Definitions
This refers to the placement of groups in a study, with specific attention to the style of choice to ensure the groups are alike in all respects.
What is Random Assignment?
"A ____ ____ may be understood as an intensive study of a single case where the purpose of that study — at least in part — is to shed light on a larger class of cases (a population)."
What is Case Study?
These experiments are based on larger and more representative samples of participants.
This design compares a number of cases at a single point in time.
What is a Cross-Sectional Design?
This letter is a common shorthand for the number of cases in a sample.
This term gives us confidence that the results are accurate and true for the cases under the study. In other words, it refers to our ability to figure out what happened, why, or both.
What is Internal Validity?
"Political scientists who run experiments are oriented toward ______."
What is Variables?
In this design, researchers collect data at regular intervals for a given case and compare those observations over time.
What is Time Series Design?
This style of design is focused on analytic breadth/knowing a few things about many cases.
Howard refers to a study, "One of the more famous experiments concerning the media relied on a few dozen volunteers who replied to a newspaper ad in New Haven, Connecticut." What university campus did this study take place on?
What is Yale University?
This refers to the ability to extend the findings to some larger population of cases.
What is External Validity?
"There is, in short, a certain machinelike quality to __________ _______."
What is Experimental Designs?
These natural, realistic experiments are built to try and overcome threats to external validity.
What are Field Experiments?
Compared to its counterpart, this design lacks control and is left up to the "variation the world of politics gives them."
What is Observational Design?
In the Small-n Case Studies paragraph, Howard uses this famous band to explain problems with external validity in case studies.
Considered an "emerging trend," this strategy employs two or more designs in a single research project.
What is Multi-method Research/Methodological Triangulation?
"Advances in survey software and easier access to ______ _____ have made [survey-based experiments] much more feasible."
What is National Samples?
This experiment setting is probably the most vulnerable to threats to external validity.
What are Laboratory Experiments?
This style of design is focused on depth/knowing many things about a few cases.
What are Case-Oriented Designs?
The author refers to this famous comedian when describing case studies's lack of respect amongst research designs.
Who is Rodney Dangerfield?
Intrinsically historical, researchers rely on this to identify and test the ways in which some independent variables might influence some outcome. Answering the "How" question to figure out the "Why" question.
What is Process Tracing?
FOOTNOTE: "Thus, field experiments might generate something that political scientists value highly: ________ measures of political phenomena."
What is Unobtrusive?
In this design, comparisons over time and across space are now made.
What is Time-Series Cross-Sectional Research Design?
Control over subject assignments and manipulation of values of one or more independent values is what distinguishes this design from its counterpart.
What is Experimental Design?
"My book contract limits me to eighty-five thousand words; if I exceed that limit, all my royalties will be automatically donated to the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill." What rival university does Howard state he graduated from?
What is Duke?