Center for Political Studies
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
P.O. Box 1248
Ann Arbor, MI
48106-1248

Voice: (734) 763-1348
Fax: (734) 764-3341

CPS facilitates, supports, and promotes a broad range of research projects including democratic transitions, political and social mobilization and participation, global environmental change, international peace and security, and surveys of attitudes on social and political issues and concerns.

• 2004 National Politics Study (NPS)
• The 25th Annual Summer Meeting of the Political Methodology Society
• American National Election Studies (ANES)
• Arab Barometer
• Assessment of Voting Technology and Ballot Design
• Building Expertise and Institutional Capacity for Public Opinion Research in Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, and Oman
• Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
• Compliance with the Laws of War
• Computational Models for Belief Revision, Group Decisions, and Cultural Shifts
• Consequences of Party System Inflation
• Contribution to Democracy in the Arab World Through Survey Research: Incorporating Arab Countries into the Global Democracy Barometer Project
• Deepening the Links Between Regional Russian Universities and the Community of Scholars
• Deliberative Citizenship
• DHB Games Theory, Culture, and Institutional Path Dependence
• Diagnosing, Modeling, Interpreting, and Leveraging Spatial Relationships in Time-Series-Cross-Section Data
• Dynamics of Political Representation and Political Rhetoric (DHB)
• Electoral and Party Systemic Institutions, Structure, and Strategic Context: Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models of Effective Democratic Representation
• Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM)
• Genetics and Stigma: The Role of the Mass Media
• Human Component of Social Change
• Mass Media, Emotions, and Responses to Globalization
• National Education Goals and Federal Compensatory Education Policies from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush
• Nature and Determinants of Regime Preference and Political Values in Jordan, Kuwait, and Palestine: Implications for Arab Politics and for the Comparative Study of Governance and Democracy
• Prosecuting and Treating Juveniles as Adults: A Policy Research Proposal
• Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS)
• Title VIII Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union
• Training a New Generation of Russian Social Scientists and Diffusing Social Science Expertise to Russian Regional Universities
• World Values Survey