Experiments in political science: Contributions and challenges to the discipline

 

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Autore: Alfaro Redondo, Ronald
Natura: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Data di pubblicazione:2015
Descrizione:In this review article I describe the advantages of experimental research in political science and summarize the state-of-the-art in the literature that postulates that their proliferation is mainly because experiments are superior to all other methods in disentangling cause and effect relationships. Experiments have proven to be versatile enough to accommodate into researchers’ preferences, complex research questions and innovative designs. We have witnessed the expansion of methods, the advance in theory testing, and the improvement in establishing causal relationships that experiments have brought to political science. Also, I provide some examples of experiments in the literature that expanded our knowledge. In the last section I offer an overview of the limitations of experimental design.
Stato:Portal de Revistas UCR
Istituzione:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lingua:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/1431
Accesso online:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/ciep/article/view/1431
Keyword:Experiments
Experimental design
Validity
Causality
Generalizability
Experimentos
Diseño e investigación experimental
Validez
Causalidad
Generalización