Abstraction in Experimental Design - Testing the Tradeoffs

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Conceptual Framework: Dimensions of Abstraction in Experimental Design; 3. Methodological Overview; 4. Situational Hypotheticality; 5. Actor Identities; 6. Contextual Detail; 7. Individual Differences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects; 8. Conclusion.

Summary

This Element explores how political scientists designing experiments address how abstract their experimental stimuli should be. First, Brutger et al. provide a theoretical framework which identifies and considers the consequences of abstraction. Second, they field a range of survey experiments, varying these levels of abstraction.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Brutger, Ryan (University of California Brutger, Joshua D. Kertzer, Kertzer Joshua D., Jonathan Renshon, Renshon Jonathan, Chagai M. Weiss
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781108995597
• ISBN: 978-1-108-99559-7
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Experimental Political Science
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Political science and theory