In the last decades, 'research design' has become a strategic topic across political science. An emerging discourse relies on it to encompass paradigmatic oppositions and cultivate a pluralist approach to causation. As an introduction to the special issue on the topic, we offer an outline of the roles that the discipline recognizes to design in its relation to models and contend that, in a time of fascination for predictors, political science pluralism allows for balancing interpretability and validity of findings at once.

Capturing causation in political science : The perspective of research design / L. Curini, A. Damonte. - In: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI SCIENZA POLITICA. - ISSN 0048-8402. - 51:special issue 2(2021 Jul), pp. 157-163. ((Intervento presentato al 2. convegno Metrisp Workshop tenutosi a Catania nel 2019 [10.1017/ipo.2021.28].

Capturing causation in political science : The perspective of research design

L. Curini
Primo
Writing – Review & Editing
;
A. Damonte
Secondo
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
2021

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In the last decades, 'research design' has become a strategic topic across political science. An emerging discourse relies on it to encompass paradigmatic oppositions and cultivate a pluralist approach to causation. As an introduction to the special issue on the topic, we offer an outline of the roles that the discipline recognizes to design in its relation to models and contend that, in a time of fascination for predictors, political science pluralism allows for balancing interpretability and validity of findings at once.
Causal inference; causal model; political science; research design
Settore SPS/04 - Scienza Politica
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Italian Political Science Association (SISP)
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