American University

The Accountability Research Center is part of American University’s School of International Service. The center bridges research and frontline perspectives in the Global South to learn from ideas, institutions, and actors that advance strategies to improve public accountability. During this grant period, they will work with partners to contribute to global thinking that informs strategies to bolster transparency, participation, and accountability. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)

This grant will support the Abortion Information Hub, a new project based at American University's Center on Health, Risk, and Society. The U.S. abortion landscape is undergoing radical restructuring due to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and the elimination of constitutional legal protection for abortion. The Abortion Information Hub will facilitate greater access to information and communication in order to make more cohesive tactical and strategic decisions within the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement. The hub will compile and curate information and facilitate a space for the movement to surface bold and innovative ideas on policy and service delivery. (Strategy: U.S. Reproductive Equity)

Scholarship regarding U.S. governing institutions (Congress, the presidency, and the federal bureaucracy) suffers from a notoriously restricted range of theoretical, methodological, and demographic perspectives — limiting political scientists’ collective understanding of those institutions as they evolve with respect to gender, race/ethnicity, capacity, and culture. American University’s New Perspectives in Studies of American Governance program, in partnership with Purdue University, seeks to address this shortcoming. The program incentivizes emerging scholars to broaden the range of perspectives and experiences upon which they draw when pursuing insight into American governance at the federal level.