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Grants

Political Science faculty have received several grants and awards for research from National Science Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Ford Foundation, U.S. Agency for International Development, Kentucky Development, and US Institute for Peace to name a few.


Grant Awards


Faculty: Jillienne Haglund

Grant: National Science Foundation

Project Title: "Collaborative Research: Examining Compliance with Rights Regimes"

Funding: $110,354

Duration: August 1st, 2018-July 31st, 2021

Dr. Jillienne Haglund was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $110,354 to study state compliance with international human rights rulings and recommendations on women's rights issues.

Through her research, Dr. Haglund will create and disseminate a new dataset on women’s rights recommendations, the Women’s Rights Recommendation Digital Database, which will be used for a battery of statistical tests to identify the factors that affect compliance with international women’s rights recommendations. The database, statistical analyses, interviews, and case studies will provide insight into the macro-level factors that impact the effectiveness of women’s rights institutions and the processes behind compliance with international women’s rights recommendations. 

 

Previous Grant Recepients


Faculty: Kirk Randazzo & Richard Waterman
Grant: NSF
Funding: 68,795.00
Grant starts 09/01/2007 and ends 08/31/2008

 

Kirk Randazzo and Rick Waterman received a grant from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $68,795 to study the effects of statutory constraint on judicial behavior in federal and state courts. Their previous research demonstrates that judges decide cases according to their individual ideological preferences, contingent on the level of discretion afforded by the law. Therefore, legislatures (either Congress or state legislatures) can pass detailed statutes which significantly constrain behavior or they can pass vague statutes which provide increased discretion to judges. The financial support from the NSF will continue their research at the state and federal levels.


Faculty: Richard Fording
Funding: $60,000
January 2005-December 2006
“Putting Sanctions into Practice: Devolution, Privatization, and Caseworker Discretion in the Florida TANF Program,” with Sanford Schram and Joe Soss. Annie E. Casey Foundation (Grant # 205.0059). Awarded to conduct field research in Florida one-stop centers, in support of larger project on sanction implementation.


Faculty: Mark Peffley
Funding: $14,448.00
March 2008-August 2008
“Testing the Public's Responsiveness to News about Changes in Welfare Policy.” Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (Competitive award funded through University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, Internal Grants Program).