EITM Summer Training Institute(Political Science Program: EITM Competition IIIa)

EITM暑期培训学院（政治学项目：EITM竞赛IIIa）

• 批准号: 0215621
• 负责人: James Alt
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-05-01 至 2008-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0215621&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EITM; Summer; Training; Institute; Political

The scientific study of politics requires empirical testing of theoretical models, but theories are often produced without adequate testing and empirical work too frequently uses sketchy and oversimplified theory. Gaps have appeared between theory and empirical method, and these gaps impair scientific progress. To ameliorate this scholars need to train a new generation of scholars who can better link theory and empirical work. The Principal Investigators will to foster this intellectual development by offering younger scholars an opportunity to learn by seeing and doing in conjunction with older scholars who have been leaders in advancing theory and empirical work, focusing on substantive areas where appreciable research integrating theory and methods already exists. A successful Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) summer program, given the current relative infancy of this approach to social science, must as much develop as disseminate substance. Thus the key regarding training is that each institute include significant teaching and research components, providing students a high degree of individualized interaction with a far wider and deeper array of EITM mentors than are available at any individual institution. The Principal Investigators have activities transcending passive receipt of lecture material, involving also significant opportunities to advance participants' own research by employing their newly gained knowledge about the integration of theory and method. The investigators foster integrated training by providing, in each of the four years from 2002-2005, in four locations (respectively Harvard, Michigan, Duke, and UC-Berkeley), a four-week summer program. Each of these institutes accommodates up to 25 advanced graduate students and junior faculty. The program is selective and admission is based significantly on the quality and potential of research presented. A team of up to 15 research faculty conducts each institute in a framework detailed below. The investigators take a broad view of the theoretical models and empirical methods used to evaluate and test implications. Formal models on which instruction will build include game theory, differential equation dynamic models, and simple decision theory and more complicated behavioral decision-making models. The empirical toolkit should cover not only statistical inference but also focused analytically-based case studies, and experimental methods. Computational models have both theoretical and empirical relevance in the program. Six areas are outlined that have sufficiently matured in combining micro-oriented, institutionally rich theory with rigorous structural estimation to offer fruitful possibilities for integrated instruction. The six areas, with examples of integrated research and teaching outlines, cover spatial models, institutional analysis, macropolitical economy, bargaining and coalitions, international security, and international political economy. The researchers include three such areas each year, and guarantee that there will be at least one repeat for cumulation and development and at least one new module each year. Using multiple hosts capitalizes on diverse, regionally available deep pools of talent unavailable in any single location. It offers regional balance in accessibility and fosters outreach to other departments in several locales. The four have complementary strengths in computational models, experimentation, and macro- and international political economy.

对政治的科学研究需要对理论模型进行实证检验，但理论往往是在没有充分检验的情况下产生的，实证工作也经常使用粗略和过于简化的理论。理论和经验方法之间出现了差距，这些差距阻碍了科学进步。为了改善这种状况，学者们需要培养新一代能够更好地将理论与实证工作联系起来的学者。主要研究人员将通过为年轻学者提供与年长学者一起学习的机会来促进这种智力发展，这些学者在推进理论和实证工作方面一直是领导者，专注于整合理论和方法的可观研究的实质性领域。一个成功的理论模型（EITM）暑期课程的经验意义，鉴于目前这种方法的社会科学相对婴儿期，必须尽可能多地发展传播的实质内容。因此，关于培训的关键是，每个学院都包括重要的教学和研究组成部分，为学生提供高度的个性化互动，与EITM导师的范围更广，更深，比任何单个机构都要多。主要研究者的活动超越了被动接受讲座材料，也涉及通过利用他们新获得的关于理论和方法整合的知识来推进参与者自己的研究的重要机会。研究人员在2002年至2005年的四年中，每年在四个地点（分别是哈佛、密歇根、杜克和加州大学伯克利分校）提供为期四周的暑期课程，以促进综合培训。每个学院可容纳25名高级研究生和初级教师。该计划是选择性的，录取主要基于所呈现的研究质量和潜力。一个由多达15名研究人员组成的团队在下面详细介绍的框架内管理每个研究所。调查人员采取了广泛的理论模型和实证方法来评估和测试的影响。教学所依据的正式模型包括博弈论、微分方程动态模型、简单决策理论和更复杂的行为决策模型。经验工具包不仅应包括统计推断，还应包括重点突出的基于分析的案例研究和实验方法。计算模型在程序中具有理论和经验相关性。本文概述了六个领域，这些领域在将微观导向、制度丰富的理论与严格的结构评估相结合方面已经足够成熟，为综合教学提供了富有成效的可能性。这六个领域，与综合研究和教学大纲的例子，涵盖空间模型，制度分析，宏观政治经济，谈判和联盟，国际安全和国际政治经济。研究人员每年包括三个这样的领域，并保证每年至少有一个重复的积累和发展，至少有一个新的模块。使用多个主机可以充分利用任何单一地点都无法提供的各种区域性人才库。它在无障碍方面实现了区域平衡，并促进了与几个地方其他部门的外联。这四个国家在计算模型、实验以及宏观和国际政治经济学方面具有互补优势。