Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science

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

James N. Druckman (Edited by), Donald P. Greene (Edited by), James H. Kuklinski (Edited by), Arthur Lupia (Edited by)

9780521192125, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 June 2011

578 pages, 36 b/w illus. 12 tables
25.4 x 17.8 x 3.2 cm, 1.16 kg

'In the Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science, Druckman, Green, Kuklinski, and Lupia put together thirty-six contributed chapters covering the design, scope, and methods of experimental political science. They have taken on the core issues, such as the trade-offs between internal and external validity. They explore the value of laboratory versus field versus survey experiments. The chapters here show how political science draws from other experimental fields, creating its own broadly unique approach to experimentation. The authors of the chapters here explore the ways in which experiments drawn from the traditions of cognitive science, psychology, and economics take some things for granted and how experiments in each of these traditions assume different things to be consequential. This book should be used in every first-year graduate curriculum, not just as a book on experiments, but as an excellent primer on research design.' Mathew D. McCubbins, University of Southern California

Laboratory experiments, survey experiments and field experiments occupy a central and growing place in the discipline of political science. The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science is the first text to provide a comprehensive overview of how experimental research is transforming the field. Some chapters explain and define core concepts in experimental design and analysis. Other chapters provide an intellectual history of the experimental movement. Throughout the book, leading scholars review groundbreaking research and explain, in personal terms, the growing influence of experimental political science. The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science provides a collection of insights that can be found nowhere else. Its topics are of interest not just to researchers who are conducting experiments today, but also to researchers who think that experiments can help them make new and important discoveries in political science and beyond.

1. Experimentation in political science James N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, James H. Kuklinski and Arthur Lupia
Part I. Designing Experiments: 2. Experiments: an introduction to core concepts James N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, James H. Kuklinski and Arthur Lupia
3. Internal and external validity Rose McDermott
4. Students as experimental participants: a defense of the 'narrow data base' James N. Druckman and Cindy D. Kam
5. Economics vs. psychology experiments: stylization, incentives, and deception Eric S. Dickson
Part II. The Development of Experiments in Political Science: 6. Laboratory experiments in political science Shanto Iyengar
7. Experiments and game theory's value to political science John H. Aldrich and Arthur Lupia
8. The logic and design of the survey experiment: an autobiography of a methodological innovation Paul M. Sniderman
9. Field experiments in political science Alan S. Gerber
Part III. Decision Making: 10. Attitude change experiments in political science Allyson L. Holbrook
11. Conscious and unconscious information processing with implications for experimental political science Milton Lodge, Charles Taber and Brad Verhulst
12. Political knowledge Cheryl Boudreau and Arthur Lupia
Part IV. Vote Choice, Candidate Evaluations, and Turnout: 13. Candidate impressions and evaluations Kathleen M. McGraw
14. Media and politics Thomas E. Nelson, Sarah M. Bryner and Dustin M. Carnahan
15. Candidate advertisements Shana Kushner Gadarian and Richard R. Lau
16. Voter mobilization Melissa R. Michelson and David W. Nickerson
Part V. Interpersonal Relations: 17. Trust and social exchange Rick K. Wilson and Catherine C. Eckel
18. An experimental approach to citizen deliberation Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg
19. Social networks and political context David W. Nickerson
Part VI. Identity, Ethnicity, and Politics: 20. Candidate gender and experimental political science Kathleen Dolan and Kira Sanbonmatsu
21. Racial identity and experimental methodology Darren Davis
22. The determinants and political consequences of prejudice Vincent L. Hutchings and Spencer Piston
23. Politics from the perspective of minority populations Dennis Chong and Jane Junn
Part VII. Institutions and Behavior: 24. Experimental contributions to collective-action theory Eric Coleman and Elinor Ostrom
25. Legislative voting and cycling Gary Miller
26. Electoral systems and strategic voting (laboratory election experiments) Rebecca B. Morton and Kenneth C. Williams
27. Experimental research on democracy and development Ana L. De La O and Leonard Wantchekon
Part VIII. Elite Bargaining: 28. Coalition experiments Daniel Diermeier
29. Negotiation and mediation Daniel Druckman
30. The experiment and foreign policy decision making Margaret G. Hermann and Binnur Ozkececi-Taner
Part IX. Advanced Experimental Methods: 31. Treatment effects Brian J. Gaines and James H. Kuklinski
32. Making effects manifest in randomized experiments Jake Bowers
33. Design and analysis of experiments in multilevel populations Betsy Sinclair
34. Analyzing the downstream effects of randomized experiments Rachel Milstein Sondheimer
35. Mediation analysis is harder than it looks John G. Bullock and Shang E. Ha
Afterword: 36. Campbell's ghost Donald R. Kinder.

Subject Areas: Political science & theory [JPA], Politics & government [JP], Research methods: general [GPS]