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Raymond Michel Duch
Address: Nuffield College, New Road, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 1NF
Email Address: raymond.duch@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Website: www.raymondduch.com
Contact Number: 44 +1 865 278 515
Fax: 44 +1 865 278 621
Academic Positions Held
| 2025 | Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. |
| 2008-2025 | Director, Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, Nuffield College. |
| 2012-2020 | Official Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. |
| 2006-2012 | Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College and University Professor of Quantitative Political Science, University of Oxford. |
| 2003-2006 | Senator Don Henderson Scholar in Political Science, University of Houston. |
| 1997-2006 | Director, Social Science Data Lab, University of Houston. |
| 2001-2003 | Professor, Political Science Department, University of Houston. |
| 1990-2001 | Associate Professor, Political Science Department, University of Houston. |
| 2003-2006 | Senator Don Henderson Scholar in Political Science, University of Houston. |
| 1982-1990 | Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, University of Houston. |
| 1981-1982 | Assistant Professor, State University of New York. |
Other Research Affiliations
| 2015 | Long Term Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies in Toulouse (IAST), Toulouse School of Economics. |
Visiting Positions
| 2012-2013 | Visiting Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Spain. |
| 2000 | Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. |
| 1995-1996 | Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. |
| 1993 | Visiting Scholar, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Fur Sozialforschung, Berlin. |
| 2002 | Visiting Scholar, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Montreal, Quebec. |
Recent Professional Activities
| 2024- | Toulouse School of Economics Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse Scientific Council. |
| 2024- | Editorial Board, Political Science Research and Methods. |
| 2022- | Co-Editor, Cambridge University Press Comparative Political Behavior Elements Series. |
| 2014 - 2021 | U.K. Cabinet Office Cross-Whitehall Trial Advice Panel. |
| 2016-2018 | Vice President, Midwest Political Science Association. |
| 2017 | Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Political Science. |
| 2014 | Convenor, International Meeting series on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (IMEBESS). |
| 2011 | Executive Director, European Political Science Association. |
Education
| 1982 | University of Rochester, Ph.D. |
| 1978 | University of Rochester, M.A. |
| 1975 | University of Manitoba, B.A. Honours. |
Publications
Articles Refereed Journals
- “Artificially Intelligent Opinion Polling” Royal Society Open Science (Forthcoming).
- “Lottery or Triage? Multi-country survey-based experiment evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic on public preferences for allocation of scarce medical resources”, Medical Decision Making (2025).
Download Paper - “Governing in the face of a global crisis: When do voters punish and reward incumbent governments?”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025).
Download Paper - “Inequality in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and uptake: A repeated cross-sectional analysis of COVID vaccine acceptance and uptake in 13 countries”, Health Policy (2025).
Download Paper - “The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election PoSSUM Poll” (with Roberto Cerina), PS: Political Science & Politics (2024).
Download Paper - “Access to healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional analysis of income and user-access across 16 economically diverse countries”, BMC Public Health (2024).
Download Paper - “How to Detect Heterogeneity in Conjoint Experiments” (with Thomas S. Robinson), Journal of Politics (2024).
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Online Appendix
Replication Data - “Deepfake detection with and without content warnings” (with Andrew Lewis, Patrick Vu, and Areeq Chowdhury), Royal Society Open Science (November 2023).
Download Paper - “Financial Incentives for COVID-19 Vaccines in a Rural Low-Resource Setting: a Cluster-Randomized Trial” (with Edward Asiedu et al), Nature Medicine (2023).
Download Paper - “Prevalence, Predictors and Reasons for COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Results of a Global Online Survey” (with Paolo Candio, Mara Violato, Philip M. Clarke, and Laurence S. J. Roope), Health Policy (August 2023).
Download Paper - “Cash versus lottery video messages: online COVID-19 vaccine incentives experiment”, Oxford Economics. Volume 2, 2023, odad004.
Download Paper - “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Health-Related Quality of Life Across 13 High and Low-Middle Income Countries: a Cross-Sectional Analysis” (with with Mara Violato et al), PLOS Medicine (April 2023).
