This summer, June 24 through July 21, 2007, the University of California, Los Angeles will host the sixth 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, Jeffrey Lewis, Ken Schultz, Scott de Marchi, and James Fowler in leading roles. Guests include Dan Posner.
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 2007 EITM VI is hosted by the Department of Political Science, at the University of California, Los Angeles, and led by Kathleen Bawn.
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.