WORKSHOP: Support for Institutes and Research Groups on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research: 2015-2017

定性和多方法研究所是每年夏天在锡拉丘兹大学举行的为期两周的会议。该研究所促进政治学和其他社会科学学科中定性研究方法的教学和应用。考虑到使用多种分析技术可以提供的推理杠杆作用，研究所的教师和参与者，因此其教学法，也非常关注定性方法如何加强和补充替代分析方法。目前的提案要求NSF支持该研究所及其相关研究小组的第14、15和16次迭代（2015-2017）。研究小组是一个为期两天的作者讲习班，在每个研究所为期两周的会期内至少举行一次会议。该研究所现已牢固确立为强化教学，培训进行，并准备教定性和多方法研究的首要场所。到2014年6月，将有1 600多名研究生和初级教员在该研究所接受高级定性方法的指导，该研究所还对定性和多方法规范的发展产生了直接和有益的影响，特别是在政治学领域。在研究所介绍和讨论了关于发展、传播和/或使用定性方法的书籍和文章的早期版本。即将在研究所进行的“道路测试”工作为作者提供了一个无与伦比的机会，可以从具有不同认识承诺和实质性兴趣的读者那里获得宝贵的反馈和批评。在该研究所的交流也导致了教师和参与者之间的合作写作项目，并刺激了新的方法研究这两个群体。研究小组的主要任务之一是鼓励和授权年轻学者在方法学领域发表论文，从而增强和扩大定性和多方法研究的核心标准。 该研究所提供高层次的，精心设计的指令，从一个广泛的国家和越来越多的国际选区绘制一个大而多样化的与会者群体。 社发所对改进社会科学方法培训的贡献导致了更严格和方法自觉的研究。训研所有意与发展中国家的学者开展外联活动，这有可能产生特别强大的倍增效应，使这些参与者能够继续在其所在机构教授他们学到的知识，从而将训研所的影响力扩大到地球仪的多个地点。

The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research is a two-week meeting held each summer at Syracuse University. The Institute promotes the teaching and application of qualitative research methods in political science and other social science disciplines. Given the inferential leverage that using multiple analytic techniques can deliver, the Institute's instructors and participants, and thus its pedagogy, are also strongly concerned with how qualitative methods undergird and complement alternative analytic approaches. The current proposal requests NSF's support for the 14th, 15th and 16th iterations of the Institute (2015-2017) and its associated Research Group. The Research Group is a two-day authors' workshop that meets at least once during each Institute's two-week duration. The Institute is now firmly established as the premier venue for intensive instruction on, training to conduct, and preparation to teach qualitative and multi-method research. By June 2014, over 1,600 graduate students and junior faculty will have received instruction on advanced qualitative methods at the Institute.The Institute has also had a direct and beneficial influence on the development of the qualitative and multi-methods canon, especially in political science. Early versions of books and articles developing, disseminating and/or using qualitative methods have been presented and discussed at the Institute. "Road-testing" forthcoming work at the Institute gives authors an unparalleled opportunity to receive valuable feedback and criticism from an audience with diverse epistemic commitments and substantive interests. Interchange at the Institute has also resulted in collaborative writing projects among faculty and participants, and has stimulated new methodological research by both groups. One of the primary missions of the Research Group is to encourage and empower young scholars to publish in the field of methodology, thus enhancing and expanding the core canon of published research on qualitative and multi-method research. The Institute provides high-level, carefully designed instruction for a large and diverse group of attendees drawn from a wide national and, increasingly, international constituency. The Institute's contribution to improving methodological training in the social sciences has resulted in more rigorous and methodologically self-conscious research. Its deliberate outreach to scholars from developing countries has the potential to induce an especially powerful multiplier effect when those participants go on to teach what they have learned at their home institution, thereby extending the Institute's reach to multiple locations around the globe.