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We are the leading scholarly society concerned with the research and teaching of political science in Europe, headquartered in the UK with a global membership.
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The programme aims to advance scholarship exhibiting more seamless integration of theoretical model development and empirical evaluation through a highly interactive training programme.
The EITM Summer Institute thoroughly explores the relationship between formal models of politics and empirical research methods. The theoretical models addressed span game theory, spatial theory, public choice theories, agent-based and behavioural economics models as well as general equilibrium models. Empirical methods covered include inferential and Bayesian statistics, experimental and computational methods, and quantitative text analysis.
The EITM Summer Institute is led by distinguished scholars from across the discipline working at the forefront of such empirical-theoretical integration. Each unit surveys its substantive area, stressing key previous theoretical and empirical developments. The instructors explain steps necessary to conduct tests of the models, for example by considering basic-assumption validity or drawing testable conjectures from comparative statics and other deductions from the model. They also offer syllabi for each course early on, teach by using online programming and meet with participants during and after the sessions. The courses discuss appropriate empirical methods for evaluating whether and how data confirm or reject the model. These empirical-modeling considerations could involve specifying test equations with the proper control variables and functional forms, deriving statistical estimators, designing an experiment, or framing a simulation.