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We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2017 Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Seed Grant Awards. The following project proposals demonstrated excellent intellectual merit and the potential to develop new theories, new areas of methodological innovation, and bridge different substantive domains.

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Robert Y. Shapiro, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government

Kevin J. Elliott, Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 1, 2016

A new social science collaboration on science, technology and society with École Polytechnique, co-organized by historian Pamela Smith, held its first panel on "Science, Technology and the Logics of Preventive War," which featured panelists including political scientist Robert Jervis and others.

The historian Fritz Stern fled the Nazis and helped pioneer the study of German history in the US. Before his death this year, he had been warning for some time of the signs of a resurgent fascism. He was not talking about the land of his birth. Fascism in the US? The fear is surely overblown. Before we write it off, though, we might ponder what we have learnt about fascism in general, thanks to the work of Stern and others.