Support social science funding for the Nat\\\'l Science Foundation in 2014
Congress will considering the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 (H.R. 3547), which will, among other things, provide funding for the National Science Foundation.
I urge you to fully fund the NSF and the Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) Science Directorate, and oppose any effort to place new restrictions on SBE science research funding for Political Science. Previous research funded by the SBE Directorate includes the work of Nobel Prize winning researchers like the late political scientist Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University who looked at group decision making. Other work includes research on Cybersecurity, Disasters, Geographic Information Systems, and Youth Violence.
It is important that the United States sees funding across all disciplines of basic scientific research supported by the NSF as a top national priority. Support for this goal should not include offsets that will force significant, detrimental tradeoffs between one field of research and another. We need to preserve our system of support for basic research based on scientific merit and peer review, without unneeded restriction and regulation.
I urge you to fully fund the NSF and the Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) Science Directorate, and oppose any effort to place new restrictions on SBE science research funding for Political Science. Previous research funded by the SBE Directorate includes the work of Nobel Prize winning researchers like the late political scientist Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University who looked at group decision making. Other work includes research on Cybersecurity, Disasters, Geographic Information Systems, and Youth Violence.
It is important that the United States sees funding across all disciplines of basic scientific research supported by the NSF as a top national priority. Support for this goal should not include offsets that will force significant, detrimental tradeoffs between one field of research and another. We need to preserve our system of support for basic research based on scientific merit and peer review, without unneeded restriction and regulation.
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