Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models in Political Science

Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models in Political Science
Author: Jim Granato
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009038176

Tension has long existed in the social sciences between quantitative and qualitative approaches on one hand, and theory-minded and empirical techniques on the other. The latter divide has grown sharper in the wake of new behavioural and experimental perspectives which draw on both sides of these modelling schemes. This book works to address this disconnect by establishing a framework for methodological unification: empirical implications of theoretical models (EITM). This framework connects behavioural and applied statistical concepts, develops analogues of these concepts, and links and evaluates these analogues. The authors offer detailed explanations of how these concepts may be framed, to assist researchers interested in incorporating EITM into their own research. They go on to demonstrate how EITM may be put into practice for a range of disciplines within the social sciences, including voting, party identification, social interaction, learning, conflict and cooperation to macro-policy formulation.

The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology

The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology
Author: Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks of Political
Total Pages: 880
Release: 2008
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199286546

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from major international scholars The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology provides the key point of reference for anyone working throughout the discipline.

A Model Discipline

A Model Discipline
Author: Kevin A. Clarke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0195382196

Political scientists use models to investigate and illuminate causal mechanisms, generate comparative data, and more. But how do we justify and rationalize the method? Why test predictions from a deductive, and thus truth-preserving, system? Primo and Clarke tackle these central questions in this novel work of methodology.

Methods and Models

Methods and Models
Author: Rebecca B. Morton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1999-08-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139427733

At present much of political science consists of a large body of formal mathematical work that remains largely unexplored empirically and an expanding use of sophisticated statistical techniques. While there are examples of noteworthy efforts to bridge the gap between these, there is still a need for much more cooperative work between formal theorists and empirical researchers in the discipline. This book explores how empirical analysis has, can, and should be used to evaluate formal models in political science. The book is intended to be a guide for active and future political scientists who are confronting the issues of empirical analysis with formal models in their work and as a basis for a needed dialogue between empirical and formal theoretical researchers in political science. These developments, if combined, are potentially a basis for a new revolution in political science.

Methods, Theories, and Empirical Applications in the Social Sciences

Methods, Theories, and Empirical Applications in the Social Sciences
Author: Samuel Salzborn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2012-03-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3531188984

The volume addresses major features in empirical social research from methodological and theoretical perspectives. Prominent researchers discuss central problems in empirical social research in a theory-driven way from political science, sociological or social-psychological points of view. These contributions focus on a renewed discussion of foundations together with innovative and open research questions or interdisciplinary research perspectives.

Voter Turnout

Voter Turnout
Author: Meredith Rolfe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2012-02-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 110737913X

This book develops and empirically tests a social theory of political participation. It overturns prior understandings of why some people (such as college-degree holders, churchgoers and citizens in national rather than local elections) vote more often than others. The book shows that the standard demographic variables are not proxies for variation in the individual costs and benefits of participation, but for systematic variation in the patterns of social ties between potential voters. Potential voters who move in larger social circles, particularly those including politicians and other mobilizing actors, have more access to the flurry of electoral activity prodding citizens to vote and increasing political discussion. Treating voting as a socially defined practice instead of as an individual choice over personal payoffs, a social theory of participation is derived from a mathematical model with behavioral foundations that is empirically calibrated and tested using multiple methods and data sources.

Learning While Governing

Learning While Governing
Author: Sean Gailmard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226924408

Sean Gailmard is the Judith E. Gruber Associate Professor in the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. John W. Patty is associate professor of political science at Washington University.

Models, Numbers, and Cases

Models, Numbers, and Cases
Author: Detlef F. Sprinz
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2004
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780472068616

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A Model Discipline

A Model Discipline
Author: Kevin A. Clarke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019538220X

Political scientists use models to investigate and illuminate causal mechanisms, generate comparative data, and more. But how do we justify and rationalize the method? Why test predictions from a deductive, and thus truth-preserving, system? Primo and Clarke tackle these central questions in this novel work of methodology.