TY - JOUR
AU - McDermott, Rose
AB - International Studies Quarterly (2011) 55, 493–501 Experimental Approaches to International Relations Alex Mintz Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Yi Yang James Madison University and Rose McDermott Brown University A growing number of studies in international relations use experiments. Roth (1995) discusses at least three purposes for experiments: (i) testing theoreti- cally derived models, or ‘‘speaking to theorists’’; (ii) data generation, which he called ‘‘searching for facts,’’; and (iii) ‘‘searching for meaning,’’ referring to policy applications, which he described as ‘‘whispering in the ears of princes.’’ Experiments in international relations have typically focused on the ‘‘searching for facts’’ type of experimental function and on theory (and hypotheses) testing. The main substantive contributions of experiments in international relations have been: (i) Experimental research has tried to shed light on both micro- level and macro-level behavior in international relations, often using different manipulations, samples, and populations, to explore these phenomena; (ii) Experiments, as heuristic devices, have also contributed to the emergence of new theories in international relations and foreign policy analysis, especially poliheuristic models; (iii) Experimental research has also provided cross-valida- tion for findings derived primarily from other methodologies, such as statisti- cal analysis, case studies, formal analysis, simulations, and computational modeling. In this 
TI - Experimental Approaches to International Relations
JF - International Studies Quarterly
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2478.2011.00662.x
DA - 2011-06-07
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/experimental-approaches-to-international-relations-C99dtlvDaM
SP - 493
EP - 501
VL - 55
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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