Workshop: Advances in Experimental Political Science: Evanston, IL

研讨会：实验政治学的进展：伊利诺伊州埃文斯顿

• 批准号: 1822286
• 负责人: James Druckman
• 金额: $ 4.5万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-15 至 2021-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1822286&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Advances; Experimental; Political; Science

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.

实验是政治学的核心方法论。来自各个子领域的学者定期转向实验。从业者在评估社会项目、政策、机构和信息提供时依赖于实验证据。因此，实验是本科生和研究生课程不可或缺的一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发生了很大的变化，部分原因是“复制危机”--即实验复制率低的结果。与此同时，政治学家通过挖掘新的数据来源(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(例如联合实验)来扩大实验的范围。为了确保该学科成功地解决关于实验的可靠性和可重复性的问题，并充分利用方法学进步，该项目将召集参与者举办一个研讨会，名为“实验政治学进展”。研讨会的论文稍后将以同名的卷出版。这是2009年由美国国家科学基金会支持的一次实验研讨会的后续行动，以及由此出版的广泛使用的《剑桥实验政治学手册》。那次研讨会和研讨会的召开正值实验仍是政治学中一种新兴的方法论的时候。上述辩论和发展意味着我们现在正处于举办另一场研讨会并出版新的合集的关键时刻。这一奖项反映了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。