Support for Institutes and Research Groups on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research: 2018-2020

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。该研究所促进定性研究方法在政治学和其他社会科学学科中的教学和应用。鉴于使用多种分析技术可以提供推论杠杆作用，研究所的教员和参与者及其教学方法也非常关注定性方法如何支持和补充替代分析方法。目前的提案要求国家科学基金会为研究所(2015-2017)及其相关研究小组的第14、15和16次迭代提供支持。研究小组是一个为期两天的作者研讨会，在每个研究所的两周时间里至少举行一次会议。该研究所现在牢固地确立了作为强化教学、进行培训和准备教授定性和多方法研究的首要场所。到2014年6月，1600多名研究生和初级教员将在研究所接受先进定性方法的指导。该研究所还对定性和多种方法正典的发展产生了直接和有益的影响，特别是在政治学方面。在研究所介绍和讨论了编写、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，可以从具有不同认知承诺和实质性兴趣的观众那里获得宝贵的反馈和批评。该研究所的交流还导致了教职员工和参与者之间的合作写作项目，并促进了两个群体的新的方法论研究。研究组的主要任务之一是鼓励和增强青年学者在方法论领域发表论文的能力，从而加强和扩大已发表的定性和多方法研究的核心典范。该研究所为一大群不同的与会者提供高水平、精心设计的指导，这些与会者来自广泛的国家，而且越来越多的是国际选民。研究所对改进社会科学方法论培训的贡献使研究更加严谨，在方法论上更加自觉。它有意接触发展中国家的学者，有可能在这些参与者继续在本国机构教授他们所学的知识时，产生特别强大的乘数效应，从而将研究所的覆盖范围扩大到全球多个地点

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