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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><u><span style="background:yellow">CORRECTION: Sorry, the initial
email incorrectly noted the due date as August 2. It is Monday, August 5 by 5
pm. Original message follows below.<span></span></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Graduate Students,<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As part of Dr. Merolla’s retention package, she received
funding for a module on the Cooperative Election Study (CES, formerly CCES).
She plans to use about a third of the 15 minutes of survey time and is making 8-10
minutes of survey time available for graduate students and faculty.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Background on the CES is here: <a href="https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/">https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/</a> <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR QUESTIONS
ARE PART OF THE TEAM CONTENT, MEANING THE SURVEY SAMPLE SIZE WILL BE 1,000
SUBJECTS.<span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you are interested in including questions on this CES
module, 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 questions you are asking have been
asked on other surveys and explain why they should be included on this one.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In addition, you must submit the precise questions 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.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I have also attached 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 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.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please also note that anything placed on the CES requires
IRB approval. Obtaining approval is not an issue (I will take care of it), 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.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Proposals should be submitted (via email as a single
document) to Dan Biggers by <b><u><span style="background:yellow">5:00 pm on August 5th</span>.</u>
</b>I apologize for the short timeline, but we only just found out that we
would be able to get a module. <b><u>Late
proposals will only be considered if there is available time after the review
of all on-time submissions.</u></b><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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 questions, 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.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u>In order to ensure that as many people as possible can
take advantage of this opportunity, NO individual will be granted more than two
minutes of time. Please take this into account when crafting your proposal. Depending
on demand and the quality of proposals, we may need to limit individuals to one
minute of time. As such, if your proposal is longer than 1 minute, please
indicate how, if necessary, it could be trimmed to a single minute of time.<span></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dan<span></span></p>
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