APSA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2007 Small Research Grant Program. This year, awards averaging $1,636 went to 11 proposals. The Small Research Grant Program supports research in all fields of political science, designed to support the research of political scientists who are not employed at Ph.D.-granting institutions. For more information on the program and application procedures, please visit the APSA web site at www.apsanet.org/section_509.cfm. The 2008 Small Research Grant competition cycle reopens December 1, 2007.
- Henry Laurence, Bowdoin College, “Airwaves and the Common Good: Digital Television and Spectrum Management in Britain, Japan, and the U.S.”
- Helen J. Knowles, SUNY Oswego, “The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Kennedy on Liberty”
- Maria Koinova, American University of Beirut, “Are Diasporas a Moderating or Radicalizing Factor During the Post-Conflict Reconstruction of Divided Societies? Lebanese and Albanian Diasporas in a Comparative Perspective”
- John Baughman, Bates College, “The Development of Representation in the Antebellum Congress”
- Kenneth Wayne Moffett, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, “Parties and the Use of Suspended Rules in the Post-Reform House”
- Steven T. Wuhs, University of the Redlands, “The Topography of Local Party Organization in Mexico”
- Shannon Jenkins, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, “Party Organizational Culture”
- Kiki Caruson, University of South Florida, “America's Shadow Foreign Policy: International Agreement Making and the Consequences for Democratic Accountability in the U.S.”
- William D. Anderson, University of South Dakota, “The Dynamics of Presidential Position-Taking in the U.S. House of Representatives”
- Craig T. Borowiak, Haverford College, “Accountability and Global Civil Society”
- Joyce P. Kaufman, Whittier College, “What Happened to the Women? Women's Political Activism in Northern Ireland, Pre- and Post-Belfast Agreement”
