Experimental political science principles and practices

An exploration of core problems in experimental research on voting behaviour and political institutions, ranging from design and data analysis to inferences with respect to constructs, constituencies and causal claims. The focus of is on the implementation of principles in experimental political sci...

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Other Authors: Kittel, Bernhard (Editor), Luhan, Wolfgang J. (Editor), Morton, Rebecca B. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] Palgrave Macmillan 2012
Series:Research methods series
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Experimental Political Science in Perspective
  • Voting Behavior and Political Institutions: An Overview of Challenging Questions in Theory and Experimental Research
  • Laboratory Tests of Formal Theory and Behavioral Inference
  • Voting Mechanism Design: Modeling Institutions in Experiments
  • Strategic Voting in the Laboratory
  • Survey Experiments: Partisan Cues in Multi-party Systems
  • Experimental Triangulation of Coalition Signals: Varying Designs, Converging Results
  • Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data
  • Experimental Chats: Opening the Black Box of Group Experiments
  • On the Validity of Laboratory Research in the Political and Social Sciences: The Example of Crime and Punishment
  • Gathering Counter-Factual Evidence: An Experimental Study on Voters' Responses to Pre-Electoral Coalitions
  • Using Time in the Laboratory
  • Conclusion: Ways Ahead in Experimental Political Science