Workshop: Advances in Experimental Political Science: Evanston, IL

实验是政治学的核心方法论。来自各个领域的学者经常转向实验。实践者依靠实验证据来评估社会计划，政策，机构和信息提供。因此，实验成为本科生和研究生课程的组成部分也就不足为奇了。在过去的五年里，社会科学实验的方法有了很大的发展，部分原因是“复制危机”-即实验的低复制率的发现。与此同时，政治科学家通过挖掘新的数据源（例如，精英样本）和引入以前在该学科中很少受到关注的方法（例如，为了确保该学科成功地解决实验的可靠性和可复制性问题，并充分利用方法上的进步，该项目将召集与会者参加一个题为“实验政治学的进步”的讲习班。“研讨会的文件将于稍后以同一名称出版。这是2009年由国家科学基金会支持的实验研讨会的后续活动，并由此出版了广泛使用的剑桥实验政治学手册。那次研讨会和那本书出版时，实验仍然是政治学中一种新兴的方法论。上述的争论和发展意味着我们现在正处于一个关键时刻，要举办另一个研讨会并出版一本新的文集。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Experiments are a central methodology in political science. Scholars from every subfield regularly turn to experiments. Practitioners rely on experimental evidence in evaluating social programs, policies, institutions, and information provision. It is thus not surprising that experiments constitute an integral part of undergraduate and graduate curricula. Over the last five years, approaches to social science experimentation have evolved greatly, due in part to the "replication crisis" - that is, findings of low replication rates of experiments. At the same time, political scientists have expanded the reach of experiments by tapping new data sources (e.g., elite samples) and introducing methods that had previously received scant attention in the discipline (e.g., conjoint experiments).In order to ensure that the discipline successfully navigates questions about the reliability and replicability of experiments and fully exploits methodological advances, the project would gather participants for a workshop, "Advances in Experimental Political Science." The workshop papers will later be published in a volume by the same name. This is a follow-up to a 2009 workshop on experimentation supported by the National Science Foundation, and the resulting publication of the widely-used Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science. That workshop and volume came at a time when experiments were still an emergent methodology in political science. The aforementioned debates and developments mean that we are now at a crucial time to hold another workshop and publish a new collected volume.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.