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Survey Experiment

A survey experiment embeds a randomized experiment inside a survey: respondents are randomly assigned to different versions of a question, frame, or stimulus, and their answers are compared to estimate a causal effect. By combining the internal validity of randomization with the representative samples and rich measurement of survey research, survey experiments — especially population-based ones — let political scientists draw causal inferences about how information, framing, or message attributes shape public attitudes and behavior.

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Survey Experiment (Population-Based Experiment)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / political-science
  • Mutz, D. C. (2011). Population-Based Survey Experiments. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. · ISBN 9780691144528
  • Gaines, B. J., Kuklinski, J. H., & Quirk, P. J. (2007). The Logic of the Survey Experiment Reexamined. Political Analysis, 15(1), 1–20. · DOI 10.1093/pan/mpl008
  • Druckman, J. N., Green, D. P., Kuklinski, J. H., & Lupia, A. (Eds.) (2011). Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science. Cambridge University Press. · ISBN 9780521174558
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