EITM Summer Training Institute (Political Science Program)

科学需要对理论进行实证检验。虽然大多数人都同意将理论与证据联系起来的基本需要，但许多看似合理的理论都没有得到检验，许多实证工作都是基于过于简化的理论，而这些理论根本就是建立在理论之上的。理论方法和经验方法之间存在着巨大的差距，这些差距损害了科学知识的积累。理论模型的经验含义(EITM)暑期研究所就是为了改善这一问题而设计的。该研究所通过提供与更多资深学者合作学习的机会，增加了年轻学者的智力发展，这些学者是推动综合理论和实证工作的领导者。除了每年培训25名学生外，该学院还培训了6名初级教职员工。这些初级教师驻校计划的成员接受过开发和监督实施基于EITM的材料的研究生课程的培训，并作为学生参与者的为期一个月的导师，帮助开发学生的研究项目。基于EITM的培训的价值超越了学术发展。政治、政策和社会决策同样甚至更多地依赖于合理的推理和经验推断。新一代社会科学家训练有素，不仅考虑学术价值，而且考虑逻辑上一致的、有支配性的结论的社会价值，也就是按照唐纳德·斯托克斯所说的“帕斯卡象限”行事，可以做的不亚于改善社会期望结果的实施。

Science requires empirical tests of theory. Whle most agree with the basic need to link theories to evidence many plausible theoreis go untested, and much empirical work is based on over-simplified theory, when based on theory at all. Significant gaps exist between theoretical and empirical methods, and these gaps impair the accumulation of scientific knowledge.The Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute has been designed to ameliorate this problem. The institute increases the intellectual development of young scholars by offering opportunities to learn in conjunction with more senior scholars who are leaders in advancing integrated theory and empirical work. In addition to training 25 students a year, the institute also trains six junior faculty. These members of the Junior-Faculty-in-Residence Program are trained in developing and supervised in implementing graduate courses in EITM based materials and serve as month-long mentors to the student participants, helping develop the students' research projects.The value of EITM-based training extends beyond scholarly development. Political, policy, and social decisions depend just as much , perhaps even more, on sound reasoning and empirical inferences. A new generation of social scientists well trained in considering not just the academic merit but the social value of logically conistent, emperically grounded conclusions, acting , that is, on what Donald Stokes called "Pascal's Quadrant," can do no less than improve implementation of socially desirable outcomes.