Introduction to the Special Issue

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6331997
AutoresJohn Aldrich (0000-0002-9637-3420), John H Aldrich (0009-0003-6345-1474, Duke University), James Alt (Harvard University)
Ano2003
Volume11
Fascículo4
Páginas309-315
Data de publicação2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolitical Analysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1047-1987 • E-ISSN: 1476-4989
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/pan/mpg019
OpenAlexW4250142457
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas10

This special issue is devoted to original articles that reflect recent progress in one of the most exciting developments in Political Science, the National Science Foundation's (NSF) initiative called Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM). This initiative reflects the ideas and hard work of the Political Science team there, Jim Granato and Frank Scioli, backed up by the contributions of an EITM panel that assembled at NSF in July 2001, some of whose observations we mention below. The challenge set by the EITM program is straightforward: to improve our theoretical work so that it yields more testable hypotheses and to improve our methodological work so that testing is made more effective and informative about theories. It is hard to object to this, but it also turns out to be hard to meet fully. The EITM initiative contains several components designed to close the gap between theoretical derivation and empirical test. This issue represents one component, presenting some of the most innovative work in the discipline on the current research frontier in EITM

Component (thermodynamics · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Foundation (evidence · Frontier · Management science · Object (grammar · Political science · Politics · Set (abstract data type · Test (biology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Engineering · Political Conflict and Governance · Political Science Research and Education · Artificial Intelligence · Law