Social Science Research Council
For Support Of The Anxieties Of Democracy Program
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Amount$750,000
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Program
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Date Awarded4/10/2017
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
This grant supports the Social Science Research Council’s Anxieties of Democracy program that works to stimulate, mobilize, and broadcast a better understanding of the dilemmas of legitimacy and capacity faced by established democracies. To affect scholarship and enhance the public conversation, the program coordinates over 70 top-tier social scientists, journalists, and practitioners, convened into five working groups with mandates to offer fresh perspectives and solutions. The Anxieties of Democracy program safeguards and nurtures a (rare) panoramic perspective — understood both comparatively and historically — in its approach and analyses, while anchoring the crucial civic role of university research in a robust democracy.
About the Grantee
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Address
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Grants to this Grantee
for the Digital Platforms and the Public Interest Project
The Social Science Research Council was founded in 1923 by seven disciplinary associations to support social science in the public interest. This grant will support a one-year project to convene a group of senior, mid-career, and early-career economists to investigate the potential for an investment in economics research on digital platforms. The project will (a) survey the existing economics literature on digital platforms, (b) identify open research questions that could lead to important new evidence about digital platforms, (c) consider the potential implications of the proposed research agenda for new policy and regulatory frameworks, and (d) consider the potential implications of the proposed research agenda for new intellectual frameworks in the discipline of economics.
