1978 — 1982 |
Schneider, Mark Logan, John [⬀] |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
The Political Economy of Surburban Growth |
0.904 |
1985 — 1988 |
Schneider, Mark |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Bureaucrats, Competition and the Size of Local Government |
0.904 |
1985 |
Schneider, Mark |
F31Activity Code Description: To provide predoctoral individuals with supervised research training in specified health and health-related areas leading toward the research degree (e.g., Ph.D.). |
Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors @ State University New York Stony Brook |
0.936 |
1991 — 1994 |
Schneider, Mark Teske, Paul |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
The Political Economy of the Local Market For Public Goods: the Role of Entrepreneurs
Standard theories of the provision of municipal services hold that market forces operate to ensure the efficient provision of these public goods. The argument is that a market is created as citizens "shop around" among different municipalities deciding to settle down and live in the municipality that provides the best combination of high services/low taxes for the individual citizen. Underlying this theory, however, are contrary to evidence assumptions that most citizens are well informed about municipal services and taxes and that it is relatively easy for individuals to move from one community to another in search of the optimal combination. This award supports an ambitious program of research to test and refine the standard Tiebout model of urban political economy and the assumptions underlying it. The investigators will conduct a series of surveys to determine the role of individuals, businesses, and governments in the creation of efficient local markets for public goods. In particular, they will examine the possibility that a subsample of the public exists which is much better informed and more mobile than the norm and whose members serve, in effect, as mobility entrepreneurs, creating markets by their actions which benefit automatically other residents of the community. The project also considers the possibility that politicians play active roles in creating markets by competing both for certain kinds of business and certain kinds of citizens as well. When completed this research should provide a better understanding of the dynamics that underlie the provision of municipal services in the United States. It should thereby establish a more rigorous, empirical basis for judging the efficiency and effectiveness of the provision of public goods by local governments.
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0.904 |
1992 — 1995 |
Cover, Albert Schneider, Mark |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Reu Site in Political Science
This award provides funds to the Department of Political Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook to establish a Research Experience for Undergraduates SITE. Through this program students will engage in research in one of several areas: political psychology, political economy, or the study of American institution. Via an intense eight-week immersion in an active research environment students will become aware of and excited by the nature of modern political science, in terms of the issues, studies and the theoretical approaches and methodologies used to study them. Students will be exposed to a broad sampling of the research techniques employed in modern political science. Specifically, experimental techniques emphasized in the study of political psychology as well as the econometric and statistical skills emphasized by faculty who study political economy and American institutions will be the primary focus of students' work. Recruitment efforts will center on small and regional colleges without research programs and colleges with large enrollments of minorities and women. Those selected to participate will reflect the recruiting focus. Support services, informal and structured experiences are planned to encourage graduate study and/or research-oriented careers.
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0.904 |
1994 — 1997 |
Schneider, Mark Teske, Paul |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Institutions, Incentives and Information
9408970 Schneider The delivery of services by local governments involves a complex series of steps going from the institutions that supply them to the citizens who use them. To improve the delivery of public services, many reformers now suggest eliminating some of these steps and having government imitate private markets, by increasing the number of suppliers and "empowering" citizens to shop around. This market model assumes consumers already know about the services they use or that they will search to find out about price and quality. While the costs of, and the incentives for, search in private markets are fairly well understood, the ability of "citizen/consumers" to gain information in the use of local public goods is not well known. This project will explore the process of information gathering in local public services, with a primary focus on education, perhaps the most important service provided by local governments. In recent years a few local school districts have established parental choice, breaking the tight relationship between household location and the schools that children must attend. Since these districts can be matched with others that have not introduced choice, we will examine if and how choice affects parental behavior and student performance. Specifically, using a research design matching districts with school choice to those without choice, this project will compare how citizen/consumers search for information and the quality of their information about schools. To test for a link between increased choice and citizen/consumer behavior, the project will survey residents in four communities with different public service delivery arrangements and different socioeconomic status. The project will: 1) examine the level and the accuracy of information citizens have about local public goods; 2) link these levels of information and the search processes to institutional structures that affect the incentives of individuals to gather and use information. In addition, the project will: 3)examine the networks of information in which local citizens operate and explore how these networks influence the quantity and the quality of information that citizens have; 2) examine the equity implications of search procedures, especially by comparing the networks in which individuals of different races and classes are embedded; and, examine the efficiency gains that better matching of student/consumer interest to school curricula can provide as shown by improvements in student test scores in math, science and reading. This project promises to substantially enhance our understanding of the topic.
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0.904 |
1997 — 1998 |
Schneider, Mark |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Workshop On Revitalizing Urban Democracy, April 1998 @ Russell Sage Foundation
This workshop is designed to bring together a group of political scientists representing a range of perspectives to explore the conditions necessary to revitalize urban democracy research. The workshop identifies places where basic research can help improve the functioning of urban democracy and the viability of urban communities. In addition, the workshop encourages a cross-fertilization of ideas and interaction between scholars who specialize in urban politics with scholars whose research focuses on democratic participation. The workshop combines the skills and perspectives of established scholars with those of younger investigators with a view toward helping create a future cadre of scholars engaged in issues of urban democracy. The output of the workshop will be an edited volume on revitalizing urban democracy that will be published by the Russell Sage Foundation.