Download Paper - “A Randomized Controlled Trial to Test Financial Incentives for COVID-19 Vaccination in Ghana” (with Edward Asiedu, Ryota Nakamura, Thomas Rouyard, Carlos Yevenes, Laurence Roope, Mara Violato, and Philip Clarke), Nature Medicine (June 2022).
Download Paper - “Reply to Timpka et al.: Perceived Corruption and Preferences for COVID-19 Vaccine Allocations” (with Thomas Robinson et all), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022).
Download Paper - “Polling India via Regression and Post-Stratification of Non-Probability Online Samples” (with Roberto Cerina), PLOS ONE (2021).
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Replication Data - “Is There Broad-Based Support in High-Income Countries for COVID-19 Vaccine Donation? Evidence from Seven Countries” (with Laurence Roope et al), Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (2021).
Download Paper - “Gender Differences in Perceived Risk of COVID-19” (with Andrew Lewis), Social Science Quarterly (2021).
Download Paper - “Who Should Be First in Line for the COVID-19 Vaccine? Surveys in 13 Countries of the Public’s Preferences for Prioritisation” (with Philip Clarke et al), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021).
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Replication Data - “Collective Decision Making and the Economic Vote” (with Albert Falco-Gimeno). Comparative Political Studies (Forthcoming).
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Replication Data - “Lessons from the Pandemic on the Value of Research Infrastructure” (with Laurence Roope; Paolo Candio; Vasiliki Kiparoglou; Helen McShane; Philip M. Clarke). Health Research Policy and System (2021).
Download Paper - “Public Opinion on Global Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines” (with Laurence S. J. Roope, Mara Violato, Alessia Melegaro, Peter John Loewen, Jorge Friedman, Jean-Francois Bonnefon, Adrian Barnett, and Philip M Clarke). Nature Medicine Correspondence (2021).
Download Paper - “Choice Architecture Improves Pension Selection” (with Paulina Granados, Denise Laroze, Mauricio Lopez, Marian Ormeno, and Ximena Quintanilla). Applied Economics (2021).
Download Paper - “How Should a Safe and Effective COVID-19 Vaccine be Allocated? Health Economists Need to be Ready to Take the Baton” (with Laurence S. J. Roope, John Buckell, Frauke Becker, Paolo Candio, Mara Violato, Jody L Sindelar, Adrian Barnett, and Philip M Clarke). PharmacoEconomics Open (2020).
Download Paper - “Nativist Policy: The Comparative Effects of Trumpian Politics on Migration Decisions” (with Tom Robinson, Denise Laroze, and Constantin Reinprecht). Political Science Research and Methods (2020).
Download Paper - “Measuring Public Opinion via Digital Footprints” (with Roberto Cerina). International Journal of Forecasting. (2020).
Download Paper - “Multi-Modes for Detecting Experimental Measurement Error” (with Denise Laroze, Thomas Robinson, and Pablo Beramendi), Working Paper, Nuffield College Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, Political Analysis (2020).
