Support for Conferences in Political Methodology

这项提议要求在1999-2003年期间支助一系列的五次政治方法会议。 这些会议扩展了自1986年以来在NSF支持下开发的MDoel。 这些会议通过以下方式向新的方向发展：（1）向更多的研究生和教师开放参与以前是可能的;（2）扩大该计划，以吸引以前较少使用定量方法的领域的学者;（3）为研究生增加为期一天的介绍，为提交论文中要解决的更高级主题提供基础。 每次会议由大约100名来自初级和高级教师和大量高级研究生的政治方法学家组成。 会议提供了一个论坛，介绍，讨论和评估工作的方法论前沿的政治科学。

This proposal requests support for a series of five political methodology conferences during the 1999-2003 period. These conferences extend the mdoel developed with NSF support since 1986. These conferences move in new directions by: (1) opening participation to more graduate students and faculty was previously possible; (2) expanding the program to attract explicitly scholars in areas that previously have made less use of quantitative methodology; (3) adding a one-day introduction for graduate students that provides a foundation for the more advanced topics to be addressed in presented papers. Each meeting consists of approximately 100 political methodologists drawn from both junior and senior faculty and a substantial number of advanced graduate students. The conferences provide a forum for the presentation, discussion, and evaluation of work at the methodological frontier of political science.