EITM-OSLO Summer Institute 2024

University of Oslo and EITM Europe are inviting PhD-students and junior faculty to our 2024 Summer Institute "The Foundations of Representative Democracy and its Challenges".

The Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute is a training program, developed in the United States for graduate students and junior faculty, on the development and application of research designs that integrate theoretical models with empirical research with the purpose of advancing our understanding of politics. The EITM Europe is a similar program, based in Europe and directed by Thomas König of the University of Mannheim, Germany.

In 2024 the research group on Comparative Institutions and Regimes at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo have the pleasure of inviting EITM Europe to Oslo for the third iteration of EITM-OSLO. The EITM-OSLO is chaired by Bjørn Høyland. 

The Summer Institute will consist of theoretical and methodological foundations in the first week, followed by a week applying these tools and techniques to the study of representative democracy.

The workload is equivalent to 10 ETS credits for those that submit a research paper of 6000 - 10,000 words using the tools and techniques of the summer school. For those participating without submitting a research paper the workload is equivalent to 5 ETS credits.