Experimental political science: principles and practices

Experimental political science is a rapidly expanding field. This book provides an in-depth discussion of the core challenges in experimental research, written by experienced experimentalists. The common theme running through and linking the chapters is the application of experimental research in the twin fields of voting behaviour and political institutions. Topics covered include the implications of design choices on theory testing capacities and pre-implementation examination of political mechanisms, laboratory and survey experiments, the application of triangulation designs using different experimental methods, potentials of data analysis using both quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as inferences with respect to constructs, constituencies, and causal claims, in particular in the context of repeated play. The main emphasis of thisbook is on the implementation of principles in experimental political scienceand the reflection of actual practices. INDICE: Introduction: Experimental Political Science in Perspective;. B.Kittel. & .R.B.Morton.PART I: OVERVIEW .Voting Behaviour and Political Institutions: An Overview of Challenging Questions in Theory and in Experimental Research; .B.Kittel. & .K.Marcinkiewicz.Laboratory Tests of Formal Theory and Behavioral Inferences; .J.Woon.Voting Mechanism Design: Modeling Institutionsin Experiments; .J.Großer.PART II: EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS .Strategic Voting in the Laboratory; .N.Sauger., .A.Blais., .J-F Laslier. & .K.van der Straeten.Survey Experiments: Partisan Cues in Multiparty Systems; .T.A.Brader. & .J.A.Tucker.Experimental 'Triangulation': Varying Designs, Converging Results;. M.F.Meffert. &.T.Gschwend.PART III: EXPLORING AND ANALYZING EXPERIMENTAL DATA .Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data; .S.Shikano., .T.BrÃñuninger. & .M.Stoffel.Experimental Chats: Opening the Black Box of Group Experiments; .T.Kalwitzki., .B.Kittel. & .W.J.Luhan.PART IV: CHALLENGES TO INFERENCES FROM EXPERIMENTS .On theValidity of Laboratory Research in the Political and Social Sciences; .H.Rauhut. & .F.Winter.Gathering Counter-Factual Evidence: An Experimental Study on Voters' Responses to Pre-Electoral Coalitions;. M.Hooghe., .S.Marien. & .T.Gschwend.Using Time in the Laboratory; .R.B.Morton.PART V: CONCLUSION .Conclusion:Ways Ahead in Experimental Political Science;. B.Kittel. & .W.J.Luhan.Appendix: Resources for Experimental Research in the Social Sciences; .J.Keller., .B.Kittel. & .W.J.Luhan.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-30085-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
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• Fecha Publicación: 18/05/2012
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