Download Paper | Appendix - “Where will the British Go? And Why?” (with Denise Laroze, Constantin Reinprecht, Thomas Robinson), Social Science Quarterly (2019). Download Paper
- “Ethnocentrism versus Group-specific Stereo-typing in Immigration Opinion: Cross-National Evidence on the Distinctiveness of Immigrant Groups” (with Tobias B.Konitzer et al). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2018). Download Paper
- “North American Public Opinion on Health and Smoking” (with Kent Tedin and Laron Williams). Public Opinion Quarterly (2018). Download Paper
- “ENudgen für die Rentenentscheidung im Vereinigten Königreich – Implikationen für die Privatisierung der Rentenpolitik” (with Sönke Ehret). DIW Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung (2018). Download Paper
- “Economic and Cultural Drivers of Immigrant Support Worldwide,” (with Nicholas A. Valentino et al). British Journal of Political Science (2017). Download Paper
- “Who Should be Called to the Lab? A Comprehensive Comparison of Students and Non-students in Classic Experimental Games‚” (with Michele Belot and Luis Miller). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation (2015). Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch, Wojtek Przepiorka and Randy Stevenson. “Responsibility Attribution for Collective Decision Makers‚”. American Journal of Political Science (2015). Download Paper | Download Appendix | Download Replication Data | Download Replication Code
- Shanto Iyengar et al (including Raymond Duch) “Do Attitudes About Immigration Predict Willingness to Admit Individual Immigrants? A Cross-National Test of the Person-Positivity Bias.‚” Public Opinion Quarterly, (2013). Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Randy Stevenson.”Voter Perceptions of Agenda Power and Attribution of Responsibility for Economic Performance.” Electoral Studies (2013). Download Paper | Download Appendix
- Randy Stevenson and Raymond M. Duch.” The Meaning and Use of Subjective Perceptions in Models of Economic Voting.” Electoral Studies (June, 2013). Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Paul Kellstedt. “The Heterogeneity of Consumer Sentiment in an Increasingly Homogeneous Global Economy.” Electoral Studies (September 2011) 30(3):399-405. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Randy Stevenson.”Context and Economic Expectations: When Do Voters get it Right?‚” British Journal of Political Science (January 2011) 41:1-31. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch, Jeff May and David Armstrong. ‚”Coalition-Directed Voting in Multi-Party Democracies.‚” American Political Science Review (November 2010) 104(4): 698-719. Download Paper
- David Armstrong and Raymond M. Duch. ‚”Why can Voters Anticipate Post-election Coalition Formation Likelihoods‚” Electoral Studies (2010) 29(3): 308-315. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Randy Stevenson. ‚”The Global Economy, Competency and the Economic Vote.‚” Journal of Politics (January, 2010) 72(1): 105-123. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Randy Stevenson. ‚”Assessing the Magnitude of the Economic Vote over Time and Across Nations‚” Electoral Studies (September 2006) 25(3):528-47. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Randy Stevenson. “Context and the Economic Vote: A Multi-level Analysis‚” Political Analysis (Autumn, 2005) 13(4): 387-409. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Harvey Palmer. “It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose, But How You Play the Game: Self-Interest, Social Justice, and Mass Attitudes toward Market Transition.‚” American Political Science Review (August, 2004) 98(3):437-452. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Kaare Strom. “Liberty, Authority, and the New Politics: A Reconsideration.‚” Journal of Theoretical Politics (January, 2004 Volume 16 (3): 233-262. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Harvey Palmer. “Strategic Voting in Post-communist Democracy.‚” British Journal of Political Science (January, 2002) 32(1): 63-91. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch ‚”A Developmental Model of Heterogeneous Economic Voting in New Democracies‚” American Political Science Review (December, 2001) 95 (4):895-910. Download Paper
- Harvey Palmer and Raymond M. Duch. “Do Surveys Provide Representative or Whimsical Assessments of the Economy‚” Political Analysis (2001) 9: 58-77. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch, Harvey Palmer and Christopher Anderson. “Heterogeneity in Perceptions of National Economic Conditions.” American Journal of Political Science (2000) (October) 44:635-649. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch. “The Electoral Connection and Democratic Consolidation.” Electoral Studies (1998) 17:149-174. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Michaell Taylor. “Economics and the Vulnerability of Pan European Institutions.‚” Political Behavior (1997). Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch. “Economic Chaos and the Fragility of Democratic Transition in Former Communist Regimes.” Journal of Politics. (February, 1995). Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Michaell Taylor. A Reply to Abramson and Inglehart’s ‚”Education, Security, and Postmaterialism.” American Journal of Political Science. 38: 398-411 (August 1994). Download Paper
- James L. Gibson and Raymond M. Duch. ‚”Postmaterialism and the Emerging Soviet Democracy.” Political Research Quarterly. (March, 1994).
- James L. Gibson and Raymond M. Duch.”Political Intolerance in the USSR: The Distribution and Etiology of Mass Opinion.” Comparative Political Studies. (October, 1993).
