Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A New Era of Experimental Political Science
- Part I Experimental Designs
- Part II Experimental Data
- Part III Experimental Treatments and Measures
- Part IV Experimental Analys is and Presentation
- Part V Experimental Reliability and Generalizability
- Part VI Using Experiments to study Identity
- Part VII Using Experiments to Study Government Actions
- 27 Experiments on and with Street-Level Bureaucrats
- 28 The State of Experimental Research on Corruption Control
- 29 Experiments on Political Activity GovernmentsWant to Keep Hidden
- 30 Experiments in Post-Conflict Contexts
- 31 Experiments on Problems of Climate Change
- 32 A Constant Obsession with Explanation
- Author Index
- Subject Index
32 - A Constant Obsession with Explanation
from Part VII - Using Experiments to Study Government Actions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A New Era of Experimental Political Science
- Part I Experimental Designs
- Part II Experimental Data
- Part III Experimental Treatments and Measures
- Part IV Experimental Analys is and Presentation
- Part V Experimental Reliability and Generalizability
- Part VI Using Experiments to study Identity
- Part VII Using Experiments to Study Government Actions
- 27 Experiments on and with Street-Level Bureaucrats
- 28 The State of Experimental Research on Corruption Control
- 29 Experiments on Political Activity GovernmentsWant to Keep Hidden
- 30 Experiments in Post-Conflict Contexts
- 31 Experiments on Problems of Climate Change
- 32 A Constant Obsession with Explanation
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Ten years since the publication of the first edition of this handbook two things are clear:The world is no less complicated than it was a decade ago and we are better at designing, running, and analyzing experiments today than we were then.In light of these observations, in this chapter I highlight the areas in which political scientists and their collaborators have excelled and how they have done so; but I also point out the challenges –in fact, in some cases, the pure limitations – that remain.Still, the prescription is for more work, more science, and more explanation in the service of reducing the apparent chaos of the interactions between the people and institutions around us.
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- Advances in Experimental Political Science , pp. 616 - 620Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021