Experimental Political Science: Principles and Practices

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Experimental Political Science in Perspective....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-16
Voting Behavior and Political Institutions: An Overview of Challenging Questions in Theory and Experimental Research....Pages 17-53
Laboratory Tests of Formal Theory and Behavioral Inference....Pages 54-71
Voting Mechanism Design: Modeling Institutions in Experiments....Pages 72-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-94
Strategic Voting in the Laboratory....Pages 95-111
Survey Experiments: Partisan Cues in Multi-party Systems....Pages 112-139
Experimental Triangulation of Coalition Signals: Varying Designs, Converging Results....Pages 140-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-162
Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data....Pages 163-177
Experimental Chats: Opening the Black Box of Group Experiments....Pages 178-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-208
On the Validity of Laboratory Research in the Political and Social Sciences: The Example of Crime and Punishment....Pages 209-232
Gathering Counter-Factual Evidence: An Experimental Study on Voters’ Responses to Pre-Electoral Coalitions....Pages 233-248
Using Time in the Laboratory....Pages 249-260
Front Matter....Pages 261-262
Conclusion: Ways Ahead in Experimental Political Science....Pages 263-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-278