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Program Purpose and Activities
The Program began its first year of operation during the summer of 1998, with the following general purpose:
to support and promote cross-national research and activities of the Comparative Politics faculty and graduate students at Texas A&M University
and functions:
- to provide support for conferences and workshops at A&M;
- to acquire and archive relevant data sets;
- to establish and maintain a working papers' series (made available via the web);
- to publicize activities of the Program and its faculty (including via a web site);
- to encourage and assist Comparative faculty and graduate students in establishing and maintaining contacts abroad (through such activities as facilitating visits by foreign scholars to our department, facilitating international trips by our faculty and students, and sponsoring international conferences/workshops at A&M).
In keeping with that purpose and those functions, the Program has undertaken the following activities:
- a $100 Data Grant entitlement program to aid in the acquisition of data for dissertations of Ph.D. candidates who are majoring in Comparative Politics;
- the Cross-National Data Acquisition Project whose objective is to assist cross-national research through acquisition and archiving of cross-national data sets which are not currently available on the Internet or elsewhere on campus, with some data sets to be made available through the Program's web site(1);
- the Program's working paper series, which will, among other things, make abstracts of the series' papers available through the Program's web site(2); and
- the development of thematic workshops on an annual basis.
1. Coordinator: Alex Pacek
2. Coordinator: Misha Taylor-Robinson
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