Project funding

The principal source of funding for the CIR research has been the National Science Foundation. Its two large grants and one small grant have contributed $642,000 to this research effort, a figure that includes the indirect costs charged by various public universities. Other funding sources have combined to provide an additional $150,000, with every funder who gave $5,000 or more listed below.

DemFund Gastil, J. (2015). Principal Investigator, The Democracy Fund. “2015-2016 Citizens’ Initiative Review Study and Reporting.” ($75,000)

Knobloch, K. R. (2014). Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation (Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences: Decision, Risk and Management Sciences, NSF Award #1357444, Amendment 001). “A Multi-State Investigation of Small Group and Mass Public Decision Making on Fiscal and Scientific Controversies through the Citizens’ Initiative Review: Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement.” ($6,000)

Gastil, J., & Knobloch, K. (2014). Co-Principal Investigators, National Science Foundation (Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences: Decision, Risk and Management Sciences, NSF Award #1357276/1357444). “Collaborative Research: A Multi-State Investigation of Small Group and Mass Public Decision Making on Fiscal and Scientific Controversies through the Citizens’ Initiative Review.” ($418,000)

Gastil, J. (2013). The Pennsylvania State University Social Science Research Institute. Award for summer workshop bringing together researchers investigating the Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review. ($5,000)  Additional funding for this event provided by Penn State’s McCourtney Institute for Democracy.

KFGastil, J., & Knobloch, K. (2012). Joint learning agreement (research contract) with the Kettering Foundation, with 76% of the budget allocated to Pennsylvania State University and 24% to Colorado State University. “Examining deliberation and the cultivation of public engagement at the 2012 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review” ($30,000).

Gastil, J. (2010). Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation (Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences: Decision, Risk and Management Sciences and Political Science Programs, NSF Award # 0961774), “Investigating the Electoral Impact and Deliberation of the Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review” ($218,000).

Gastil, J. (2010). Principal Investigator, University of Washington Royalty Research Fund. “Panel Survey Investigation of the Oregon Citizen Initiative Review” ($40,000).

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