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

总概要：该奖项继续了基金会对政治方法论学会的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20世纪80年代的一个小团体发展到目前的社会科学定量方法论发展的领导者地位，并为数百名学者的职业发展做出了贡献，其中几乎包括当今该领域的所有主要研究人员。该奖项提供的支持维持并进一步发展了展示、讨论和加速政治学定量方法的场所，其核心重点是鼓励、指导和支持政治方法论中代表性不足的群体。政治方法论跨越了政治学的研究领域，并越来越多地超越了其他学科和纯统计科学，从而促进了跨学科和社会科学新知识的创造。因此，对研究生的投资和对代表性不足群体的增加包容具有重要影响。该奖项支持政治方法论学会的研究和培训任务。提供的资金将：(1)确保合格但资金不足的研究生能够参加协会的夏季会议；(2)继续鼓励大学资助和召开以主题为导向的小型会议，强调特定的技术技能，促进高水平的网络和指导；(3)继续为女性方法学家召开小型会议和相关工作。(4)继续发展积极多样的本科生外展项目，即本科生政治高级实证研究项目（AERoPUP）。AERoPUP计划的目标是高校的本科生（尤其是女性、少数族裔和经济背景不利的学生）和/或主修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.