Small Grants and Prizes

We offer small grants (typically less than $3,000) for APE community-building. Those interested in applying do so
using our application form

Grant applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Watch the CAPE Grants Infosession recap to learn more.

Activities we support include but are not limited to:

Small “pop up” workshops to bring together scholars working on a specific topic of central importance to the APE field.
Funding for workshopping book manuscripts on the American political economy.
Funding to facilitate pre-APSA research gatherings (on the Wednesday prior to APSA conferences).
Funding to facilitate the convening of an APSA research “cafe” on the American political economy.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

Funded Research Projects

The Politics of Public Labor: APSA pre-conference workshop

by

Isabel Perera

School Bonds as ‘PROPERTY TAX INCREASES’: The Impact of State-Mandated Ballot Language on Local Elections

by

Melissa Lyon

Red Plains: Elite Power and the Republican Turn in a Rural Kansas Town

by

Henry Fletcher

The internal constraints on union local political activity

by

Alan Yan

Rural Resilience: An Examination of Attitudes Toward Rural Economic Development Policies

by

Quinn Bornstein

APE Undergraduate Curriculum & Course Materials

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Nicholas Short

Sarah James

Course Descriptor for Introduction to American Political Economy

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Josue (Josh) Franco

Development of new instructional cases for teaching American Political Economy concepts in public policy courses

by

Parrish Bergquist

U.S. State-Level Responses to Collective Welfare Risks

by

Grace Beals

Angie Jo

Political Learning in the US Labor Market

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Jack Garigliano

Damages Denied: The Impact of ERISA’s Statutory Design on Patients’s Access to Health Care

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Miranda Yaver

The Union’s Inspiration: Black Workers, AFSCME, and the Public Sector Upsurge of the 1960s

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Chas Walker

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