EITM Summer Training Institute (Political Science Program)

科学需要对理论进行实证检验。 虽然大多数人都同意将理论与证据联系起来的基本需要，但许多看似合理的理论未经检验，许多实证工作都是基于过于简化的理论，而不是基于理论。 理论方法和经验方法之间存在着巨大的差距，这些差距阻碍了科学知识的积累。理论模型的经验含义（EITM）暑期研究所旨在改善这一问题。 该研究所通过提供与更资深的学者一起学习的机会来提高年轻学者的智力发展，这些学者是推进综合理论和实证工作的领导者。 除了每年培训25名学生外，该学院还培训6名初级教师。 这些三年级驻校教师计划的成员接受了开发基于EITM的材料的研究生课程的培训和实施监督，并担任学生参与者为期一个月的导师，帮助开发学生的研究项目。基于EITM的培训的价值超出了学术发展的范围。政治、政策和社会决策同样依赖于合理的推理和经验推断，甚至可能更依赖于这些推理和经验推断。 新一代的社会科学家受过良好的训练，不仅考虑学术价值，而且考虑逻辑上连贯的社会价值，以经验为基础的结论，也就是说，根据唐纳德·斯托克斯所谓的“帕斯卡象限”行事，可以做的不仅仅是改善社会理想结果的实施。

Science requires empirical tests of theory. Whle most agree with the basic need to link theories to evidence many plausible theoreis go untested, and much empirical work is based on over-simplified theory, when based on theory at all. Significant gaps exist between theoretical and empirical methods, and these gaps impair the accumulation of scientific knowledge.The Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute has been designed to ameliorate this problem. The institute increases the intellectual development of young scholars by offering opportunities to learn in conjunction with more senior scholars who are leaders in advancing integrated theory and empirical work. In addition to training 25 students a year, the institute also trains six junior faculty. These members of the Junior-Faculty-in-Residence Program are trained in developing and supervised in implementing graduate courses in EITM based materials and serve as month-long mentors to the student participants, helping develop the students' research projects.The value of EITM-based training extends beyond scholarly development. Political, policy, and social decisions depend just as much , perhaps even more, on sound reasoning and empirical inferences. A new generation of social scientists well trained in considering not just the academic merit but the social value of logically conistent, emperically grounded conclusions, acting , that is, on what Donald Stokes called "Pascal's Quadrant," can do no less than improve implementation of socially desirable outcomes.