Summer Workshop on Quantitative Methods in Political Science
Summer Workshop on Quantitative Methods in Political Science
Lokniti ? Programme for Comparative Democracy, Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, in collaboration
with Jain University, Bengaluru, invites applications for the Summer
Workshop on 'Analyzing Quantitative Data on Indian
Politics' to be held in Bengaluru from Thursday, 10th May 2012 to
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012.
This is the sixth Summer School being organized by Lokniti-CSDS. Some
of the leading scholars working on empirical methods
in Political Science have been involved in designing this summer
school. In this Summer School there will be a special emphasis
on making sense of quantitative data on Indian politics. We plan to
bring together a group of political scientists with the aim of
providing them an opportunity to improve their skills in quantitative
analysis. The selected participants will be given a set of
readings before they come to attend the workshop and will be expected
to attend lectures and practical data analysis sessions.
Pradeep Chhibber (University of California at Berkeley) Irfan
Nooruddin (Ohio State University) and Yogendra Yadav (CSDS) will
be the main resource persons for the workshop while other resource
persons will include Siddharth Swaminathan (ISEC, Bengaluru),
Divya Vaid (CSDS), Sandeep Shastri (Jain University), Sanjay Kumar
(CSDS) and Suhas Palshikar (University of Pune).
We invite the following categories of candidates to apply for this
workshop (preference will be given to young researchers):
a. Teachers of Political Science in colleges and Universities who are
working on empirical subjects and would benefit from
further training.
b. Research students of Political Science who are working on empirical
themes for their M.Phil. or Ph.D. dissertations and
can benefit from further training.
c. Any other person (including those from outside Political Science
and outside academia) who are interested in making sense of
politics by analyzing quantitative data.
Please send your detailed CV with a statement of research interest
(those already registered for M.Phil. or Ph.D. should clearly
mention the topic of dissertation along with a brief summary of the
objectives and methodologies used) in about 500 words.
Applicants should also visit our website
http://www.lokniti.org/index.htm; access the questionnaire used for
National Election
Study 2009 and write a 500 word Note on a research question that
interests them; based on this questionnaire. Selection for
the workshop will be made on the basis of these two write-ups
submitted by candidates. The last date for receiving the
application is Saturday 17th March 2012.
Please note that this is a full time residential training course and
candidates admitted to the workshop are expected to stay
at the Institute and engage in full time work on all days during this period.
Apart from taking care of the accommodation and food for all the
participants for the entire duration of the workshop, participants
will be reimbursed their travel expenses from their place of residence
to Bengaluru and back (Train AC III or its equivalent).
Please send your applications by email to [email protected] or by
snail mail to:
Director, Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
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