January 21, 2013 - February 8, 2013
University of São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
Building on the success of the first three editions of the IPSA Summer School, which was first presented at the University of São Paulo in 2010, the Fourth Annual IPSA Summer School was held from January 21 to February 8 at the University of São Paulo.
The Summer School is a cooperative partnership between the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and the University of São Paulo’s Department of Political Science and Institute of International Relations. For its fourth season, the Summer School welcomed a total of 126 students from 42 institutions in 14 countries, with women accounting for 40% of the student body.
Courses were offered in a variety of quantitative and qualitative fields:
- Comparative Research Designs and Comparative Methods (Professor Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Philipps University Marburg)
- Knowing and the Known: Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences (Prof. Patrick Jackson, American University)
- Quantitative Methods for Public Policy Analysis (Prof. Bruno Cautrès, Sciences Po, Paris)
- Game Theory and Applications for Political Science (Prof. Peter Rosendorff, New York University)
- Quantitative Textual Analysis (QTA) (Prof. Iñaki Sagarzazu, Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
- Time Series and Pooled Time Series Analyses (Prof. Guy Whitten, Texas A&M University)
- Case Study Methodology – Small-n Research Designs (Prof. Derek Beach, University of Aarhus, Denmark)
- Communications and Applied Research for Political and Policy Stakeholders (Prof. Clifford Young, IPSOS-Washington)
- Voting in Legislatures: From Theory to Data Analysis (Prof. Simon Jackman, Stanford University)
- Refresher Course in Mathematics and Statistics (Prof. Lorena G. Barberia and Glauco Peres da Silva, University of São Paulo)
Students were also invited to participate in four lunch-hour information sessions titled (respectively) “Writing Effectively About Scientific Research”; “Academic Careers in Political Science and International Relations in Brazil: Reflections on the Discipline”; “Graduate Studies Abroad”; and “Publication Strategies.” Four seminars were also promoted in conjunction with the Summer School: “The Epistemological Foundations of the Social Sciences”; “New Developments in Data Collection and Dissemination for Brazil”; “The Fundamentals of Doing Political Science Research: Recent Books in Methods for Political Sciences”; and “The Cases of the most Recent US and French elections”.
Institutional Partners:
The Summer School is a partnership between the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the Department of Political Science (DCP), the Institute for International Relations (IRI) at the University of São Paulo and the Brazilian Association of Political Science (ABCP).
Generous support for the 2010, 2011 and 2012 Summer Schools was provided by the IPSA, by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), by the University of São Paulo, by FAPESP and by the Centro de Estudos da Metrópole (CEM).
Summer School Faculty
Coordinating Faculty
Prof. Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Executive Director
Prof. Eduardo Marques, Local Organization Committe, Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo
Prof. Leandro Piquet Carneiro, Local Organization Committee, Institute for International Relations, University of São Paulo
Prof. Lorena Barberia, Local Organization Committe, Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo
Prof. Daniela Schetini, Local Organization Committee, Institute for International Relations, University of São Paulo
Faculty Instructors
Prof. Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
Prof. Derek Beach, Universtity of Aarhus, Denmark
Prof. Bruno Cautrès, Sciences Po, Paris
Prof. Simon Jackman, Stanford University, USA
Prof. Patrick Jackson, American University
Prof. Peter Rosendorff, New York University
Prof. Iñaki Sagarzazu, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK
Prof. Guy Whitten, Texas A&M University, USA
Prof. Clifford Young, IPSOS-Washington
Profs. Lorena Barberia and Glauco Peres da Silva, University of São Paulo