TY - BOOK ID - 5488116 TI - Experimental political science and the study of causality AU - Morton, Rebecca B AU - Williams, Kenneth C PY - 2010 SN - 9780521136488 9780521199667 0521136482 0521199662 9780511762888 9780511776786 0511776780 9780511774201 0511774206 0511762887 1107205700 1282771256 9786612771255 0511776020 0511773137 0511775261 PB - Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Political science KW - Thought experiments. KW - Science politique KW - Expériences de pensée KW - Methodology. KW - Research. KW - Méthodologie KW - Recherche KW - #SBIB:32H3 KW - #SBIB:303H13 KW - Experiments, Thought KW - Methodology KW - Politieke wetenschappen: inleidende werken, handboeken, methoden KW - Methoden en technieken: politieke wetenschappen KW - Expériences de pensée KW - Méthodologie KW - Thought experiments KW - Research KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5488116 AB - 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. ER -