Title       : Political Science Program: EITM Competition IIIa: Empirical Implications of
               Theoretical Models Summer Institute
Type        : Award
NSF Org     : SES 
Latest
Amendment
Date        : May 16,  2004       
File        : a0215573

Award Number: 0215573
Award Instr.: Continuing grant                             
Prgm Manager: James S. Granato                        
	      SES  DIVN OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES    
	      SBE  DIRECT FOR SOCIAL, BEHAV & ECONOMIC SCIE
Start Date  : July 1,  2002       
Expires     : June 30,  2006       (Estimated)
Expected
Total Amt.  : $591292             (Estimated)
Investigator: Steven S. Smith smith@wc.wustl.edu  (Principal Investigator current)
Sponsor     : Washington University
	      
	      St. Louis, MO  63130    314/889-5100

NSF Program : 1371      POLITICAL SCIENCE
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Program Ref : 0000,OTHR,
Abstract    :

     Beginning in the summer of 2003, four training institutes (2003-2006) on
     the campus of Washington University in St. Louis will be offered to bridge the
     divide between formal and empirical analysis.  The goal is to advance the study
     of methods and models and to expand the research community with cutting-edge
     expertise.  Each NSF EITM Summer Institutes is comprised of four one-week
     seminars --- a basic seminar and three advanced seminars. The instructors and
     the subjects addressed in the advanced seminars rotate over the four-year
     period of the program.  All seminars are held in the conference rooms of the
     Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy and the
     departments of political science and economics. Each advanced seminar concerns
     the relationship between formal models of politics and empirical research
     methods in a substantive field of political science or political economy. The
     formal models addressed span game theory, spatial theory, social and public
     choice theories, general equilibrium models, adaptive learning models,
     behavioral economic models, and hybrid approaches such as agent-based modeling.
      Empirical methods include basic and advanced econometric techniques and
     spatial models. Students attending the NSF EITM Summer Institute also may
     attend seminars in the summer program of the Center for New Institutional
     Social Science that will have a complementary schedule. The faculty for the
     seminars is drawn from Washington University faculty and from faculty from
     several other universities. The Washington University faculty participating in
     the NSF EITM Summer Institute include Randall Calvert, John Carey, Lee Epstein,
     Andrew Martin, Gary Miller, Norman Schofield, Itai Sened, and Steven Smith. The
     non-Washington University faculty instructors include Charles Cameron, Keith
     Krehbiel, Kevin Quinn, Thomas Palfrey, and Rick Wilson. Seminar guests include
     Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Eric Brown, John Ferejohn, Simon Jackman, Rebecca
     Morton, Keith Poole, and Kenneth Shepsle.  25 student participants will be
     recruited on a competitive basis.  Students will be offered on-campus housing
     and will be provided travel and lodging subsidies.  An EITM committee comprised
     of Washington University faculty will administer the program.