Field Experiments and Their Critics
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Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences
Edited by Dawn Langan Teele
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In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive observational collection of information has been challenged by proponents of experimental methods designed to precisely infer causal effects through active intervention in the social world. Some scholars claim that field experiments represent a new gold standard and the best way forward, while others insist that these methods carry inherent inconsistencies, limitations, or ethical dilemmas that observational approaches do not. This unique collection of essays by the most influential figures on every side of this debate reveals its most important stakes and will provide useful guidance to students and scholars in many disciplines.
Dawn Langan Teele is a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Yale University
ISBN: 9780300169409
Publication Date: January 7, 2014
Publication Date: January 7, 2014
280 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
1 b/w illus.
1 b/w illus.
