NSF Graduate Traineeships "Democracy and Democratization: Social Conditions, Institutional Forms, Transitions"

GER-9554569卡尔霍恩本提案旨在加强研究生在社会学、历史学、人类学和政治学方面的跨学科培训，以便能够更好地帮助理解(A)民主的社会条件，(B)向民主过渡的性质及其巩固，(C)从历史的角度看民主，以及(D)民主发展中的文化和种族问题。北卡罗来纳州大学的培训方案专门旨在克服三种主要工作风格之间令人遗憾的严重分歧：大规模量化数据集研究；对数量较少的案例(包括比较背景下的单个案例)的比较定量和定性历史研究和民族志研究；以及社会和政治理论。所有受训人员都将在这三种主要的实地工作方法中获得能力。培训计划将以为期两个学期的跨学科课程序列为中心，要求所有学员每年提供一次，并为学员、其他感兴趣的研究生和教职员工举办研讨会。所有受训人员将有资格获得北卡罗来纳大学最多四年的进一步财政支持，条件是取得令人满意的进展。学员将由一个由首席调查员和来自四个系的教员组成的委员会挑选。学员将有机会在培训年度结束后的夏季进行国际实地实习。与厄立特里亚宪法委员会、福特基金会和印度的一批非政府组织，以及俄罗斯和东欧、亚洲、非洲和拉丁美洲的大学研究中心建立了项目。

GER-9554569 Calhoun The present proposal seeks to enhance the interdisciplinary training of graduate students in sociology, history, anthropology, and political science to be better able to contribute to understanding of (a) the social conditions of democracy (b) the nature of transitions to democracy and their consolidation, (c) democracy in historical perspective, and (d) cultural and ethnic issues in democratic development. The UNC Traineeship program aims specifically to overcome the unfortunately sharp divisions between three major styles of work: studies of large scale quantitative data sets; comparative quantitative and qualitative historical studies and ethnographic studies of smaller numbers of cases (including single cases set in comparative context); and social and political theory. All trainees will gain competence in all three of these major approaches to the field. The Traineeship program will be centered in a two-semester interdisciplinary course sequence required of all trainees and offered annually, and a proseminar for trainees, other interested graduate students, and faculty. All trainees will be eligible for up to four years of further financial support from UNC, contingent on satisfactory progress. Trainees will be selected by a committee composed of the Principal Investigator and faculty from the four departments. Trainees will have the option of an international field practicum in the summer after their Traineeship year. Programs are in place with the Constitutional Commission of Eritrea, the Ford Foundation and a cluster of NGOs in India, and university-based research centers in Russia and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.