Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models in Political Science

ISBN-13: 9780521193863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 267 str.

Jim Granato; Melody Lo; M. C. Sunny Wong

Opis

Provides a framework to demonstrate how to unify formal, theoretical and empirical analysis through various interdisciplinary examples.

Recenzje

'Too often in the social sciences, formal theories and empirical studies have occupied separate worlds. This book is a masterful overview of a more modern approach, demonstrating how empirical implications can be rigorously derived from theoretical models. The new framework not only lets researchers test models more reliably, but more importantly, it directs them to previously unsuspected empirical findings that conventional empirical analysis will not uncover. This is a volume that every empirical researcher will want to read.' Christopher H. Achen, Princeton University

Spis treści

Part I. EITM: Background and Framework: 1. Modeling Insights and Pathbreaking Institutions A Sketch; 2. Contemporary Methodological Practices; 3. The EITM Framework; Part II. EITM in Practice: 4. Economic Voting; 5. Strategists and Macropartisanship; 6. Macro Policy; 7. Information Diffusion; 8. Political Parties and Representation; 9. Voter Turnout; 10. International Political Economy; 11. Macro Political Economy; 12. Social Behavior and Evolutionary Dynamics; 13 Competition and Reward Valuation; 14. An Alternative Unification Framework; 15. Conclusion.