NSF Graduate Traineeships "Democracy and Democratization: Social Conditions, Institutional Forms, Transitions"

本提案旨在加强对社会学、历史学、人类学和政治学研究生的跨学科培训，以便更好地理解(a)民主的社会条件(b)向民主过渡的性质及其巩固，(c)历史视角下的民主，以及(d)民主发展中的文化和民族问题。北卡罗来纳大学实习生计划的目标是克服三种主要工作风格之间不幸的尖锐分歧：大规模定量数据集的研究；比较数量和质量的历史研究和少数案例的民族志研究（包括在比较背景下设定的单个案例）；以及社会和政治理论。所有受训者都将获得所有这三种主要方法的能力。培训计划将以两个学期的跨学科课程序列为中心，所有学员都必须参加，每年提供一次，并为学员、其他感兴趣的研究生和教职员工举办一次研讨会。所有受训人员将有资格获得联合国军司令部长达四年的进一步财政支助，视进展情况而定。受训者将由一个由首席研究员及四个学系教员组成的委员会选出。实习生将在他们的实习年之后的夏天选择国际实地实习。我们与厄立特里亚宪法委员会、福特基金会和印度的一些非政府组织以及俄罗斯、东欧、亚洲、非洲和拉丁美洲的大学研究中心合作开展了一些项目。

GER-9554569 Calhoun The present proposal seeks to enhance the interdisciplinary training of graduate students in sociology, history, anthropology, and political science to be better able to contribute to understanding of (a) the social conditions of democracy (b) the nature of transitions to democracy and their consolidation, (c) democracy in historical perspective, and (d) cultural and ethnic issues in democratic development. The UNC Traineeship program aims specifically to overcome the unfortunately sharp divisions between three major styles of work: studies of large scale quantitative data sets; comparative quantitative and qualitative historical studies and ethnographic studies of smaller numbers of cases (including single cases set in comparative context); and social and political theory. All trainees will gain competence in all three of these major approaches to the field. The Traineeship program will be centered in a two-semester interdisciplinary course sequence required of all trainees and offered annually, and a proseminar for trainees, other interested graduate students, and faculty. All trainees will be eligible for up to four years of further financial support from UNC, contingent on satisfactory progress. Trainees will be selected by a committee composed of the Principal Investigator and faculty from the four departments. Trainees will have the option of an international field practicum in the summer after their Traineeship year. Programs are in place with the Constitutional Commission of Eritrea, the Ford Foundation and a cluster of NGOs in India, and university-based research centers in Russia and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.