- Raymond M. Duch. “Tolerating Economic Reform: Popular Support for Transition to a Free Market in the Former Soviet Union.” American Political Science Review. 87:590-608 (September 1993). Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Michaell Taylor. “Post-Materialism and the Economic Condition.” American Journal of Political Science. 37: 747-778 (August 1993). Download Paper
- James L. Gibson, Raymond M. Duch and Kent Tedin. “Democratic Values and the Transformation of the Soviet Union,” Journal of Politics 54 (May, 1992):329-371. Download Paper
- James L. Gibson and Raymond M. Duch. “Attitudes Toward Jews and the Soviet Political Culture,” Journal of Soviet Nationalities, 2 (Spring, 1992), 77-117.
- James L. Gibson and Raymond M. Duch. “Anti-Semitic Attitudes of the Mass Public: Estimates and Explanations Based on a Survey of the Moscow Oblast,‚” Public Opinion Quarterly, 56 (Spring, 1992), 1-28.
- Raymond M. Duch and James L. Gibson. “Putting Up With Fascists in Western Europe: A Comparative, Cross-National Analysis of Political Tolerance,‚” Western Political Quarterly, 45 (March, 1992).
- James L. Gibson and Raymond M. Duch. ‚”Elitist Theory and Political Tolerance in Western Europe.” Political Behavior 13 (September, 1991).
- Raymond M. Duch. ‚”The Politics of Investment by the Nationalized Sector‚” Western Political Quarterly (Spring, 1990).
- Raymond M. Duch. “Individual Freedom in Eastern Europe.‚” Houston Update. 3 October, 1988.
Books
- The Economic Vote: How Political and Economic Institutions Condition Election Results. Cambridge University Press (2008) (with Randy Stevenson).
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Online Appendix with Supporting Data - Privatizing the Economy: Telecommunications Policy in Comparative Perspective. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press (1991).
Monographs, Book Chapters and Invited Submissions
- Raymond M. Duch und Sönke Ehret. Nudgen für die Rentenentscheidung im Vereinigten Königreich – Implikationen für die Privatisierung der Rentenpolitik. DIW Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung. 02/2018. Download Paper
- Raymond M. Duch and Inaki Sagarzazu. ”Election Campaigns, Public Opinion and the Financial Crisis of 2008-2010 in the U.K. and Germany‚” in Nancy Bermeo and Larry M. Bartels, eds. Mass Politics in Tough Times: Opinion, Votes and Protest in the Great Recession. Russell Sage Foundation and Oxford University Press. 2013. Download Paper
- “European Political Science Association and the Internationalization of Political Science”. Comparative Politics Newsletter. 2012.
- “Selecting Obama: The 2008 Economic Vote in Context”. Political Economy Newsletter 2009.
- “Comparative Studies of the Economy and the Vote”. Encyclopedia of Comparative Politics, Eds. Carles Boix and Susan Stokes. 2007. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Raymond M. Duch and Harvey D. Palmer. “Heterogeneous Perceptions of Economic Conditions in Cross-National Perspective”, chapter in Economic Voting, eds. Han Dorussen and Michaell Taylor (New York: Routledge). 2002.
- Raymond M. Duch. “Participation in the New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe: Cultural versus Rational Choice Explanations”. In Samuel Barnes and Janos Simon, eds. The Postcommunist Citizen Budapest: Erasumus Foundation. 1998.
- Raymond M. Duch. “Rationality” In The Encyclopedia of Democracy, ed. Seymour Martin Lipset, Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books. 1995
- James Gibson and Raymond M. Duch. “Political Culture in the Emerging Soviet Democracy”. In The New Soviet Citizen: Public Opinion in the Gorbachev Era, ed., Arthur H. Miller, William M. Reisinger, and Vicki L. Heslie. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press (1993). (co-authored).
- James Gibson and Raymond M. Duch. “Support for Rights in Western Europe and the Soviet Union: An Analysis of the Beliefs of Mass Publics”. In Research on Democracy and Society, Volume I, Democratization in Eastern and Western Europe. Edited by Frederick D. Weil. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1993. (co-authored).
- Raymond M. Duch. “Investment Subsidy Programs in Comparative Perspective,‚” in Holzer and Nagel, eds., Productivity and Public Policy, Beverly Hills, Cal.: Sage Publications, 1984.
