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Trends in NSF Political Science Program Activity, 1975–1979

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2022

Gerald C. Wright Jr.
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The data presented here were initially compiled as part of a background report for the May 19–20, 1980, meeting for oversight review of the NSF Political Science Program. These data on proposed loads, funding levels, and success rates are from the Foundation's proposal information data base. In sharp contrast to the criteria by which proposals submitted to the Program are reviewed, my goal here is purely desriptive. No attempt at explanation is ventured here beyond indicating a few specifics that seem important in interpreting changes in the data series.

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Research Article
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , Fall 1980 , pp. 420 - 427
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1980

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References

1 By current procedures research programs at NSF undergo oversight review once every three years. This year's Oversight Committee reviewed the Sociology Program as well as Political Science. The subcommittee that reviewed the Political Science Program wass chaired by Robert L. Causey of the Department of Philosophy, the University of Texas at Austin. Other members were John O. Ledyard, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science, Northwestern University; Raymond Wolfinger, Department of Political Science, University of California; and Dina Zinnes, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana.

2 For a discussion of the National Elections Studies grant see Dawson, Richard, “Report on NSF Political Science Program,” PS: Political Science & Politics (Winter 1978)Google Scholar as well as the several NES information items that have been published in previous issues of PS.

3 For an evaluation of the review procedures of the Political Science Program, interested readers may wish to read the “Report of the 1980 Oversight Review of the NSF Program in Political Science.” Copies are available from Dr. Otto N. Larsen, Director, Division of Social and Economic Science, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. 20650.