Field Experiments in Comparative Politics and Policy

by Donald P. Green

• ISBN13: 9781412987257
• ISBN10: 1412987253
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-02
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

Standing on the methodological frontier of field experimentation, researchers studying politics face a unique set of challenges. How do field researchers interact with policymakers, public officials, and funding agencies? How do they ensure high standards in the generation and reporting of empirical results? How can they redefine the role that experimental methodology plays in the study of politics today? This volume of The ANNALS addresses these questions, examining the use and application of the field experiment method in political science and presenting the state of the art in this important field.This important volume of The ANNALS features provocative and insightful contributions that reflect the ways that field researchers, in an international context, use the method in novel ways and tackle more subtle challenges of design and analysis. This volume is a must-read for researchers of politics and policy ' especially those ready to expand the substantive and methodological frontiers of field experimentation. It is also a valuable resource for political scholars and policymakers.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Parable of two agencies, one of which randomises

Democracy, Governance, and Randomized Development Assistance

Translating experiments into Policy

The Promising Integration of Qualitative Methods and Field Experiments

The Future of Field Experiments in International Relations

Why can't a Student be more like an Average Person? Sampling and Attrition Effects in Social Science Field and Laboratory Experiments

Points of intersection between randomized experiments and quasi-experiments

Reporting methodological items in randomised experiments in political science

Theory, external validity and experimental inference: Some conjectures

Expanding the use of experiments on civic behavior: experiments with local government as research partners

Help Me Help You: Conducting Field Experiments With Political Elites

Conceptual, design, and statistical complications associated with participant preference

Strategies for Dealing with the Problem of Non-overlapping Units of Assignment and Outcome Measurement in Field Experiments

Enough Already about "Black Box" Experiments: Studying Mediation is More Difficult than Most Scholars Suppose

Correction to Arceneaux (2005)

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