Application & Financial Support
I. Institutions and Institutional Analysis
II. Empirical Evaluation of Causality
III. Complexity: Diversity, Networks, Adaptation, and Emergence
IV. Additional Guest Lecturers and Student Presentations
Contact: eitm@umich.edu
The 2006 EITM Summer Institute has concluded. Students interested in EITM are encouraged to consider attending the sixth EITM Summer Institute, which will be held June 24-July 21 2007 at UCLA
The University of
Michigan's
Summer
Institute
on
the
Empirical Implications
of Theoretical
Models
19 June - 14 July , 2006
This summer, 19 June through 14 July 2006, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor will host the fifth 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 through a highly interactive training program 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.
This year's program includes John Aldrich, Arthur Lupia, James Granato, Rebecca Morton, and Scott Page in leading roles. Guests include Jenna Bednar, Daniel Diermeier, James Fowler, Guillermina Jasso, Orit Kedar, Ken Kollman, Walter Mebane, Nolan McCarty, Mary Rigdon and Branislav Slantchev.
The Summer Institute on EITM seeks to train a new generation of scholars who can better link theory and empirical work. It is a highly interactive training program for advanced graduate students and junior faculty led by political scientists from across the discipline who employ EITM in their research. Summer institutes general accept 25 advanced graduate students and junior faculty through a competitive selection process. In most cases, tuition, room and board, travel and living expenses are covered for participants through a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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".
The 2006 EITM V is co-hosted by the Center for Political Studies at the Institute of Social Research and the Department of Political Science, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and led by Robert Franzese.
The Summer Institute is just one aspect of the EITM initiative in political science funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF also funds another, complementary, EITM summer program at Washington University in St. Louis. Participation in either program in no way debars students or faculty from future participation in the other program.
