2000 Summer Camp for Political Party Research Northwestern University

In mid-January 2000, the Provost's Office at Northwestern University announced funds "to increase the involvement of undergraduates in the scholarly/creative work of faculty." In March, Provost Lawrence Dumas agreed to support a "Summer Camp for Political Party Research." It would employ from five to ten undergraduates for eight weeks to develop a website for cross-national analysis of political parties. Students interested in applying for the Summer Camp had to enroll in a Pass/Fail Tutorial on Political Party Research during the Spring Quarter. It was intended to instruct students in the method and substance of the study and to help them decide whether they wished to commit for 30 hours of work over eight weeks during the summer. Of the seventeen students who enrolled in the tutorial, nine elected to participate in the Summer Camp. Three graduate students also committed to roles in the project. All twelve participants are listed below in alphabetical order along with the contributions they made. (For photos, go here.)

Student Name Countries Scanned 1950-1962 bibliography Student Status/ Class Converted 1950-62 party data for website Wrote essay on party politics 1963-2000 Compiled electoral data Other contributions to ICPP 2000 Allan, Kimberly A. 2002 Ireland Germany-West Germany-East Dominican Rep Bell, Chad E. 2001 United States Proposed creating text files for 1980 book chapters to download and print more easily than from the web. India Greece El Salvador Corstange, Daniel M. 2000 Denmark Guatemala Lebanon Iran Danilkina, Irina 2001 Sweden Turkey Ellis, Laura K. 2002 United States scanned text for OCR and created all party politics web pages; devised html find/replace routines Australia Faber, Michael J. 2002 New Zealand Iceland Netherlands Portugal Hungary USSR Guinea Congo Repub. Falleti, Tulia graduate U. K. Graubart, Noah C. 2001 Austria Devised DeltaGraph file format for party seats and votes1950 to 2000 Luxembourg Hu, He (Helen) graduate Burma Coded the Chinese Communist Party in the 1990s to add to the data set China Cambodia Indonesia Malaya North Korea China Orsini, Christina 2001 Canada converted original descriptions of variable codes to web format Peru Nystrom, Christina graduate Dahomey Ghana Guinea Upper Volta Kenya Uganda Sanderson, Kathryn B. 2001 Ecuador Uruguay Venezuela Albania