An experiment entails randomly assigning participants to various conditions or
manipulations. Given common consent requirements, this means experimenters need to …

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 …

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

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 …

Empirical studies of cause and effect in social science may be divided into two broad
categories, experimental and observational. In the former, individuals or groups are …

Social scientists increasingly exploit natural experiments in their research. This article
surveys recent applications in political science, with the goal of illustrating the inferential …

In this essay, we closely examine three aspects of the Reporting Guidelines for this journal,
as described by Gerber et al.(2014, Journal of Experimental Political Science 1 (1): 81–98) …

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

This article mentions that the number of experiments has increased dramatically in political
science in the last thirty-five years because of their power for making causal inferences. It …

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 …