The experimental approach has begun to permeate political science research, increasingly
so in the last decade. Laboratory researchers face at least two challenges: determining who …

Experimental political science has changed. In two short decades, it evolved from an
emergent method to an accepted method to a primary method. The challenge now is to …

Experimentation is an increasingly popular method among political scientists. While
experiments are highly advantageous for creating internally valid conclusions, they are often …

Until the mid-twentieth century, the disci-pline of political science was primarily qualitative-
philosophical, descriptive, legalistic, and typically reliant on case studies that failed to probe …

Laboratory experiments, survey experiments, and field experiments occupy a central and
growing place in the discipline of political science. The Cambridge Handbook of …

Although political scientists have long expressed skepticism about the prospects for
experimental science, an analysis of the first hundred volumes of the American Political …

Scholars of political behavior increasingly embed experimental designs in opinion surveys
by randomly assigning respondents alternative versions of questionnaire items. Such …

The Standards Committee of the Experimental Research Section of the American Political
Science Association has produced reporting guidelines that aim to increase the clarity of …

The term “natural experiment” is used inconsistently. In one interpretation, it refers to an
experiment where a treatment is randomly assigned by someone other than the researcher …

This chapter provides an overview of convenience sampling in political science
experimental research. We first define convenience sampling and track its use in political …