EITM Summer Training Institute(Political Science Program: EITM Competition IIIa)

EITM暑期培训学院（政治学项目：EITM竞赛IIIa）

• 批准号: 0215621
• 负责人: James Alt
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-05-01 至 2008-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0215621&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EITM; Summer; Training; Institute; Political

The scientific study of politics requires empirical testing of theoretical models, but theories are often produced without adequate testing and empirical work too frequently uses sketchy and oversimplified theory. Gaps have appeared between theory and empirical method, and these gaps impair scientific progress. To ameliorate this scholars need to train a new generation of scholars who can better link theory and empirical work. The Principal Investigators will to foster this intellectual development by offering younger scholars an opportunity to learn by seeing and doing in conjunction with older scholars who have been leaders in advancing theory and empirical work, focusing on substantive areas where appreciable research integrating theory and methods already exists. A successful Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) summer program, given the current relative infancy of this approach to social science, must as much develop as disseminate substance. Thus the key regarding training is that each institute include 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. The Principal Investigators have activities transcending passive receipt of lecture material, involving also significant opportunities to advance participants' own research by employing their newly gained knowledge about the integration of theory and method. The investigators foster integrated training by providing, in each of the four years from 2002-2005, in four locations (respectively Harvard, Michigan, Duke, and UC-Berkeley), a four-week summer program. Each of these institutes accommodates up to 25 advanced graduate students and junior faculty. The program is selective and admission is based significantly on the quality and potential of research presented. A team of up to 15 research faculty conducts each institute in a framework detailed below. The investigators take a broad view of the theoretical models and empirical methods used to evaluate and test implications. Formal models on which instruction will build include game theory, differential equation dynamic models, and simple decision theory and more complicated behavioral decision-making models. The empirical toolkit should cover not only statistical inference but also focused analytically-based case studies, and experimental methods. Computational models have both theoretical and empirical relevance in the program. Six areas are outlined that have sufficiently matured in combining micro-oriented, institutionally rich theory with rigorous structural estimation to offer fruitful possibilities for integrated instruction. The six areas, with examples of integrated research and teaching outlines, cover spatial models, institutional analysis, macropolitical economy, bargaining and coalitions, international security, and international political economy. The researchers include three such areas each year, and guarantee that there will be at least one repeat for cumulation and development and at least one new module each year. Using multiple hosts capitalizes on diverse, regionally available deep pools of talent unavailable in any single location. It offers regional balance in accessibility and fosters outreach to other departments in several locales. The four have complementary strengths in computational models, experimentation, and macro- and international political economy.

政治学的科学研究需要对理论模型进行实证检验，但理论的产生往往没有经过充分的检验，实证工作也经常使用粗略和过于简单化的理论。理论和经验方法之间出现了差距，这些差距阻碍了科学进步。为了改善这种情况，学者们需要培养能够更好地将理论和实证工作联系起来的新一代学者。首席研究员将为年轻学者提供一个与年长学者一起边看边做的机会来促进这种智力发展，这些学者一直是推进理论和实证工作的领导者，重点关注已经存在的理论和方法相结合的可观研究的实质性领域。鉴于这种社会科学方法目前还处于起步阶段，一个成功的理论模型实证意义（EITM）夏季项目必须在传播实质内容的同时不断发展。因此，培训的关键在于，每个机构都包含重要的教学和研究部分，为学生提供与任何单个机构相比更广泛、更深入的 EITM 导师的高度个性化互动。首席研究员的活动超越了被动接收讲座材料的范围，还涉及通过利用新获得的有关理论和方法整合的知识来推进参与者自己的研究的重要机会。研究人员在 2002 年至 2005 年的四年中，每年在四个地点（分别是哈佛大学、密歇根州、杜克大学和加州大学伯克利分校）提供为期四周的夏季项目，以促进综合培训。每个学院最多可容纳 25 名高级研究生和初级教师。该项目是选择性的，录取很大程度上取决于所提出的研究的质量和潜力。每个研究所均由最多 15 名研究人员组成的团队按照下述框架进行管理。研究人员对用于评估和测试影响的理论模型和实证方法进行了广泛的研究。教学所依据的正式模型包括博弈论、微分方程动态模型、简单决策理论和更复杂的行为决策模型。实证工具包不仅应涵盖统计推断，还应涵盖基于分析的案例研究和实验方法。计算模型在该程序中具有理论和经验相关性。概述了六个领域，这些领域在将微观导向的、制度丰富的理论与严格的结构评估相结合方面已经足够成熟，为综合教学提供了富有成效的可能性。这六个领域包括空间模型、制度分析、宏观政治经济、讨价还价与联盟、国际安全和国际政治经济学，并附有综合研究和教学大纲的例子。研究人员每年都会纳入三个这样的领域，并保证每年至少有一个重复的积累和发展，以及至少一个新的模块。使用多个主机可以利用任何单一地点都无法获得的多样化、区域性的深度人才库。它提供了可访问性的区域平衡，并促进了与多个地区其他部门的联系。四者在计算模型、实验以及宏观和国际政治经济方面具有互补的优势。