Research Training Group in Positive Political Economy

实证政治经济学研究训练组

• 批准号: 9113328
• 负责人: James Alt
• 金额: $ 140.92万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-15 至 1998-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9113328&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Training; Group; Positive; Political

This award provides funds for the establishment of a Research Training Group in Positive Political Economy. The faculty group is composed of 12 distinguished Political Scientists and Economists from the Government and Economics Departments and the Kennedy School at Harvard University and from the Political Science and Economics Departments of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The funds will provide stipends for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees, purchase computers needed for trainee research, aid with costs of trainee recruitment and provide part-time secretarial assistance. Institutional commitments will aid in purchase of equipment and in other aspects of the group's efforts. Addressing issues and problems at the interface of political science and of economics, research in positive political economics shows, in general, how observed differences among institutions affect political and economic outcomes in various social, economic, and political systems, and how the institutions themselves change and develop in response to individual and collective beliefs. More rigorous than traditional political science and more concerned with nonmarket institutions than traditional economics, positive political economics focuses on how political and economic institutions constrain, direct and reflect individual behavior in attempting to explain social outcomes such as production, resource allocation and public policy.

该奖项为建立实证政治经济学研究培训小组提供资金。 教职团队由来自哈佛大学政府系、经济系、肯尼迪学院以及麻省理工学院政治学系和经济系的12位杰出政治学家和经济学家组成。 这些资金将为研究生和博士后实习生提供津贴，购买实习生研究所需的计算机，资助实习生招聘费用，并提供兼职秘书协助。 机构承诺将有助于购买设备和该集团其他方面的努力。 实证政治经济学的研究解决了政治学和经济学交界处的问题，总体上表明，观察到的制度之间的差异如何影响各种社会、经济和政治体系中的政治和经济结果，以及制度本身如何变化并根据个人和集体信仰而发展。 实证政治经济学比传统政治学更严谨，比传统经济学更关注非市场制度，它关注政治和经济制度如何限制、指导和反映个人行为，试图解释生产、资源配置和公共政策等社会结果。