Collaborative Conference Proposal: Support for Conferences and Mentoring of Women and Underrepresented Groups in Political Methodology

该奖项延续了基金会对政治方法论学会研究和培训活动的长期支持。过去的支持推动了政治方法论领域的发展，从1980年代的一个小团体发展到现在的地位，成为整个社会科学量化方法发展的领导者，并为数百名学者的职业发展做出了贡献，其中包括今天该领域的几乎每一位主要研究人员。该奖项提供的支持维持并进一步发展了介绍、讨论和加速政治学量化方法的场所，核心重点是鼓励、指导和支持政治方法论中代表不足的群体。政治方法论跨越政治学的研究领域，并越来越多地延伸到其他学科和纯统计科学，产生的进步促进了跨学科和社会科学的新知识的创造。因此，对研究生的投资和对代表性不足群体的纳入具有重要影响。该奖项支持政治方法学会的研究和培训任务。提供的资金将：(1)确保符合条件但资金不足的研究生能够参加学会的夏季会议；(2)继续鼓励大学赞助和召开以主题为导向的小型会议，强调特定的技术技能，培养高水平的网络和指导；(3)继续为女性方法学家举办小型会议和相关努力；以及(4)继续发展一个积极的多样化的本科生外展计划，即本科生政治学高级实证研究计划(AERoPUP)。AERoPUP计划的目标是学院和大学的本科生(特别是女性、代表性不足的少数族裔和来自经济困难背景的学生)和/或接触当代定量实证政治学的机会有限的学科。

The General Summary:This award continues long-standing Foundation support for the research and training activities of the Society for Political Methodology. Past support has propelled the development of the field of political methodology from a small group in the 1980s to its current position as a leader in the development of quantitative methodologies across the social sciences and has contributed to the career development of hundreds of scholars including nearly every leading researcher in the field today. Support provided in this award maintains and further develops venues for presenting, discussing, and accelerating quantitative methods in political science, with a core focus on encouraging, mentoring, and enabling under-represented groups in political methodology. Political methodology reaches across research areas in political science and increasingly beyond, into other disciplines and pure statistical sciences generating advances that facilitate the creation of new knowledge across the discipline and the social sciences. Thus, this investment in graduate students and increased inclusion of under-represented groups have important impacts.The Technical Summary This award supports the research and training missions of the Society for Political Methodology. Funds provided will: (1) ensure that qualified but insufficiently-funded graduate students can participate in the Society's Summer Meeting, (2) continue incentivizing universities to underwrite and convene small thematically-oriented meetings that emphasize particular technical skills and foster high levels of networking and mentoring, (3) continue the convening of small conferences and related efforts for women methodologists, and (4) continue the development of an aggressive diversifying undergraduate-outreach program, the Advanced Empirical Research in Politics for Undergraduates Program (AERoPUP). The AERoPUP program targets undergraduates (particularly women, under-represented minorities, and students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds) at colleges and universities and/or majoring in disciplines in which opportunities for exposure to contemporary quantitative empirical political science are otherwise limited.