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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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.