WORKSHOP: The American Constitution: A Conference on the 225th Anniversary of the Ratification

美国宪法：纪念《宪法》批准225周年学术研讨会历史、法律、政治学和经济学的学者都对美利坚共和国的诞生进行了研究。 尽管两个多世纪以来对建国时期的流行和学术研究，理论和数据的整合才刚刚开始。 这个项目支持一个为期两天的会议，探讨是否建立理论和数据分析可能会改善对美国建国的研究。 在宪法批准225周年之际，会议将举办一些政治科学家和经济学家，他们使用统计和空间缩放技术，以及历史学家，法学教授和早期美国政治思想专家，他们了解事件背后的历史和法律的传统。 我们的目标将是实现一个更科学的理解美国建国是由历史和法律很好地通知。 与会学者将讨论测试美国建国纪念的最佳方法，下一代研究需要哪些数据，以及将定量方法应用于两百多年前的事件的可行性。 会议还将传播在国家科学基金会的支持下收集的制宪会议代表投票的广泛数据集（Doughnut和Heckelman 2010）。 更广泛的影响为了确保会议达到尽可能广泛的影响，专家演讲将通过网络广播提供，教师从传统上代表机构将通过公开招聘论文，从主机和其他大学的研究生将在充分参与者，本科生将有机会在本科生海报会议上展示他们的研究。 这将使学生能够直接从专家那里学习，并就自己对美国建国的想法获得反馈。 所有会议都将向公众开放，并将在整个区域进行宣传。

AbstractThe American Constitution: A Conference on the 225th Anniversary of the Ratification Intellectual MeritThe birth of the American republic has been studied by scholars in history, law, political science, and economics. Despite over two centuries of popular and scholarly study of the Founding Era, the integration of theory and data is just beginning. This project supports a two a two-day conference that examines whether established theory and data analysis might improve research on the American Founding. Coinciding with the 225th anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution, the conference will host a number of political scientists and economists who use statistical and spatial scaling techniques as well as historians, law professors and experts in early American political thought who understand the history and legal traditions behind the event. The goal will be to attain a more scientific understanding of the American Founding that is well informed by history and law. Participating scholars will discuss the best ways to test conjectures about the American Founding, what data is needed for the next generation of studies, and the viability of applying quantitative methods to an event over two hundred years old. The conference will also disseminate an extensive data set on delegate votes at the Constitutional Convention gathered with support from the National Science Foundation (Dougherty and Heckelman 2010). Broader ImpactTo assure that the conference attains the broadest possible impact, expert presentations will be made available via webcasts, faculty from traditionally under represented institutions will be recruited through an open call for papers, graduate students from the host and other universities will be among the full participants, and undergraduates will have an opportunity to present their research in an undergraduate poster session. This will allow students to learn directly from the experts and to get feedback on their own ideas about the American Founding. All sessions will be open to the public, which will be advertised throughout the region.