Experimental political science and the study of causality : from nature to the lab /

"Increasingly, political scientists use the term 'experiment' or 'experimental' to describe their empirical research. One of the primary reasons for doing so is the advantage of experiments in establishing causal inferences. In this book, Rebecca B. Morton and Kenneth C. Wil...

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Autor principal: Morton, Rebecca B., 1954-
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Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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245 1 0 |a Experimental political science and the study of causality :  |b from nature to the lab /  |c Rebecca B. Morton, Kenneth C. Williams. 
260 |a Cambridge ;  |a New York :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 2010. 
300 |a xv, 590 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-569) and indexes. 
505 0 |a I : Introduction. The advent of experimental political science -- -- II : Experimental reasoning about causality. Experiments and causal relations -- The causal inference problem and the Rubin Causal Model -- Controlling observables and unobservables -- Randomization and pseudo-randomization -- Formal theory and causality -- -- III : What makes a good experiment. Validity and experimental manipulations -- Location, artificiality, and related design issues -- Choosing subjects -- Subjects' motivations -- -- IV : Ethics. History of codes of ethics and human subjects research -- Ethical decision making and political science experiments -- Deception in experiments -- -- V : Conclusion. The future of experimental political science -- Appendix : The experimentalist's to do list. 
520 |a "Increasingly, political scientists use the term 'experiment' or 'experimental' to describe their empirical research. One of the primary reasons for doing so is the advantage of experiments in establishing causal inferences. In this book, Rebecca B. Morton and Kenneth C. Williams discuss in detail how experiments and experimental reasoning with observational data can help researchers determine causality. They explore how control and random assignment mechanisms work, examining both the Rubin causal model and the formal theory approaches to causality. They also cover general topics in experimentation such as the history of experimentation in political science; internal and external validity of experimental research; types of experiments - field, laboratory, virtual, and survey - and how to choose, recruit, and motivate subjects in experiments. They investigate ethical issues in experimentation, the process of securing approval from institutional review boards for human subject research, and the use of deception in experimentation"--Provided by publisher. 
650 0 |a Political science  |x Methodology. 
650 0 |a Political science  |x Research. 
650 0 |a Thought experiments. 
650 7 |a Ciencias políticas  |x Metodología.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Ciencias políticas  |x Investigación.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Experimentos mentales.  |2 UDESA 
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