient, representative, and effective government. Examples of research topics in this spirit include, but are not limited to, methods for controlling political corruption, the effects of alternative voting systems, methods for encouraging high-quality candidates, the political economy of evidence use in policy-making, the empirical properties of deliberative assemblies, development of new technologies for collective decisions, studies of existing innovative institutions, or pilot demonstrations or experiments to assess the properties of proposed innovations.
ISPS especially encourages early career faculty and researchers to apply for this funding, although we will give full consideration to proposals from faculty at all career stages.
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Applicants must be full-time Yale faculty, Postdoctoral fellows, or doctoral students enrolled in a graduate degree program in the Yale Graduate School or a Yale professional school. We especially encourage proposals from ISPS-affiliated faculty and researchers.
ISPS encourages early career faculty and researchers to apply for this funding, although we will consider proposals from faculty and researchers at all career stages.
U.S. citizenship is not required.