Commissioned Reports
- “Vacunacion contra el COVID-19 en Colombia: opinion publica sobre su priorizacion y distribucion” (with Juan Vargas, Shana Warren, Margarita Cabra and Ana Maria Diaz). For Innovations for Poverty Action and Departemento Nacionale Planeacion Colombia. (2021).
- Impacto de la Comunicacion Trimestral del Estado del Credito Hipotecario en las decisiones financieras del consumidor: Evidencia experimental y opciones de rediseno. For Chile Servicio Nacional del Consumidor Subdireccion de Consumo Financiero Coordinacion de Economia del Comportamiento (2020).
- “Increasing consumer engagement in the annuities market: can prompts raise shopping around?” (with Oxera). For the Financial Conduct Authority (2016).
Recent Professional Positions
- Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2012-2016.
- Board of Editors, Political Science Research Methods, 2012.
- Coordinator, Nuffield Centre of Experimental Social Sciences/Essex University Summer School in Experimental Economics, 2010.
- Executive Director and Board Member of the European Political Science Association, 2010.
- Member of the Kellogg/Notre Dame Award Committee (for the best paper in Comparative Politics presented at the 2011 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting), 2011.
- Chairman of the American Journal of Political Science Best Article Award Committee for 2010-2011.
- Founded (along with John Huber) the American Political Science Association Powell Graduate Mentoring Prize, 2010.
- Co-chair and Organiser of Conference in Honor of Bingham Powell, University of Rochester, 2010.
- Chairman, Riker Political Economy Book Award Committee, 2010.
- Member of the Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award Committee, 2010.
- Associate Editor, American Journal of Political Science. 2006-2009.
- U.S. National Election Study Planning Committee. 2004.
- Political Culture Section Chair, Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, March, 2003.
- Comparative Politics Section Chair, Southern Political Science Association Meeting, 2002, Savannah, Georgia, November 6-9, 2002.
- Comparative Politics Section Chair, Western Political Science Association Meeting, Long Beach, CA, March 2002.
- Comparative Politics Section Chair, Southwest Political Science Association Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, April, 2001.
- Comparative Politics Section Chair, Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, March 1999.
- National Science Foundation Political Science Advisory Panel. 1999-2001
- Chair, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Advisory Committee on International Issues. 1999-2001.
- Editorial Board of the American Journal of Political Science. 1997-2001.
- Co-coordinator, Re-Thinking Democracy in the New Millennium Conference, Houston Texas. 2000.
Book Reviews
- “The Policy Challenges of Globalization: What Should Government Do?”, Review of Daniel Cohen, The Wealth of the World and the Poverty of Nations; Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics; and Gary Burtless, Robert Z. Lawrence, Robert E. Latin, and Robert J. Shapiro, Globaphobia: Contronting Fears about Open Trade. Thunderbird International Business Review (July-August 2001).
- “Value Change in Global Perspective”, Paul R. Abramson and Ronald Inglehart. American Political Science Review.
- “Canada: The State of the Federation 1985”, edited by Peter M. Leslie. Publius Winter, 1987.
Fellowships and Awards
- Best Article Published in Journal of Politics, Southern Political Science Association, 2011.
- Luebbert Best Book Award, American Political Science Association, 2009.
- Awarded the Best Paper in Political Economy Presented at the 2006 American Political Science Association Meeting. Award presented by the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association. 2007.
- Robert H. Durr Award for the best paper (delivered at the 2001 Midwest Political Science Association meetings) applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem. 2002.
- Canada Council Graduate Scholarship (Three Years) 1978-81.
- INCO Canadian Studies Scholarship (University of Rochester) 1976-1982.
Research Grants
- Co-investigator, “Providing empirical evidence to support greater equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research funding” UKRI (OPP 569 UKRI Metascience research grants) 2024 £200,000.
- Co-investigator scheme application. SNSF Advanced Grant 2023. Title: “Can talking to machines improve financial decision making?”. Value: 1,257,987 CHF.
- Collaboration/Co-Investigator. REAL Centre, research unit funding 2023. Title: Research and Economic Analysis Unit of Demand for Health and Social Care (OxREAD). Value: £3.725m.
- “Improving Sampling in Experimental Research using Multi-Mode Samples and MRP” Innovations for Poverty Action Call for Advanced Research Methods in the Social Sciences (with Mats Ahrenshop). Value: $21,000.
