@article {47551,
	title = {Restructuring the Social Sciences: Reflections from Harvard{\textquoteright}s Institute for Quantitative Social Science},
	journal = {PS: Political Science and Politics},
	volume = {47},
	number = {1},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {165-172},
	abstract = {The social sciences are undergoing a dramatic transformation from studying problems to solving them; from making do with a small number of sparse data sets to analyzing increasing quantities of diverse, highly informative data; from isolated scholars toiling away on their own to larger scale, collaborative, interdisciplinary, lab-style research teams; and from a purely academic pursuit to having a major impact on the world. To facilitate these important developments, universities, funding agencies, and governments need to shore up and adapt the infrastructure that supports social science research. We discuss some of these developments here, as well as a new type of organization we created at Harvard to help encourage them -- the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. \&nbsp;An increasing number of universities are beginning efforts to respond with similar institutions. This paper provides some suggestions for how individual universities might respond and how we might work together to advance social science more generally.
},
	url = {http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A9100Nlq},
	author = {Gary King}
}
