[Poscgrad] Opportunity for Graduate Students to Field Survey Items on the CES

[Daniel Biggers]

Please note due date of 5:00 pm on June 15th

 

Dear Graduate Students,

 

The department is putting together a series of questions to be included on
the Cooperative Election Study (CES, formerly CCES) and is making some of
our limited space available for graduate students.

 

Background on the CES is here: https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/ 

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEPARTMENT QUESTIONS ARE PART OF THE TEAM CONTENT,
MEANING THE SURVEY SAMPLE SIZE WILL BE 1,000 SUBJECTS.

 

If you are interested in including questions on the Team Content of the CES,
please write a short proposal (1-2 pages) that identifies your specific
research question and how the items included will provide leverage for
addressing your research question with respect to the literature to which
your work speaks. Proposals should explain how including these questions
will help facilitate your research agenda (whether dissertation or a
specific paper). Please also note whether the question(s) you are asking has
been asked on other surveys and explain why it should be included on this
one.

 

In addition, you must submit the precise question(s) including response
categories you would like to have included. Make sure to include any
randomization rules, branching rules (e.g., ask version 1 if race=white),
etc. Finally, the proposed questions MUST be properly formatted for CES
submission, and your proposal MUST include an estimate of the time it
requires and state the relative importance of on which part of the module it
appears (must appear on pre- or post-election survey, prefer it appears on
pre/post, no preference). Please see the attached document for guidelines on
question formatting and timing from the 2020 CCES (the content of this
document will likely not change for 2022, but I will circulate the updated
version when it is available from YouGov).

 

When it is available, I will also circulate the Common Content for both the
pre- and post-election surveys. The Common Content contains the questions
that will be asked of respondents outside of our Team Content. Please look
it over (when I make it available) and ensure any questions you wish to ask
are not already going to be asked. In addition, you may wish to branch off
these questions. If you would like to see the Common Content from 2020 to
get a sense of the types of questions usually asked on this portion of the
survey, please email me.

 

Please also note that anything placed on the CES requires IRB approval.
Obtaining approval is not an issue (and will be taken care of by faculty),
but it does require that every participant complete the relevant online
training. If you have not yet done so (or if your training is out of date),
please either do so or plan to do so immediately following notification that
your proposal has been accepted.

 

Proposals should be submitted (via email as a single document) to Dan
Biggers by 5:00 pm on June 15th. Late proposals will only be considered if
there is available time after the review of all on-time submissions.

 

Proposals will be evaluated (by a committee) based on the extent to which
you demonstrate the link to your research project, the extent to which the
project makes a clear contribution (to the literature on your question),
whether the items they tap are otherwise available from other resources, the
clarity of the question, their appropriateness for the CES given its unique
structure, and the amount of time they take to administer. Priority will be
given to those students who have or plan to have defended their prospectus
by the end of the summer, but all proposals will be considered.

 

Only under extraordinary circumstances will one proposal be granted more
than a minute of time, so please take this into account when crafting your
proposals.

 

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

 

Best,

Dan

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