The Law and Social Science Program of the National Science Foundation is awarding Neal Tate two supplemental grants (totaling $44,797) in suport of his ongoing NSF project "Political Turbulence and Supreme Court Politics in Democratizing Latin American Nations."  One award, in the amount of $26,597, will support continued work on the project by postdocs Fernanda Boidi and Juan Carlos Donoso and Ph.D. candidate Vivian Schwarz-Blum and their in-country research assistants.  The other, in the amount of $18,200, is a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) supplement that will support work on the project by two undergraduate assistants during the 2009-2010 academic year and Summer, 2010.