47-1   Roundtable on Constructivist and Interpretive Methods

Date:

Friday, Aug 29, 10:00 AM

Co-sponsored by Conference Group on Theory, Policy and Society, Panel 2

Chair:

Kathryn Sikkink, ksikkink@umn.edu, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Participant(s):

Dvora Yanow, dyanow@csuhayward.edu, California State University, Hayward
Mark Bevir, mbevir@socrates.berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley
David Dessler, dadess@wm.edu, College of William and Mary
Christopher K. Ansell, cansell@uclink.berkeley.edu, University of California, Berkeley

47-2   Causal Mechanisms

Date:

Thursday, Aug 28, 10:00 AM

Co-sponsored by 11-20

Chair:

John Gerring, jgerring@bu.edu, Boston University

Author(s):

Beyond Hempel and Back to Hume: Causal Mechanisms and Causal Explanations
Andrew Bennett, bennetta@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University

Causation: A Unified Framework for the Social Sciences
John Gerring, jgerring@bu.edu, Boston University

Positivist Progress? Why Inference, Generalization and Prediction are Not Enough, Or the Necessity of Causal Mechanisms in Social Explanation
James D. Johnson, jjsn@troi.cc.rochester.edu, University of Rochester

Tentative Answers to Questions About Causal Mechanisms
James Mahoney, james_mahoney@brown.edu, Brown University

 

Discussant(s):

Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, jboxstef+@osu.edu, Ohio State University

47-3   Measuring Democracy: Methodological Innovations and New Data Sets

Date:

Friday, Aug 29, 4:15 PM

Co-sponsored by 11-21

47-4   Experiments in Political Research: Exploring New Substantive Domains

Date:

Friday, Aug 29, 8:00 AM

Co-sponsored by 8-9

Chair:

Rose McDermott, rmcdermott@polsci.ucsb.edu, University of California, Santa Barbara

Author(s):

Political Regimes and Economic Development: A Model of Reference-Dependent Choices and Experimental Data
Andrew C. Gould, agould@nd.edu, University of Notre Dame

  Andrew J. Maggio, andrew.maggio@morganstanley.com, Morgan Stanley

Does Information Technology Energize Voters? Experimental Evidence from the 2000 and 2002 Campaigns
Shanto Iyengar, siyengar@stanford.edu, Stanford University
  Simon Jackman, jackman@stanford.edu, Stanford University

Sex Differences in a Crisis Simulation Game
Rose McDermott, rmcdermott@polsci.ucsb.edu, University of California, Santa Barbara

Bargaining Experiments in the Field: The Traveling Laboratory in Siberia
Rick K. Wilson, rkw@rice.edu, Rice University
  Donna Bahry, donna.l.bahry@vanderbilt.edu, Vanderbilt University

 

Discussant(s):

Paul M. Sniderman, paulms@stanford.edu, Stanford University

47-5   Roundtable on Teaching Qualitative Methods

Date:

Thursday, Aug 28, 4:15 PM

Chair:

Elizabeth Kier, ekier@u.washington.edu, University of Washington

Participant(s):

Elizabeth Kier, ekier@u.washington.edu, University of Washington
Gerardo L. Munck, munck@usc.edu, University of Southern California
Kurt Weyland, kweyland@mail.la.utexas.edu, University of Texas
James Mahoney, james_mahoney@brown.edu, Brown University
Martha Feldman, msfieldma@umich.edu, University of Michigan

47-6   Roundtable on Can the Study of Politics Be "Scientific"? A Conversation on Interpretive, Qualitative, and Quantitative Methodologies

Date:

Friday, Aug 29, 8:00 AM

Co-sponsored by 3-2