WORKSHOP: Support for Graduates Students at the University of Houston EITM Summer Training Institute

休斯顿大学理论模型的经验影响(EITM)暑期培训学院促进了政治学中理论分析和实证分析之间的严谨和富有成效的对话。虽然许多政治学家擅长为重要的政治现象开发复杂的理论模型，但对这种努力如何为实证工作提供信息的关注不足，可能会将这项研究的相关性限制在重要的社会现象上。另一方面，拥有数据集和统计包，但缺乏精确和逻辑一致的理论的学者，可能无法提供可信的因果关系描述。EITM的研究方法基于这样一个前提，即关注理论模型和经验工作之间的逻辑关系可以在两者中产生改进。这种方法本质上比大多数部门目前配备的课程更先进。休斯顿大学EITM暑期培训学院为参与者提供了学习和从事创新研究实践的独特机会。该学院的培训包括重要的教学和研究部分，为学生提供与EITM导师的高度个性化互动，其范围和深度远远超过任何单个机构。学生与其他学生和导师建立联系，这将有助于他们在研究生院的发展、他们的研究以及他们的学术或非学术职业。总而言之，该研究所将对那些在研究生课程中可能没有这些机会的研究生产生直接的积极影响。这可能会增加整个学术界的智力资本。其他好处包括传播改进的研究和基于互联网的课程材料，如EITM教学大纲、课堂讲稿、作业练习、演示、复制数据集和工作论文，这些材料在向学生发布后立即向公众提供。这样的活动可以增加科学研究的社会相关性。

The University of Houston Emperical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Training Institute facilitates a rigorous and productive dialogue between theoretical and empirical analysis in political science. While many political scientists are skilled at developing intricate theoretical models of important political phenomena, insufficient attention to the manner in which such efforts can inform empirical work can limit the relevance of this research to important social phenomena. On the other hand, scholars armed with a dataset and a statistics package, but bereft of precise and logically coherent theory, may be unable to provide credible accounts of cause and effect. The EITM research approach is based on the premise that attention to the logical relationships between theoretical models and empirical work can produce improvements in both. Such approaches are inherently more advanced than the courses most departments currently staff. The University of Houston EITM Summer Training Institute provides participants with unique opportunities to learn and pursue innovative research practices. Training at the institute includes significant teaching and research components, providing students a high degree of individualized interaction with a far wider and deeper array of EITM mentors than are available at any individual institution. Students develop bonds with other students and mentors that will facilitate their development in graduate school, their research, and their academic or non-academic careers. Together, the institute will create a direct positive impact for graduate students who may not have these opportunities in their graduate programs. This could increase the intellectual capital of the scholarly community as a whole. Other benefits include the dissemination of improved research and internet-based course materials such as EITM syllabi, lecture notes, homework exercises, demonstrations, replication datasets, and working papers, which are made available to the public as soon as they are released to the students. Such activities can increase the social relevance of scientific research.