Experimentation and Simulation in Political Science /

Experimentation and Simulation in Political Science / / ed. by J.A. Laponce, Paul Smoker.

It is rare for the political scientist who handles data which he has not generated himself to cast his mind to that of an observer watching an experiment, it is equally rare for him to plan controlled experiments in which he creates his own data. This lack of attention to the experimental aspect of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Alker, Hayward R.,
Argyle, Michael,
Cappello, Hector M.,
Christenen, Cheryl,
Collett, Peter,
Cornblit, Oscar,
Deutsch, Karl W.,
Eulau, Heinz,
Golembiewski, Robert T.,
Lanphier, C . Michael,
Laponce, J. A.,
Leavitt, Michael R.,
Mushakoji, Kinhide,
Pelowski, Allan L.,
Riker, William H.,
Ruge, Mari Holmboe,
Smoker, Paul,
Vertinsky, Ilan,
Wiatr, Jerzy J.,
Zavoina, William James,
HerausgeberIn:
Laponce, J.A.,
Smoker, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1972
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (476 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contributors
  • Contents
  • INTRODUCTION: Experimenting: a two-person game between man and nature
  • I. EXPERIMENTS AND POLITICAL THEORY
  • The contribution of experiments within the framework of political theory
  • II. PRE-DAT A AND POST-DAT A EXPERIMENTS
  • International tension as a function of reduced communication
  • The use of visual space to measure ideology
  • Policy-making in American cities: comparisons in a quasi-longitudinal, quasi-experimental design
  • Experiments in self-government: the Polish case
  • III. SOCIAL AND PAPER GAMES
  • The strategies of negotiation: an American-Japanese comparison
  • Rational behaviour in politics: evidence from a three-person game
  • Social skills and intercultural communication in politics
  • IV. COMPUTER SIMULATIONS
  • From causal modelling to artificial intelligence: the evolution of a UN peace-making simulation
  • Political coalitions and political behaviour: a simulation model
  • An event-based simulation of the Taiwan Straits crises
  • Markov processes in international crises: an analytical addendum to an event-based simulation of the Taiwan Straits crises
  • V. MAN AND MAN/ COMPUTER SIMULATIONS
  • Image and reality in simulated international systems
  • International processes simulation: a description
  • VI. EXPERIMENTATION, SIMULATION, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
  • A planned change in organizational style: underlying theory and some results
  • Methodology for social planning: simulation and experimentation processes for participatory social development
  • VII. SUBJECTS AND RESEARCHERS: RIGHTS AND DUTIES
  • Ethical considerations and research procedures
  • Index

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