Grants
Small Project Grant, Irish Research Council of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2008-2009. €48,883 to establish a World Database of Parties, Elections, and Governments.
Graduate Research Education Program in Quantitative Social Sciences, Irish Research Council of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2008-2011, with Paul Devereux (UCD), Philip Lane (TCD), and Paul Walsh (UCD). Provides €1,000,000 for three years of funding to establish an inter-disciplinary, inter-institutional, pilot programme to train Ph.D. students in advanced quantitative methodologies.
Government of Ireland Research Scholarship, Irish Research Council of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2006-2007. Provides €42,000 to provide replacement for a one-year sabbatical.
Scholar Exchange Scheme, Royal Irish Academy (April 2006). One month sponsorship between Irish Royal Academy and Hungarian Academy of Sciences for study in Budapest (approx €2,000).
International Institute for Integration Studies funded project: Globalisation and Party Competition. Trinity College, University of Dublin. Second-round funded collaborative project (with Gail McElroy, Michael Marsh, and Robert Thomson). Total: €100,000.
Enterprise Ireland Proof-of-Concept Grant (2004-2005). €78,431 for developing a method to extract information from texts using computerized content analysis. Duration: 12 months.
National Science Foundation (2004-2006), Collaborator. “Collaborative Research on Legislative Party Switching: Integrating Theoretical and Comparative Empirical Analyses.” Award No. 0339877, Co-Principal Investigators William B. Heller and Carol Mershon. Award amount $200,000, duration 24 months.
European Fifth Framework Grant (2002-2006). Received €97,695 for the Trinity College-based team on the project Domestic Structures of European Integration, headed by Thomas König.
Government of Ireland Research Scholarship, Irish Research Council of the Humanities and Social Sciences (September 2002 – August 2003). Provides €36,000 to provide replacement for a one-year sabbatical.
International Institute for Integration Studies funded project: Spatial Models of Party Competition. Trinity College, University of Dublin. Approximately €45,000 for research, travel, and pre-doctoral assistant for work on cross-national electoral and party systems.
Scholar Exchange Scheme, Royal Irish Academy (April 2002). One month sponsorship between Irish Royal Academy and Hungarian Academy of Sciences for study in Budapest (approx €2,000).
Social Science Research Council Research Grant, Royal Irish Academy (1999). IR£20,000 grant for research on Eastern European electoral system origins.
Awards
Winner of 1999 APSA Best Research Web Site Award (awarded as part of a group). Presented by the Computers and Multimedia Section at the 1999 annual meeting. For the Record of American Democracy (ROAD) Project website, http://data.fas.harvard.edu/ROAD/.
Winner of 1998 APSA Best Research Software Award. Presented by the Computers and Multimedia Section at the 1998 annual meeting. For EzI: A(n Easy) Program for Ecological Inference, with Gary King.