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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hi Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Just a reminder that proposals are due <b><u>this Wednesday (6/15) by 5pm</u></b>. Also, please note that the attached Common Content is from 2020 but is unlikely to change much for this year’s survey. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Daniel Biggers [<a href="mailto:biggers@ucr.edu">mailto:biggers@ucr.edu</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 02, 2022 10:38 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:poscgrad@lists.ucr.edu">poscgrad@lists.ucr.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Opportunity for Graduate Students to Field Survey Items on the CES<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Please note due date of 5:00 pm on June 15th</span></u></b><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dear Graduate Students,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Background on the CES is here: <a href="https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/">https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEPARTMENT QUESTIONS ARE PART OF THE TEAM CONTENT, MEANING THE SURVEY SAMPLE SIZE WILL BE 1,000 SUBJECTS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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 <b><u>MUST</u></b> be properly formatted for CES submission, and your proposal <b><u>MUST</u></b> 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).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Proposals should be submitted (via email as a single document) to Dan Biggers by <b><u><span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>5:00 pm on June 15th</span>. Late proposals will only be considered if there is available time after the review of all on-time submissions.</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>