Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science

by Edited by James N. Druckman , Donald P. Green , James H. Kuklinski , Arthur Lupia

• ISBN13: 9780521174558
• ISBN10: 0521174554
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of how political scientists have used experiments to transform their field of study.

Author Biography

James N. Druckman is Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Donald P. Green is A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science at Yale University. James H. Kuklinski is Matthew T. McClure Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Arthur Lupia is Hal R. Varian Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. viii
List of Figures	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction
Experimentation in Political Science	p. 3
Designing Experiments
Experiments: An Introduction to Core Concepts	p. 15
Internal and External Validity	p. 27
Students as Experimental Participants: A Defense of the "Narrow Data Base	p. 41
Economics versus Psychology Experiments: Stylization, Incentives, and Deception	p. 58
The Development of Experiments in Political Science
Laboratory Experiments in Political Science	p. 73
Experiments and Game Theory's Value to Political Science	p. 89
The Logic and Design of the Survey Experiment: An Autobiography of a Methodological Innovation	p. 102
Field Experiments in Political Science	p. 115
Decision Making
Attirude Change Experiments in Political Science	p. 141
Conscious and Unconscious Information Processing with Implications for Experimental Political Science	p. 155
Political Knowledge	p. 171
Vote Choice, Candidate Evaluations, And Turnout
Candidate Impressions and Evaluations	p. 187
Media and Politics	p. 201
Candidate Advertisements	p. 214
Voter Mobilization	p. 228
Interpersonal Relations
Trust and Social Exchange	p. 243
An Experimental Approach to Citize n Deliberation	p. 258
Social Networks and Political Context	p. 273
Identity, Ethnicity, And Politics
Candidate Gender and Experimental Political Science	p. 289
Racial Identity and Experimental Methodology	p. 299
The Determinants and Political Consequences of Prejudice	p. 306
Politics from the Perspective of Minority Populations	p. 320
Institutions And Behavior
Experimental Contributions to Collective Action Theory	p. 339
Legislative Voting and Cycling	p. 353
Electoral Systems and Strategic Voting (Laboratory Election Experiments)	p. 369
Experimental Research on Democracy and Development	p. 384
Elite Bargaining
Coalition Experiments	p. 399
Negotiation and Mediation	p. 413
The Experiment and Foreign Policy Decision Making	p. 430
Advanced Experimental Methods
Treatment Effects	p. 445
Making Effects Manifest in Randomized Experiments	p. 459
Design and Analysis of Experiments in Multilevel Populations	p. 481
Analyzing the Downstream Effects of Randomized Experiments	p. 494
Mediation Analysis Is Harder than It Looks	p. 508
Afterword
Campbell's Ghost	p. 525
Name Index	p. 531
Subject Index	p. 548
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