{"id":3169,"date":"2026-05-20T14:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:06:07","slug":"psc-professor-chris-parker-wins-research-grant-from-the-institute-for-humane-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/2026\/05\/20\/psc-professor-chris-parker-wins-research-grant-from-the-institute-for-humane-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"PSC Professor Chris Parker wins research grant from the Institute for Humane Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professor Chris Parker received a $4,000 grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/theihs.org\/\">Institute for Humane Studies<\/a> for a project titled \u201cSupport for Popular Constitutionalism in the American Public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grant will help fund a nationally representative survey examining the degree to which the American public supports popular constitutionalism &#8212; the idea that interpretations of the Constitution should be based on the popular will. The survey will also include an experimental design to help understand how supporters of popular constitutionalism differ from those who prefer a more legalistic court that ignores public opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $4,000 grant will support a nationally representative survey on public support for popular constitutionalism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3170,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/3170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}