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IQSS Faculty Bring Home Awards

By sstockman, July 9 2008

Two members of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science faculty -- IQSS Director Gary King and Faculty Associate Kevin Quinn -- received awards for papers from the Society for Political Methodology last month.

Post-Graduate Fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

By Beverly MacMillen, April 30 2008

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington is accepting applications for the Post-Graduate Fellowship program. The vision of IHME is to make available high-quality information on population health, its determinants, and the performance of health systems for all countries.

Campaign Finance Institute: An opening for an ABD or postdoctoral researcher

By Anonymous, March 13 2008

The Campaign Finance Institute has an immediate opening for an ABD or postdoctoral researcher. The position can either be full or part-time and will last for at least one year, possibly longer dependent upon continued funding of the position.

Call for proposals: PolMeth XXV, The 25th Annual, Silver Edition

By admin, March 7 2008

Summer Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 9 - 13 July 2008 (Core Program: 10-12 July 2008) The 25th Annual, Silver Edition, Summer Methodology Conference will be held 10-12 July 2008, on the campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Two Postdoc Positions Available At MIT

By admin, March 2 2008

Two year positions available as part of research program investigating privacy and data sharing, public health, and the diffusion of innovations within the context of advanced mobile devices. The program will deploy 'smart phones' within medium-sized residential and academic communities, offering users 'next generation' services in return for assessing their use patterns.

IQSS Fellow Earns Prestigious Political Science Award

By sstockman, January 15 2008

Dawn Brancati's question, "Decentralization: Fueling the Fire or Dampening the Flames of Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism?" caught the attention of the attendees at last year's American Political Science Association annual meeting. How can we tell?

Which Voters are Persuadable?

By sstockman, October 15 2007

In a recent New York Times Book Review piece, the writer Jonathan Rauch assessed one of the broad splits in the conservative movement this way: "Libertarians and traditionalists disagree on the relative importance of liberty and virtue; many neocons care not a fig about abortion, while religious conservatives often seem to care about little else." Just so.

The Unintended Consequences of Holding People Accountable

By egehrman, September 15 2007

ampbell's Law has nothing to do with soup. It holds that "the more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."

James Robinson Receives Multiple Honors

By sstockman, August 31 2007

It was a good year for James Robinson. The Harvard Professor of Government and Institute for Quantitative Social Science faculty associate has racked up four major awards over the last several months.

Wiffle-ball Fever Grips IQSS

By sstockman, July 15 2007

Bill Horka dove to his left, smacked the wiffle ball up into the air with his left hand and snatched it as he fell to the ground. Cheers came from both teams as Bill - the Ozzie Smith of Core Services - stood up and brushed himself off. Maybe that was when wiffle-ball fever gripped the IQSS offices.