WORKSHOP: Support for Conferences and Mentoring in Political Methodology

该项目支持政治方法学会努力支持资金不足的研究生，扩大对妇女和代表性不足群体成员的指导和联网工作，以及制定新的包容性方案，使历史上参与该次领域活动较少的群体更容易进入该次领域。在授标期间，该项目将：（1）确保合格的，但不受资助的研究生可以参加并参加我们非常成功的夏季方法会议，（2）继续举行小型主题会议，强调特定的技术技能，并促进高水平的网络和指导，（3）继续为女性方法学家举办一系列小型会议，有意将该领域的高级领导人与年轻的新兴学者混合在一起，他们可以从这种密切的个人互动中受益匪浅。 这包括维护和开发多个场所，用于展示，讨论和推进政治学中的定量方法，直接关注于发现，指导和支持政治方法中代表性不足的群体。由于本提案中的所有计划和倡议都是针对这些情况下的个人，其效果是大大扩大了对方法论知识广度的访问。夏季会议是众所周知的学科师生互动，初级和高级教师之间的网络形成，并揭示了在定量政治学创造新知识的过程。方法在政治学的大，多样的领域发挥着特殊的作用，因为它涉及学科的其他研究领域，提供知识和工具的历史，帮助研究人员谁不是自己确定为方法论。因此，对研究生的计划投资和从这种支持中增加对代表性不足的群体的包容将对整个学科产生影响。

This project supports the Society for Political Methodology's efforts to support underfunded graduate students, expand mentoring and networking efforts for women and members of underrepresented groups, as well as to develop new inclusive programs for making the subfield more accessible to groups with historically lower participation in the activities of the subfield. During the award period the project will: (1) ensure that qualified, but insufficiently-funded graduate students can attend and participate in our highly successful Summer methodology meetings, (2) continue holding small thematically oriented meetings that emphasize particular technical skills and foster a high level of networking and mentoring, and (3) continue a series of small meetings for women methodologists that deliberately mix senior leaders in the subfield with young, emerging scholars who can benefit substantially from such close personal interaction. This includes maintaining and developing multiple venues for presenting, discussing, and advancing quantitative methods in political science, with a direct focus on finding, mentoring, and enabling under-represented groups in political methodology. Since all of the programs and initiatives in this proposal are targeted at individuals in these circumstances, the effect is to dramatically widen the access to the intellectual breadth of methodology. The summer meeting is well known in the discipline for faculty-student interaction, network formation between junior and senior faculty, and revealing the process of creating new knowledge in quantitative political science.Methodology plays a special role in the large, diverse field of political science, since it reaches across other areas of research in the discipline, with a history of providing knowledge and tools that help researchers who are not themselves self identified as methodologists. Thus the planned investment in graduate students and increased inclusion of underrepresented groups from this support will have an impact that stretches across the discipline.