American Institutions Project
Organization
- Ira Katznelson, Director
Overview
The American Institutions Project's distinctive approach to political development focuses primarily on Congress, regional issues, the treasury, and the military. At its core is the effort to create a data-set organized by a multilayered coding scheme that arrays spending, statutes, and roll calls substantively for all of the country's history. The Project's goals include promoting more robust ties between the domestic and international studies of American politics, deepening the engagement between the "American political development" subfield and "mainstream" political studies, constructing strong ties between the disciplines of History and Political Science, and connecting empirical studies to political and social theory.
See Also
- Research grant: Substance of Representation: Studying Policy Content and Legislative Performance
- Working paper: Policy Space and Voting Coalitions in Congress: the Bearing of Policy on Politics, 1930-1954
- Newsletter article: Lawmaking and Public Policy
