UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #981

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  approximately_how_many_hours_a_week_would_the_research_assistant: 5-10
  are_you_currently_looking_for_students_: 'No'
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  contact_email_fsu_email_if_affiliated_: mgandur@fsu.edu
  faculty_advisor_confirmation: '1'
  faculty_advisor_name: 'Amanda Driscoll'
  faculty_advisor_s_fsu_email: adriscoll@fsu.edu
  fsu_college: 'Social Sciences and Public Policy'
  fsu_department_if_applicable_: 'Department of Political Science'
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  mentoring_philosophy: |-
    General mentoring philosophy: I take a collaborative, non-hierarchical (horizontal) approach when working with RAs. The aim is for both the Mentor and RAs to be equally invested in and excited about the projects in particular and social science research in general.
    More about mentoring: I care that RAs get something useful from this experience. This can take different forms: learning about new topics, having some exposure to data-collection procedures, learning some basics of statistical programming, etc.
    Tasks: I will teach and provide RAs with all the resources they need to complete the tasks of the project. I will work alongside RAs on may of these tasks. We will create a handbook as we progress with the data collection and coding so that we keep track of what you have been doing (and improve procedures).
    Goals: We will set multiple feasible goals to keep track of our progress. I will make sure that these goals are clear, but this doesn't mean they will be fixed. We will adjust our goals based on our progress.
    Meetings: We will plan to meet weekly or bi-weekly (in person or remotely).
    Workload expectations: I don't know how long it will take to complete each tasks. There are no a priori expectations about how fast RAs should progress. We will learn all this as we work on the project. You will never be asked to work more hours than stipulated.
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  number_of_assistants_needed_faculty_postdoc_max_6_graduate_stude: '2'
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  overall_research_project_description: |-
    I have two projects.

    Project 1: This project studies how citizens react to politically salient judicial decisions around the world. We will combine (1) yearly cross-national survey data from different sources, and (2) salient judicial rulings from courts around the world. Ideally, these data will allow us to explore survey items asking people about their attitudes about the judiciary to examine (1) overall trends, (2) whether citizens' attitudes about courts change after politically salient decisions, and (3) if there are differences between subgroups (for example, people that support the executive and those who support an opposition party).

    Project 2: This project focuses on Latin American courts (primarily, Argentina's Supreme Court). Compared to the US Supreme Court, Latin American supreme courts usually deal with many more cases and have different procedures on how to decide these cases. This project will identify legally and politically salient cases decided or to be decided by these courts, starting with the Argentinian Supreme Court. Then, we will collect thorough information about each of these cases: the court's decision, the type of decision (fully decided, dismissed on procedural grounds, rejected certiorari, etc.), other relevant stages (orally arguments, public hearings, amicus briefs, etc.), the time the court took to hand down the decision, the parties and laws involved, and the internal case workflow within the court (among other things). Once we have these data, we will try to answer different questions that are related to strategic judicial decision-making: why some cases are dismissed at the court, why the court takes longer to hand down some decisions, why the court decided to hold public hearings or invite amicus to file briefs, and the strategic timing of the court's decision.
  please_add_any_additional_information_here: ''
  please_provide_a_link_to_your_publications_a_video_clip_or_a_web: 'https://martingandur.com/'
  please_select_the_choice_that_most_accurately_describes_your_exp: 'Partially Remote'
  please_select_the_location_of_your_project_: 'On FSU Main Campus'
  position_availability_for_student_research: 'Flexible schedule'
  position_title: 'Graduate Student'
  primary_research_mentor_name: 'Martín Gandur'
  project_keywords: 'courts, law, judicial behavior, public support for courts'
  relevant_student_major_s_: 'Open to all majors'
  research_mentor_preferred_pronoun2: ''
  research_mentor_pronouns: ''
  research_mentor_supervisor_if_different_from_above_: ''
  research_tasks_for_student_research_assistant_s_: 'Data collection: identifying and downloading open-access surveys; collecting/scraping information about court cases (from official websites, existing databases, and media); '
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  skills_that_research_assistants_may_need_: |-
    Spanish (required for project 2)
    Some knowledge of R or similar statistical programming software (recommended)
    Web scraping (recommended)
  title_of_the_project: '"Public Reactions to Judicial Decisions around the World" and "Strategic Use of the Docket across Latin American Courts"'
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  urop_performance_evaluation: '1'
  urop_poster_presentation: '1'
  when_potential_research_assistants_are_reaching_out_via_email_2: ''
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  when_students_are_reaching_out_via_email_what_is_your_preferreda: ''
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_round2: 'No'
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_roundt: 'No'
  year: '2024'