Experimental Political Science Principles and Practices

by Kittel, Bernhard; Luhan, Wolfgang J.; Morton, Rebecca B.

• ISBN13: 9780230300859
• ISBN10: 0230300855
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

An exploration of core problems in experimental research on voting behavior and political institutions, ranging from design and data analysis to inferences with respect to constructs, constituencies and causal claims. The focus of it is on the implementation of principles in experimental political science and the reflection of actual practices.es.

Author Biography

Bernhard Kittel is Professor of Economic Sociology, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna, Austria. He is interested in collective decision making and comparative political economy. His work appears in Social Choice and Welfare, the European Political Science Review, the European Sociological Review, the Socio-Economic Review, and Work and Occupations. Wolfgang J. Luhan is Assistant Professor and Head of the Experimental Lab (RUBex) at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany. His work has appeared in Experimental Economics and Social Choice and Welfare. Rebecca B. Morton is Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University, USA. She is the author of Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality: From Nature to the Lab (with Kenneth C. Williams, 2010) and Methods and Models: A Guide to the Empirical Analysis of Formal Models in Political Science (1999). Her research has also appeared in leading journals in political science and economics.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Experimental Political Science in Perspective	p. 1
Overview
Voting Behavior and Political Institutions: An Overview of Challenging Questions in Theory and Experimental Research	p. 17
Laboratory Tests of Formal Theory and Behavioral Inferences	p. 54
Voting Mechanism Design: Modeling Institutions in Experiments	p. 72
Experimental Designs
Strategic Voting in the Laboratory	p. 95
Survey Experiments: Partisan Cues in Multi-party Systems	p. 112
Experimental Triangulation of Coalition Signals: Varying Designs, Converging Results	p. 140
Exploring and Analyzing Experimental Data
Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data	p. 163
Experimental Chats: Opening the Black Box of Group Experiments	p. 178
Challenges to Inferences from Experiments
On the Validity of Laboratory Research in the Political and Social Sciences: The Example of Crime and Punishment	p. 209
Gathering Counter-Factual Evidence: An Experimental Study on Voters' Responses to Pre-Electoral Coalitions	p. 233
Using Time in the Laboratory	p. 249
Conclusion
Conclusion: Ways Ahead in Experimental Political Science	p. 263
Appendix: Resources for Experimental Research in the Social Sciences	p. 275
Index	p. 279
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