Funder: Stanford University
Due Dates: January 22, 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $25,000 per project; funds must be used within two years
Summary: Supports innovative research on American institutions, democratic practice, and citizenship to rebuild trust and improve institutional effectiveness.
Key Information: Stanford postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students require sponsorship from an Academic Council faculty member or Hoover fellow.
Description
The Center for Revitalizing American Institutions (RAI) at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution supports innovative research on government institutions, organizations and democratic practice, and democratic citizenship. In an objective, nonpartisan spirit, the program seeks to explain declining trust in American institutions, examine how they operate, and identify evidence-based recommendations to rebuild trust and improve effectiveness.
Research questions may address congressional representation, artificial intelligence in bureaucracies, campaign finance reform, local electoral practices and fiscal policy, the Supreme Court’s Chevron reversal, confidence in higher education, or youth voting. These examples are not exhaustive. The program prioritizes new research using innovative data, novel approaches, or new questions with potential to advance scholarship, supported by rigorous quantitative or qualitative methods and transparency and replicability where appropriate.
