CIG funds and co-sponsors diverse research on institutions worldwide. Below are the projects that are currently taking place at the Center. Click the project title for more detailed descriptions.

VoteWorld
VoteWorld aims to build a central website which would archive, maintain, and distribute datasets of roll-call voting from legislative bodies throughout the international community. Researchers from all over the world will be able to access this unique website to download data, but also to upload their datasets and their papers.

Encyclopedia of Governance
The encyclopedia aims to provide a one-stop point of reference for the diverse and complex topics surrounding governance. The conceptual focus would be on the ways in which these changes in the state are explored in political science, public administration, political economy, and sociological or organizational theory. The more substantive material in the encyclopedia would derive from across the globe as necessary.

International Media Coverage of US Foreign Policy
This project examines increasing critical sentiment toward the United States and its foreign policy as expressed through the media outlets of Europe and Japan. This project consists of two aspects: First a new course at the School of Journalism in which students will travel to Europe in Spring 2004 to do a collective series reporting on coverage of American policy initiatives for publication in the US . Secondly public roundtable discussions will be organized featuring experts with broad perspectives on these issues.

Agri-Environmental Politics in the US and the EU
This project examines the construction of agricultural and environmental policy in the U.S. and EU. The goal of this proposal is to investigate and compare the trend toward melding agricultural and environmental policy in the two regions, and to relate these developments to the current, Doha Round of negotiations over the WTO.