Theory and Credibility (eBook)

Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science

Scott Ashworth, Christopher R. Berry, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21500-6 (ISBN)

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A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social scienceThe credibility revolution, with its emphasis on empirical methods for causal inference, has led to concerns among scholars that the canonical questions about politics and society are being neglected because they are no longer deemed answerable. Theory and Credibility stakes out an opposing view-presenting a new vision of how, working together, the credibility revolution and formal theory can advance social scientific inquiry.This authoritative book covers the conceptual foundations and practicalities of both model building and research design, providing a new framework to link theory and empirics. Drawing on diverse examples from political science, it presents a typology of the rich set of interactions that are possible between theory and empirics. This typology opens up new ways for scholars to make progress on substantive questions, and enables researchers from disparate traditions to gain a deeper appreciation for each other's work and why it matters.Theory and Credibility shows theorists how to create models that are genuinely useful to empirical inquiry, and helps empiricists better understand how to structure their research in ways that speak to theoretically meaningful questions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.7.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 29 b/w illus. 20 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Accountability • all-else-equal relationships • A Model Discipline • Analogy • Appeasement • asymmetry • attractiveness • author • average treatment effect • awareness • bureaucrat • canvassing • Capital Flight • Case study • causal inference • Causality • Civil War • class diagram • collegiality • Commensurability (mathematics) • Committee Membership • Commodity • Compulsory Voting • Computational Model • Concoction • confidence • confounding • Consideration • Controversy • Copyright • Correlation and dependence • Corruption • Covariate • credibility • Criticism • critique • David M. Primo • Diffusion • Disentangling • distinguishing • Doctor of Philosophy • Dummy variable (statistics) • economy • Effectiveness • elaborating • Election • Elements of Research Design • Empirical Analysis • Empirical Evidence • Empiricism • Estimand • estimation • Event Study • Explanation • exploration • Externality • external validity • Extrapolation • Field Experiment • Finding • First impression (psychology) • Forecasting • Foreign Direct Investment • foreign policy • Forms of Government • Free Market • Fresh water • Game Theory • Gerrymandering • Good Governance • Governance • Grid cell • hypothesis • ideal type • Ideology • income • incrementalism • incumbent • Indication (medicine) • Inequality (mathematics) • inference • Instance (computer science) • instrumental variable • Insurgency • intentional explanations • International Organization • Irrationality • Jurisdiction • Kevin A. Clarke • Legislator • Legislature • Legitimacy (family law) • Likelihood Function • Literature • Logic • marginal utility • Mass production • mathematical structure • measles • Measurement Validity • Mediation (statistics) • Methodological Individualism • Methodology • Methods and Models • Mexican Drug War • Model Building • Monotonic Function • Moral Hazard • Nash Equilibrium • natural experiment • Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences • Negative relationship • Obligation • opportunity cost • Outcome (probability) • Pandering (politics) • Parameter • Percentage point • Performance Measurement • phenomenon • Policy • political efficacy • Political Party • Political Science • Politician • Politics • portability • Prediction • Preference (economics) • Princeton University Press • Principle • Probability • Prosecutor • Protozoa • Provision (contracting) • Publication Bias • Quantile • Quantitative Methods • Quantity • Race (human categorization) • radical empiricism • Rational Choice Theory • Rationality • real number • reason • Rebecca B. Morton • Regression Analysis • regression discontinuity design • Reinterpretation • reinterpreting • Republican Party (United States) • Requirement • Research design • respiratory disease • result • Risk Aversion • Robustness • Running • salary • Schistosomiasis • Scholarly method • Scholarship • Science • scientific enterprise • Scientific Method • Seminar • Sensitivity Analysis • similarityall-else-equal claims • skepticism • social phenomena • social phenomenon • Social Science • solution concept • spaniards • State Government • Statistic • statistical model • Statistical population • statistical significance • Statistics • Subset • Subversion • Syncope (medicine) • Tax • Terminology • Term limit • Textbook • Thad Dunning • theory • The Other Hand • Thought • Trade-off • Transparency • Uncertainty • Understanding • Unemployment • Unintended Consequences • Unit of analysis • Upside risk • Utility • Variable (computer science) • Variable (mathematics) • Verstehen • Viral hemorrhagic fever • Voter turnout • Voting • Wealth • year • zip code
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21500-6 / 0691215006
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21500-6 / 9780691215006