Field Experiments and Their Critics: Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences (Institution for Social and Policy St) (The Institution for Social and Policy Studies) - Softcover

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Teele, Dawn Langan

 
9780300169409: Field Experiments and Their Critics: Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences (Institution for Social and Policy St) (The Institution for Social and Policy Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 030016940X ISBN 13: 9780300169409
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
030016940X
ISBN 13 
9780300169409
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
272