Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Summer Institute

政治和社会过程理论模型的发展给实证分析带来了许多挑战。事实证明，可检验假设的推导和检验假设的适当方法的设计都具有挑战性。许多问题在测试所有理论时都是常见的，但在测试解释战略互动和长期过程的正式理论时，有一些是新的或特别重要的。研究人员介绍了在圣路易斯华盛顿大学校园提供的四个关于理论模型实证意义的暑期课程（EITM - 2007-2010）。他们的目标是推进方法和模型的研究，并扩大研究界在这一领域的前沿专业知识。每个EITM暑期学院由四到五个研讨会组成。一个介绍性研讨会和几个高级研讨会。在为期四年的课程中，讲师和高级研讨会的主题轮流进行。每个高级研讨会都关注政治的正式模型与政治科学或政治经济学实质性领域的实证研究方法之间的关系。正式的模型涉及博弈论，空间理论，社会和公共选择理论，和一般均衡模型。实证方法包括基本和高级计量经济学技术、空间模型和实验技术。参加研讨会的教员来自华盛顿大学和其他几所大学。参加EITM暑期学院的华盛顿大学教师包括Randall Calvert、Ethan Buenode Mesquita、Lee Epstein、Andrew Martin、Gary Miller、Norman Schofield、Itai Sened和Steven Smith。其他教师包括查尔斯·卡梅伦，基思·克雷比尔，凯文·奎因，托马斯·帕尔弗雷，柯蒂斯·西格诺里诺和里克·威尔逊。研讨会嘉宾包括Eric Brown， Simon Jackman, Rebecca Morton， Keith Poole和Pablo Spiller。这个奖项和过去一样，每年都有25名学生参加。为学生提供校内住宿，并提供交通和住宿补贴。由华盛顿大学教师组成的EITM委员会继续管理该项目。更广泛的影响：这些研究所为研究生提供尖端的研究和教学，对政治学学科有潜在的变革性影响。

Developments in theoretical models of political and social processes have createdmany challenges to empirical analysis. Both the derivation of testable hypotheses and design of appropriate methods for testing hypotheses have proven challenging. Many of the problems are common to testing all theories but a few are new or particularly important in the testing of formal theories that account for strategic interactions and long-term processes.The investigators present four summer institutes on Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM - 2007-2010) to be offered on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. Their goal is to advance the study of methods and models and to expand the research community with cutting-edge expertise in this area.Each of the EITM Summer Institutes is composed of four or five seminars ?anintroductory seminar and several advanced seminars. The instructors and the subjects addressed in the advanced seminars rotate over the four-year period of the program.Each advanced seminar concerns the relationship between formal models of politics and empirical research methods in a substantive field of political science or political economy. The formal models addressed span game theory, spatial theory, social and public choice theories, and general equilibrium models. Empirical methods include basic and advanced econometric techniques, spatial models, and experimental techniques.The faculty for the seminars is drawn from Washington University faculty andfrom faculty from several other universities. The Washington University facultyparticipating in the EITM Summer Institute include Randall Calvert, Ethan Buenode Mesquita, Lee Epstein, Andrew Martin, Gary Miller, Norman Schofield, Itai Sened, and Steven Smith. Additional faculty instructors include Charles Cameron, Keith Krehbiel, Kevin Quinn, Thomas Palfrey, Curtis Signorino, and Rick Wilson. Seminar guests include Eric Brown, Simon Jackman, Rebecca Morton, Keith Poole, and Pablo Spiller.This award continues the program with 25 student participants each year as wehave in the past. Students are offered on-campus housing and provided traveland lodging subsidies. An EITM committee composed of Washington University faculty continues to administer the program.Broader Impacts: The institutes provide cutting edge research and teaching to graduate students in a way that has a potentially transformative impact on the discipline of Political Science.