Reminder: EITM Summer Institute @ UMich applications due in 12 days.
Updated info on the call (additional guest-lecturers confirmed) below
and on the EITM web page.
Please forward the call for applications to likely interested grad
students & faculty who may not be members of these lists (Political
Economy section of APSA and Political Methodology listserve).
Thanks,
Rob
The Harvard-Michigan-Duke-Berkeley
Summer Institute on the
Empirical Implications
of Theoretical Models
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
19 June - 14 July 2006
http://www.isr.umich.edu/cps/eitm/eitm2006/index.html
APPLICATIONS DUE 27 FEBRUARY 2006
Introduction:
This summer, 19 June through 14 July 2006, the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor <http://www.umich.edu/> will host the fifth
Harvard-Michigan-Duke-Berkeley summer institute on EITM: Empirical
Implications of Theoretical Models. Funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF), this program aims to advance scholarship exhibiting
more-seamless integration of theoretical model development and empirical
evaluation and to train a new generation of scholars in integrating
theoretical models more closely, effectively, and productively with
empirical evaluation of those models. The summer institutes are highly
interactive training programs for advanced graduate students and junior
faculty, and led by numerous scholars from across the discipline working
at the forefront of such empirical-theoretical integration.
Application & Financial Support: The application deadline is February
27, 2006
We welcome applications from advanced graduate students who have passed
all qualifying exams, preferably with a completed dissertation
prospectus or plan but not yet at writing-up stages. Graduate students
who will benefit most from the program should be committed to using both
theoretical models and empirical data in their dissertations. They
should have some training in both formal methodology and quantitative
analysis, and advanced training in at least one of these areas. We will
also accept junior faculty looking to improve their defended
dissertation in a direction that incorporates EITM, or junior professors
that are embarking on a second "EITM-like" project. We will base
admission substantially on the quality and potential of research
proposed in the application. These are descriptions of ideal applicants;
interested students or junior faculty should not refrain from applying
due to some perceived shortfall on any of these dimensions. We intend to
accept about 25 participants. Successful applicants will be notified (by
e-mail) by March 10th, 2006.
Complete applications consist of the following four components:
(1) Curriculum Vita with name and contact information, current location
and position. If you are a student, the CV should indicate your current
status in graduate school (e.g., whether you've passed exams and
defended a dissertation proposal).
(2) Description of your EITM research proposal (5-10 pages). We will
base admission substantially on the quality and potential of this
proposal -- particularly its integration of theoretical modeling and
empirical testing.
(3) Brief (1-2 page) statement of interest and purpose in applying for
the summer program
(4) Two letters of recommendation emailed directly by their writers to
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heading
Please submit application materials, including the two letters of
recommendation, which should be sent separately, as PDF attachments or
MS-WORD via e-mail to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
Financial support includes a stipend for travel and living expense
(round-trip airfare and dormitory housing, as necessary, plus a modest
allowance for meals and incidentals). This financial support will be
provided for U.S. participants and for foreign students studying at U.S.
institutions. Foreign-resident foreign-applicants should seek support
from other sources; we may be able to subsidize their expenses up to a
similar cost as that for domestic-resident participants but cannot
guarantee such availability.
Content of the 2006 EITM Summer Institute:
EITM Summer Institutes organize themselves into 3 week-long modules of
substantive and methodological focus, followed by a fourth week focused
on student projects. This year's EITM V program and faculty (as so-far
committed) are:
WEEK ONE (June 19-June 23): Institutions and Institutional Analysis
<http://www.isr.umich.edu/cps/eitm/eitm2006/institutions2006.html>
Leads: John Aldrich <http://www.duke.edu/~aldrich/> (Duke) & Arthur
Lupia <http://www.umich.edu/~lupia> (Michigan)
Guests: Orit Kedar <http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/faculty/okedar.html>
(Michigan) & Nolan McCarty <http://www.princeton.edu/~nmccarty/>
(Princeton)
This unit explores Empirical Implications of Institutional Models. It
traces the origins, successful development, and potentially problematic
aspects of the New Institutionalism literature, combining lectures and
innovative class activities to understand modern studies of the causes
and consequences of institutional choices. Activities use examples of
bureaucratic performance and voter competence (plus Congressional
organization, election laws, separation of powers, coalition bargaining,
jury decision-making, political development, etc.). The week also
addresses (a) some constructive debates on the appropriateness to
political contexts of the modern proliferation of equilibrium concepts
and statistical-estimation procedures, (b) how incomplete information
affects institutional efficacy, and (c) innovative data-collection
methods. Past work teaches critical lessons, but this week aims to
improve the scientific and social value of new research, helping to
shape the new new institutionalism.
WEEK TWO (June 26-June 30): Empirical Evaluation of Causality
<http://www.isr.umich.edu/cps/eitm/eitm2006/causality2006.html>
Leads: James Granato
<http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/government/faculty/profiles/Granato/Ja
mes/> (The University of Texas, Austin) & Rebecca Morton
<http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/morton/morton_home.html>
(New York University)
Guests: Guillermina Jasso
<http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/object/guillerminajasso.html> (New York
University), Mary Rigdon <http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mrigdon/>
(Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan) and Daniel
Diermeier
<http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/diermeier/personal/>
(Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
This unit focuses on exploring various methodological strategies for
identifying and gaining empirical leverage on causality/causal
relations. We will explore strategies ranging from strong imposition of
theoretical structure on empirical estimation of well-specified systems
(a.k.a., structural modeling) to experimentation (lab, field, and
survey) and perhaps relatives (like matching methods).
WEEK THREE (July 3, July 5-July 8): Complexity: Diversity, Networks,
Adaptation, and Emergence
<http://www.isr.umich.edu/cps/eitm/eitm2006/complexity2006.html>
Lead: Scott Page <http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/faculty/spage.html>
(Michigan)
Guests: TBA
We'll begin by describing complexity loosely and then formally. We'll
discuss its relation to equilibrium analysis. We'll also provide a
practical, quick, effective hands-on introduction to using computational
methods. Then, with the help of a series of guests, we will explore how
complexity and agent-based approaches are expanding research
possibility-frontiers in four topical areas: connectedness & networks
analysis (e.g., in judicial politics), adaptation & learning (e.g., in
party formation and competition), externalities & complexity (e.g., in
public-policymaking), and diversity & heterogeneity (e.g., in cultural
and in ethnic-conflict studies).
WEEK FOUR (July 10-July 14): Additional Guests (TBA), Student
Interactions and Presentations
EITM V <http://www.isr.umich.edu/cps/eitm/eitm2006/index.html> , 2006 is
co-hosted by the Center for Political Studies
<http://www.isr.umich.edu/cps/> at the Institute of Social Research
<http://www.isr.umich.edu/> and the Department of Political Science
<http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/> , the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
<http://www.umich.edu> , and led by Robert Franzese
<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~franzese> .
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4256)
Assoc. Prof. Political Science P.O. Box
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The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
48106-1248
Research Assoc. Prof. TeleComm:
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~franzese
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