Research Transparency and Data Archiving for Experiments

Although still more common in medical studies and some other areas of social science such as psychology and behavioral economics, experimental work has become an increasingly important methodology in political science. Experimental work differs from other kinds of research because it systematically...

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Published inPS, political science & politics Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 67 - 71
Main Author McDermott, Rose
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.01.2014
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Academic Achievement
Archives & records
Archiving
Best Practices
Charts
Check Lists
Control Groups
Data archiving
Data warehouses
Economic research
Experimentalism
Experimentation
Experiments
Flow Charts
Inference
Information sharing
Information storage
Intervention
Manipulation
Observation
Observational research
Political Science
Psychology
Qualitative Research
Reporting standards
Research Design
Research methods
Researchers
Resistance (Psychology)
Social Sciences
Statistical Analysis
Symposium: Openness in Political Science
SYMPOSIUM: Openness in Political Science: Data Access and Research Transparency
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Summary:Although still more common in medical studies and some other areas of social science such as psychology and behavioral economics, experimental work has become an increasingly important methodology in political science. Experimental work differs from other kinds of research because it systematically administers a specific treatment to part of a population while withholding that manipulation from the rest of a subject pool. The best studies strive to keep all other aspects of the experiment similar, so that any emergent difference between the treatment and control group that emerge provide unparalleled traction in determining causal inference. Many other valuable forms of social research use observation of the natural world, rather than depending on intervention to advance understanding. Because experimentalists can create the environment or process they want to study, this strategy of intervention and manipulation constitutes the main distinction between experimental work and other forms of social observation.
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ISSN:1049-0965
1537-5935
DOI:10.1017/S1049096513001741