Workshops on Political Institutions and Economic Policy (Political Science Program: EITM Competition IIIb.)

比较族裔进程实验室（LiCEP）将举办四个半年期讲习班，主题是族裔动员、民族主义和内战。LiCEP是一个跨大学的研究小组，旨在通过系统的交叉检查正式的理论模型和实证evidence.The实质性的问题，LiCEP探讨，以提高我们的民族动员的原因和后果的理解包括：在什么条件下，个人参与种族，而不是非民族集体行动？导致大规模反抗国家的条件是什么？种族间的骚乱何时以及为何会发生？在国内暴力事件之后，种族间的关系是如何重新谈判的？在什么条件下，族裔动员采取了族裔投票和政党组建等更为“常规”的形式？ 不同形式的民族动员对政策制定和国家巩固进程有何影响？民族动员与认同形成过程本身又是如何相互作用的？讲习班的主要目标是评估实验室生成的数据集，对统计、正式和基于代理的模型进行逆向工程，并使正式模型与经验证据进行更直接的互动。

The Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes (LiCEP) will conduct four biannual workshops on the theme of ethnic mobilization, nationalism and civil war. LiCEP is an inter-university research group that seeks to improve our understanding of the causes and consequences of ethnic mobilization through the systematic cross examination of formal theoretical models and empirical evidence.The substantive questions that LiCEP explores include: What are the conditions under which individuals participate in ethnic as opposed to non-ethnic collective action? What are the conditions that lead to large-scale rebellions against the state? When and why do inter-ethnic riots occur? How are inter- ethnic relations renegotiated in the aftermath of civil violence? What are the conditions under which ethnic mobilization takes the more "routine" forms in the form of ethnic voting and party formation? What is the impact that different forms of ethnic mobilization have on policy-making and processes of state consolidation? And how does ethnic mobilization interact with the process of identity formation itself? The principal goals of the workshops are to evaluate lab-generated datasets, reverse engineer statistical, formal and agent-based models, and bring formal models into more direct interaction with empirical evidence.