- “Auditorias, informacion y rendicion de cuentas: Un Experimento en los efects de informacion de corrupcion en los votantes” Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Value: £8,000.
- “The Effect of Accountability on Clientelist Politicians: Examining Centrally-Led Independent Government Audits and Elections” FONDECYT Regular 2020. Value: £64,000.
- “The Effects of Audit Policy Design and Information and Accountability” University of Oxford Strategic Priorities Fund QR. December 2019. Value: £23,746.
- “A Global Perspective on Financial Literacy,” The Fell Fund. August 2017. Value: £30,374.
- “Experimental Methods to Analyse Educational Policies on STEM and Vocational Education,” Newton-Picarte Fund. August 2016. Value: $20,000.
- “Innovating Behavioral Experiments on the Internet”, Google Faculty Research Award, August 2014. Value: $63,913.
- “The Mediated Economy in the 2008 U.S. Elections”, The Nuffield Foundation, £7,500, 2008.
- “Theoretical and Empirical Contributions to Modeling Context in the Vote Decision”, British Academy, 2007. £2000.
- “Micro-Foundations of Economic Development”. Grants to Enhance and Advance Research, University of Houston, $8,500. 2003-2004.
- “The Political Consequences of Economic and Political Turmoil in Latin America”, 2002. The James Baker Institute and the University of Houston. Amount: $50,000.
- “Collaborative Research: Why the Economy? The Micro-Foundations of the Economic Vote in Comparative Perspective”, National Science Foundation 2002-2004 (SBR-0215633). Amount: $100,272.
- Research Experience for Undergraduates Award, National Science Foundation, 2000.
- “Attitudes to Democratic Capitalism: A Comparative Study of Political and Economic Reform in Africa”, National Science Foundation. 1997-2000 (SBR-9730464). Amount: $119,227.
- Evaluating Models of Attitude Change in the Period of Transition to Democracy and Free Markets in Hungary, National Science Foundation, 1996-1999 (SBR-9600306). Amount: $115,380.
- Economic Chaos and the Fragility of Democracy and Capitalism, National Science Foundation, 1993. Amount: $65,000.
- “Markets, Liberty, and Democracy in the Soviet Union: An Examination of the Cultural Requisites for the Political and Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union”, Texas Advanced Research Program, 1991. Amount: $75,000.
- “Democratization in the USSR: The Impact of Political Culture on Processes of Political Change”, National Science Foundation, 1991. (co-P.I.) Amount: $250,000.
- Goethe Institute, Houston. ”The Fall of the Berlin Wall: Prospects for Democracy in East Germany”, Conference held in Houston on November 8, 1990.
- “Cultural Values and the Transformation of the Soviet Union”, National Science Foundation, 1990. (co-P.I.) Amount: $30,000.
- “Cultural Values and the Transformation of the Soviet Union”, Dresser Foundation, 1990. Amount: $2,000.
- University of Houston, Limited Grant-In-Aid. ”Cultural Values and the Transformation of the Soviet Union”. January, 1990. Amount: $1,500.
- University of Houston, Limited Grant-In-Aid. ”Global Liberalization and Political Conflict”. May, 1989. Amount: $1,500.
- European Commission, Brussels. ”Cultural Barriers to European Integration?: A Cross?Level Analysis of Democratic Tolerance” (funding for inclusion of survey items on Fall, 1988 Euro- barometer). Fall, 1988.
- AT & T, New York. ”Cultural Barriers to European Integration?: A Cross?Level Analysis of Democratic Tolerance”, Summer/Fall, 1988.
- University of Houston, Limited Grant-In-Aid. ”The Legacy of the French Revolution in Modern French Political Culture”. May, 1988.
- “Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc Evolution of Postwar Relations”. Conference organized for the Center for Public Policy. Participants included Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Walt W. Rostow, Harrison E. Salisbury and Helmut Sonnenfeldt.
- Houston Job Training Partnership Council. ”Houston-Galveston Area Labor Market Survey”.
Foreign Language Proficiency
- French (fluent)
- Spanish (fair)