Election Sciences Workshop

选举科学是一个新兴的学术领域，侧重于选举管理和行为的系统研究。这一领域的学者的目的是查明问题，提供有价值的数据和业绩衡量标准，以评估和改革选举制度，确保最高水平的廉正和选民准入。 选举科学夏季会议将汇集一批政治科学家，统计学家，计算机科学家和法律的学者有兴趣建立和多样化的领域。会议补充了学术努力，以确定选举科学的知识边界，定义主要的研究问题，创建一个网络，以支持初级学者和研究生，并创建用于研究生和本科教育的课程材料。 这次会议体现了NSF的使命，即扩大对有利于国家利益和加强安全的科学的参与。本次会议和研究，将走出会议将有助于确保美国选举被接受为合法的，使用安全和可靠的技术，并最大限度地提高公众参与。技术摘要选举科学夏季会议补充了由政治学资深学者领导的国家努力，并与法律，计算机科学和公共政策的选定学者合作。这些努力的主要目的是建立和制度化的选举科学作为一个学术研究领域。政治学家在帮助理解导致2000年选举危机的美国选举制度问题方面发挥了核心作用。 这项工作有助于形成随后的联邦选举改革立法，并为2012年选举后成立的总统委员会提供了研究。对于年轻学者来说，进入选举科学领域仍然存在重大障碍。选举科学家主要处理选民登记和选民历史文件，这两者都提出了具有挑战性的数据和统计推断问题。该领域在专业组织中也缺乏作为一个明确的“部门”的认可，因此很难作为一个有凝聚力的知识领域参加专业会议，从而稀释了知识贡献。学者需要接受培训，如何与选举官员，州立法者和其他政策制定者以有意义的方式互动。最后，也没有一套商定的教材来培养新一代的选举科学家。 本次会议将致力于减少这些障碍。会议遵循我们领域的既定模式（政治方法论，方法论，法律和政治，国会历史的愿景），提供一系列小型，重点突出的夏季会议，特别针对年轻学者和研究生。会议的成果，除了有价值的专业联系，将是一系列的研究论文，课程材料，最好是学术期刊的学术卷或特刊。

General AbstractElection sciences is an emerging field of scholarship that focuses on the systematic study of election administration and conduct. The aim of scholars in this field is to identify problems, provide valuable data and performance measures to assess and reform election systems to ensure the highest levels of integrity and voter access. The Election Sciences summer conference will bring together a group of political scientists, statisticians, computer scientists, and legal scholars interested in building and diversifying the field. The conference complements scholarly efforts to identify the intellectual boundaries of election sciences, define primary research questions, create a network to support junior scholars and graduate students, and create curricular materials for use in graduate and undergraduate education. The conference embodies NSF's mission to broaden participation in science that benefits the national interest and enhances security. This conference and the research that will come out of the conference will help to assure that American elections are accepted as legitimate, use safe and secure technology, and maximize public participation.Technical AbstractThe Election Sciences summer conference complements a national effort led by senior scholars in political science, and in partnership with selected scholars in law, computer science, and public policy. The primary aim of these efforts is to build and institutionalize election sciences as a scholarly field of study. Political scientists played a central role in helping to understand the problems in the American election system that contributed to the election crisis of 2000. This work helped to shape subsequent federal election reform legislation, and contributed research for the presidential commission established after the 2012 elections. Significant barriers to entry to the election sciences field still exist for younger scholars. Election scientists work primarily with voter registration and voter history files, both of which present challenging data and statistical inference problems. The field also lacks recognition as a defined "section" in professional organizations, making it difficult to participate in professional conferences as a cohesive intellectual field, thereby diluting the intellectual contributions. Scholars need to be trained how to interact with election officials, state legislators, and other policy makers in meaningful ways. Finally, there is no agreed upon set of curricular materials train a new generation of election scientist. This conference will work to reduce such barriers. The conference follows established models in our field (political methodology, visions in methodology, law and politics, history of congress) by offering a series of small, focused summer conferences, targeted particularly at younger scholars and graduate students. The deliverables from the conference, beyond valuable professional connections, will be a series of research papers, curricular materials, and ideally an academic volume or special issue of an academic journal.