Small Grant Winners
Since our founding, the Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) has been proud to present annual small research grant awards to scholars who are studying topics that connect to the mission of the CEL to advance the generation, communication, and use of new knowledge about the effectiveness of individual lawmakers and legislative institutions. Several of these awardees have submitted their projects to be included as part of the Center’s working paper series, which has paved the way for their manuscripts to be published in peer-reviewed journals.
Below are past grant recipients and their projects:
- Sahar Abi-Hassan, Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Dino Pinterpe Christenson – “Central to Success: Measuring the Effect of Discoursive Centrality on Legislative Effectiveness in Congress.”
- Andrew Ballard and Mackenzie Dobson – “State Legislative Bill Topics.”
- Mirya R. Holman – “Do Voting Rights Matter? Legislative Consequences of Women’s Suffrage.”
- Peter McLaughlin – “Electable Effectiveness: How Voters Interpret Different Measures of Legislator Effectiveness.”
- Emily Cottle Ommundsen – “Predicting Partnerships: Congressional Campaign Positioning and Legislative Collaboration.”
- Darrian Stacy – “Economic Inequality and Legislative Effectiveness in the U.S. Senate.”
- James Strickland – “Spoils of Incumbency: Effective Lawmakers as Lobbyists.”
- Omomayowa Abati – “Beyond #NotTooYoungToRun: Legislative Effectiveness of Young Legislators in Nigeria”
- Christian Fong – “Enabling Compromise”
- Eric Hansen and Sarah Treul – “Prior Experience and State Legislative Effectiveness.”
- Jaclyn Kaslovsky and Andrew R. Stone – “Ask and You May Receive: Earmark Requests and Allocations in the 117th and 118th Congresses”
- Emily Cottle Ommundsen – “Congressional Campaign Strategy and Bipartisan Tendencies”
- Jason M. Roberts – “Personal Relationships and Legislative Effectiveness in the U.S. Congress”
- Alexandra Filindra – “Exposure to Political Threats/Violence and Its Psychological Effects on American Elected Officials”
- Gabriel Foy-Sutherland – “‘I Vote My District’: The Electoral and Legislative Value of Intraparty Organization in the U.S. House”
- Sam Frederick – “Partisan Identity Among State Legislators: The Connection Between Affective and Effective Lawmaking”
- Fred Gui – “City Lobbying and Member’s Legislative Performance”
- Michael Kistner – “Communicating Legislative Effectiveness”
- Geoffrey Lorenz – “Polarizing Pluralism: Party Competition, Interest Group Strategy, and the Resurgent Mischiefs of Faction”
- Nicole Kalaf-Hughes – “Collaboration as a Means to Effective Representation in Congress”
- Jonathan Lewallen – “Effective Legislators and Dissent in Congressional Committees”
- Susan M. Miller – “Legislative Term Limits in Municipalities: How Term Limits Shape Effective Lawmaking at the Local Level”
- Ju Yeon (Julia) Park – “Measuring the Changing Role of Legislative Committees”
- Seth Warner – “Affective Polarization and Legislative Behavior: Citizen Heat an Elite Red Meat”
- Catherine Wineinger – “Activists in the House: Insights on Legislative Effectiveness from Progressive Women of Color”
- Jatia Wrighten – “The Legislative Effectiveness of Black Women”
- Carlos Algara – “Issue Salience Representation & Effective Representation: The Role of Issue Salience in Shaping Citizen Perceptions of Legislative Representation”
- Jeremy Gelman – “The Durable Agenda: Tracking Bill Fates Over Time”
- Michael Olson – “Black Disfranchisement and the Effectiveness of Southern State Lawmakers”
- Mark Owens and Nicholas Howard – “Committees as a Venue for Effectiveness”
- Beatriz Rey – “Legislative Effectiveness in Nonprogrammatic Party Systems: Evidence from Brazil“
- Annelise Russell – “Communicating Effectiveness: Legislative Success as Constituent Communication”
- Danielle Thomsen – “Fundraising and Legislating in the U.S. Congress”
Sarah Treul – “The Effect of Experience on Institutional Influence and Congressional Capacity”
- Jennifer Lucas – “Congressional National Television Media Strategies: Motivations and Effectiveness”
- Kenneth Lowande – “Measuring the Quality of Legislative Oversight”
- Sarah Treul – “The Effect of Experience on Institutional Influence and Congressional Capacity”
- Philip Moniz and Zac McGee – “Gift Travel in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
- Jason Roberts and James Curry – “Personal Relationships and Legislative Effectiveness in Congress”
- Andrew Clarke and Daniel Markovitz – “District Representatives or National Lawmakers? Home Style and Legislative Effectiveness in the U.S. Congress”
- Jesse M. Crosson – “Using Interest Group Position-Taking to Study the Spatial Location and Viability of Legislation”
- Tim LaPira and Alexander D. Furnas – “2019 Congressional Capacity Survey”
- Geoff Lorenz – “Lobbying Coalitions, Legislative Entrepreneurship, and Effective Lawmaking”
- Melinda N. Ritchie and Hye Young You – “Legislative Effectiveness and Gender Equity in Congress: Evidence from Congressional Staff”
- Jennifer L. Selin and Hanna K. Brant – “Brain Drain? Understanding Congressional Staffers’ Legislative and Oversight Capabilities”
- Danielle Thomsen and Sarah Truel – “Turning Legislative Effectiveness into Electoral Success”
