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Experimental Research in Political Science

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Experiments are a way of verifying the correctness of a theory or hypothesis under an artificial condition. They are especially effective in identifying causalities in a certain situation. Experiments have always been the driving force of natural and biological sciences. To take a simple example, early humans must have done experiments in agriculture: planting seeds in different fields with the same climate conditions and giving varying amounts of water and fertilizers would have led to different yields. Adopting the methods with the highest yields was precisely how agriculture made progress.

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  1. Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University, Collaboration Complex, 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 223-8526, Japan

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Taniguchi, N. (2019). Experimental Research in Political Science. In: Kawagoe, T., Takizawa, H. (eds) Diversity of Experimental Methods in Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6065-7_4

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