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note the due date of 5:00 pm on July 3rd</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Graduate Students,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I am purchasing a ½ module on the Cooperative Election Study
(CES). I will have somewhere between 4-5 minutes to offer to graduate students.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Background on the CES is here: <a href="https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/research-faculty/research-centers/cooperative-election-study">https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/research-faculty/research-centers/cooperative-election-study</a> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR QUESTIONS ARE PART OF THE TEAM
CONTENT, MEANING THE SURVEY SAMPLE SIZE WILL BE 1,000 SUBJECTS.</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-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. <b>Proposals that do
not include this information will not be considered.</b> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Proposals should be submitted (via email as a single
document) to Jenn Merolla (<a href="mailto:merolla@ucr.edu">merolla@ucr.edu</a>) by <b><u>5:00 pm on July 3rd.</u> </b>I
apologize for the short timeline, but I am heading out of town and the survey instrument
is due mid-July. <b><u>Late proposals will only be considered if there is
available time after the review of all on-time submissions.</u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Proposals will be evaluated by me 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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-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 one
minute of time. Please take this into account when crafting your proposal. 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.</u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Best,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Jenn</p></div>