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0.907 |
1998 — 2001 |
Scholz, John [⬀] Schneider, Mark |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Negotiating For Sustainable Development: An Evaluation of the Cbep Decision Process
This research extends an on-going investigation of community-based environmental protection agreements that have been implemented for watersheds in the United States. The research uses a transaction cost framework to analyze the factors constraining and facilitating cooperation among the administrators, politicians, and interest groups that negotiate policy agreements cutting across many political jurisdictions. The project consolidates information from more than 2,000 watersheds, interviews a large number of stakeholders from a sample of those watersheds, and then uses case study methods to intensively study a handful of watersheds. This research provides an enhanced understanding of the ways in which cooperative agreements can be tailored for specific institutional settings and environmental domains. Building on previous and on-going research, the present research implements a design that makes it possible to track how the institutions for establishing community-based environmental protection agreements evolve over time and how stakeholders' strategies for involvement change accordingly. ©Á ??%Á ? ?¥©Á? Á??%/>/¥??` Â/?¥??¢ ¥©Á ?/¥¥Á?> _??Á% ??%% ?Á ?¢Á? ¥? ??Á>¥?Â` ©?? ¢?Á??Â?? Á??>?_?? ?>Â??_/??> /ÂÂÁ?¥¢ Â?>/% ?Á??¢??> ??¥??_Á¢ «Á??Â??/¥??> ? ?Á¢?%¥¢ ?¢ /???_?%?¢©Á? ?` /??%`?>À ¥©Á _??Á% ¥? / ?Á??Á¢ Á>¥/¥??Á ¢/_?%Á ? ?/¢Á¢ />? Á?/_?>?>À ©?? ?%?¢Á%` ¥©Á _??Á% ?Á??Á¢Á>¥¢ ¥©Á ?Á??¢??> ????Á¢¢ />? ??¥??_Á¢ ¼©Á ??Á>¥?Â??/¥??> ? ?©/¥ Á??>?_?? >Â??_/¥??> ?¢ _?¢¥ ?¢ÁÂ?% />? ??Á???%Á ¥? ?Á??¢??> ?/?¥????/>¥¢ ?> Á?/%?/¥?>À Á>????>_Á>¥/% ?©/>ÀÁ¢ ??%% %Á/? ¥ ? _??Á ÁÂÂÁ?¥??Á ?>??????/¥??> ? Á>????>_Á>¥/% ?/%?Á¢ ?>¥? ???%?? ?Á??¢??>¢
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0.904 |
1998 — 2001 |
Scholz, John [⬀] Schneider, Mark |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
The Politics of Cooperation: Community-Based Enviornmental Protection
This research investigates community-based environmental protection agreements that have been implemented for watersheds in the United States. The research uses a transaction cost framework to analyze the factors constraining and facilitating cooperation among the administrators, politicians and interest groups that negotiate policy agreements cutting across many political jurisdictions. The project consolidates information from more than 2,000 watersheds, interviews a large number of stakeholders from a sample of those watersheds and then uses case study methods to intensively study a handful of watersheds. This research provides an enhanced understanding of the ways in which cooperative agreements can be tailored for specific institutional settings and environmental domains.
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0.904 |
2012 — 2013 |
Shapiro, Robert [⬀] Schneider, Mark |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Poverty Alleviation in Developing Nations
Poverty reduction is one of the central challenges for development in new democracies. Many of these democracies operate in a context of weak institutions, where policy implementation is subject to the discretion of politicians, This proposal investigates the strategies used to target private benefits and how voters' access to benefits affects their behavior. This project studies the conditions under which local politicians pursue partisan targeting strategies and when voters can circumvent these strategies.
This project consists of three components that combine quantitative and qualitative methods, including a dataset that compiles information on the number of families identified as poor by the government, the number of families issued benefits, the partisan composition of local governments and the state assembly units. These data are used to assess whether the number of households given access to anti-poverty programs across local government units is determined by political characteristics. The second component is a survey of voters and local politicians. These data are used to test individual-level hypotheses on partisan targeting bias, voter-intermediary strategies used to access benefits, and the ability of politicians to monitor votes across partisan contexts. Finally, focus group will be conducted to illuminate mechanisms found in the quantitative results. This research aims to provide a micro-level understanding of party-voter linkages and partisan strategies of clientelistic distribution that is applicable to a diverse range of democratic settings in the developing world.
The goal of this project is to identify the causes and consequences of party capture of anti-poverty programs, a problem that threatens efforts to alleviate poverty in many developing democracies. In addition to improving scholarly understanding of clientelistic strategies in a democratic context, the results will also be useful to the development and policy communities who are focused on improving the efficiency of these programs. Ultimately, the core ambition of this research is to provide analyses that can contribute to the fight against local corruption: a problem that has devastating effects on the lives of the poor.
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0.954 |