The Political Science Program and the Methodology, Measurement, and
Statistics Program at the National Science Foundation has
provided funding to support conferences and mentoring activities in
political methodology for September 2014 - August 2016. Part of that
funding includes continuation of the initiative begun in 2010 for
smaller, thematically-focused conferences. This is partly in response
to the larger, more-inclusive format adopted for the Summer Meetings.

This is a call for proposals for a small thematic political
methodology meeting. This conference should involve up to 30
participants and provide opportunities for scientific advancement and
professional mentoring on a scale reminiscent of the original annual
meetings of 25 years ago. These smaller meetings should focus on a
specific topical or methodological theme. For example, past
conferences have focused on Path Dependence and on Causality in
Political Networks. The conference should also provide for 2 days of
presentations with a similar format as the Annual Political
Methodology Meeting of 90 minutes for each paper presentation and
accompanying serious discussion. Possible topics for a thematic
conference might be, for example, new methods in survey research, or
in panel and time-series-cross-section data-analysis, or in
multilevel/hierarchical modeling, or a conference on network and/or
computational methods, on experimental methods, on quantitative
analysis of natural language, on analysis of geospatial data, or on
strategies of causal inference, or any other topic for which a
suitable number of interested researchers can be found. Proposers can
also limit their workshop to a specific substantive theme as long as
there is a significant methodological component to it.

Applications should be sent by email attachment to Kevin Quinn at
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*** The application deadline is September 30, 2014. *** 

Applications should be in PDF format, not more than five pages in
length, describe the general focus of the topic, and provide a list of
individuals who are already doing work on the topic and might be
interested in participating (they do not need to have committed to the
conference), a budget, and a description of institutional support.
Institutional letters confirming this support are not required at this
time but will be prior to formal awarding of the funding. The proposal
should also include a URL for the CV of the proposer and any other
key individuals who have committed to participating.

Selected desiderata include:
* Topics of broad and diverse interest and methodological importance;
* Areas in which innovative, impactful scholarly work is nascent 
 and/or ongoing;
* Organizers with institutional support to cover the bulk of the expenses;
* Diversity in subject matter, format, and locale across these
 thematic conferences

The NSF grant will provide partial travel and lodging support for
participants. The total amount of this support is $14,250. It is expected
that participants would pay for their own travel and lodging when
possible.

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Kevin Quinn
Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
490 Simon #7200
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA  94720-7200
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President 
The Society for Political Methodology
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