Beginning in 2004, the Institute initiated an annual research grant competition open to all Kennedy School faculty. The research projects that have received support from the Institute are summarized below.
Political Legitimacy and Counter-Majoritarian Institutions in Divided Societies (renewal)
Arthur Applbaum
Institutional Design of Payments for Ecosystem Services
William Clark
Deliberation and Accountability in the European Union: An Empirical Evaluation of Two Experiments aimed at the Democracy Deficit
Pepper D. Culpepper & Archon Fung
The Quality of National Democracy in the European Union
Pepper D. Culpepper
Diffusion of Innovation Awards
John Donahue
Accountability and Representation in Negotiated Contexts
Alnoor Ebrahim
The Effects of Countries' Openness to International Migration and Trade on their Level of Democracy
Jeffrey Frankel
An Analysis of California Speaks
Archon Fung
Embedded Deliberation: Transformations in Local Democracy
Archon Fung
Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good Governance
Merilee Grindle
Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships in England and Wales
Steve Kelman & Irwin Turbitt
The Rules of the Game: Campaign Finance Laws in the US
Alexander Keyssar
Connecting to Congress
David Lazer
Faculty Retreat: Workshop on the Role of Bargaining, Negotiation, Compromise and Voting in Deliberative Democracy
Jane Mansbridge
Does Consensus Democracy Generate Political Stability in Plural Societies?
Pippa Norris
Cross-Sector Pollination of Ideas and Approaches
Todd Pittinsky
Innovations in the Science and Practice of Social Cohesion
Todd Pittinsky
Social Cohesion Programs as Innovative and Sustainable Means for Living Together Peacefully in Pluralist Societies
Todd Pittinsky
Curbing the Undue Influence of ‘Power Money’ in Electoral Democracy: Which Institutions Work?
Alejandro Poiré
Human Rights Across Cultures
Mathias Risse
Justice and Sovereignty in the New Global Order
Mathias Risse
Civic Engagement in America
Thomas Sander
Constitution-Making In Plural Societies
Frederick Schauer
How Not to Radicalize Islam: Religion and Good Governance in Africa
Cindy Skach
The New Politics of Displacement
Kim Williams
Transition: The Politics of Racial and Ethnic Change in Urban America
Kim Williams