After a proposal is posted, it can only be revised during an official proposal revision period. To find out the proposal revision period for the study that you are interested in, click on the "Calendar and Deadlines" link for that study in the header of the Online Commons pages.
Limiting proposal revisions to the official proposal revision period is primarily for the convenience of readers, as it limits the number of times persons have to read each proposal.
How do I submit a proposal revision?
During an official proposal revision period the ANES staff will post a final, revised version of your proposal for you. In revising your proposal, you can consider comments that were made on your proposal or other feedback you received. You can also make any other changes that you like. Receiving comments is not required to revise your proposal.
To submit a proposal revision, you must follow the same rules as in the How to Submit a Proposal document, emailing the revised proposal to anes-proposals@electionstudies.org. Please note in the email that you are submitting a revision to an existing proposal. You must also refer to the original proposal title and list the usernames of all the authors.
Is there any way to revise my proposal before the
official proposal revision period?
Prior to the official proposal revision period for a study, you may post comments on your own proposal (as a "reply") but you can not re-post your entire proposal. Your comments can indicate what changes you intend to make during the official proposal revision period.
You can use the comment function to mention typographical errors that you intend to fix. You can use the comment function to describe how in your forthcoming revision you will address comments that were made on your proposal. And you can use the comment function for anything else you wish to mention regarding any forthcoming revision.
Use of the comment function saves Online Commons users from having to re-read your entire proposal again if they are only interested in what has changed since they last read it. Use of the comment function also encourages discussion of the changes you are describing.
During the official revision period, you can prepare and submit your revised proposal with any and all changes incorporated, and we will post your full, revised proposal at that time.