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  • 4 - Innovations in Experimental Designs

  • James N. Druckman, Northwestern University, Illinois
  • Book:
    Experimental Thinking
    Published online:
    12 May 2022
    Print publication:
    12 May 2022, pp 85-116

  • Summary

    Chapter 4 turns to experimental designs, focusing on three designs that have gained prominence in many social science applications in the last decade: audit field experiments, conjoint survey experiments, and lab-in-the-field experiments. These three designs also provide readers with examples of a type of field experiment, survey experiment, and lab experiment, respectively – the three conventional “types” of experiments employed in the social sciences. The chapter reviews the basics of each design and provides prominent examples. Importantly, it also discusses limitations and challenges of the designs, or put another way, how to think about these new designs. This chapter includes a brief overview of “public policy experiments”: It does so given the recent rise in studies of political elites, which ultimately connect to policymaking and responsiveness. The chapter makes clear that the substantive questions being explored should drive experimental design choices and not vice versa.