Alan Jacobs, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Economic Inequality & Support for Collective Goods
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$35,605
Pain for Gain: uncertainty and citizen support for policy tradeoffs
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$197,626
Democracy and the long term: how institutions shape government capacities to invest
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
$106,690

All 3 grants and awards

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Economic Inequality & Support for Collective Goods

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Matthews, John S.

Keywords: economic inequality; collective goods; policy attitudes; public opinion; survey research; experiment; political psychology; public policy; social segmentation; political trust; fairness; privatization

$35,605

Pain for Gain: uncertainty and citizen support for policy tradeoffs

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Jacobs, Alan M.

Keywords: public opinion; experimental methods; public policy; public investment; political institutions; political psychology; information; uncertainty; decision-making; political behaviour

$197,626

Democracy and the long term: how institutions shape government capacities to invest

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Jacobs, Alan M.

Keywords: public policy; political institutions; intertemporal choice; comparative politics; comparative politics of public policy

$106,690

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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