Support for Conferences in Political Methodology

这项建议要求支持在1999-2003年期间举行一系列五次政治方法会议。这些会议扩展了自1986年以来在NSF支持下开发的模型。这些会议朝着新的方向发展：(1)向更多的研究生和教师开放参与，这在以前是可能的；(2)扩大项目规模，吸引以前较少使用定量方法的领域的学者；(3)为研究生增加为期一天的介绍，为论文中将要讨论的更高级的主题提供基础。每次会议由大约100名政治方法学家组成，他们来自初级和高级教员以及相当数量的高级研究生。这些会议为政治科学方法论前沿的展示、讨论和评估工作提供了一个论坛。

This proposal requests support for a series of five political methodology conferences during the 1999-2003 period. These conferences extend the mdoel developed with NSF support since 1986. These conferences move in new directions by: (1) opening participation to more graduate students and faculty was previously possible; (2) expanding the program to attract explicitly scholars in areas that previously have made less use of quantitative methodology; (3) adding a one-day introduction for graduate students that provides a foundation for the more advanced topics to be addressed in presented papers. Each meeting consists of approximately 100 political methodologists drawn from both junior and senior faculty and a substantial number of advanced graduate students. The conferences provide a forum for the presentation, discussion, and evaluation of work at the methodological frontier of political science.