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Copyright Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienza Politiche Sociali Jun 2014

Abstract

This article examines the use of experimental method in political science. In the first part we put in evidence the constitutive principles and the limits of the experimental method. Subsequently we highlight the practical research problems deriving from the transposition of the experimental approach in the domain of human sciences. We offer a brief review of the main fields of political science where the experiment has been adopted. In the second part we analyze three of most famous political experiments: Gosnell's experiment (1926) on the reasons of electoral abstention; Eldersveld's experiment (1956) on the effects of propaganda strategies on electoral behavior; Iyengar's experiment (1982) on television effects of political preferences expressed by media's users. Each experiment is described in-depth; the critique pinpoints the numerous and serious violations of the classic experimental method, which results totally distorted.

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Title
[L'esperimento in scienza politica] Alcuni elementi di critica metodologica1/Experiment in Political Science: Some Elements of Methodological Critique
Author
Calò, Cristina; Rago, Marina
Pages
189-208,257,259
Publication year
2014
Publication date
Jun 2014
Publisher
Firenze University Press Università degli Studi di Firenze
e-ISSN
22391118
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Italian
ProQuest document ID
1615348668
Copyright
Copyright Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienza Politiche Sociali Jun 2014