@article{92b26eef4a7b469e8c9110f3e4537db3,
title = "Learning from each other: causal inference and American political development",
abstract = "Within political science, a movement focused on increasing the credibility of causal inferences (CIs) has gained considerable traction in recent years. While CI has been incorporated extensively into most disciplinary subfields, it has not been applied often in the study of American political development (APD). This special issue considers ways in which scholars of CI and APD can engage in mutually beneficial ways to produce better overall research. As the contributions to the symposium demonstrate, clear scientific gains are to be had from greater CI–APD engagement.",
keywords = "American political development, Causal inference, Gains from engagement",
author = "Jenkins, {Jeffery A.} and Nolan McCarty and Charles Stewart",
note = "Funding Information: To examine how causal inference and APD could complement and enhance one another, we held a conference in January 2019 at the University of Southern California, sponsored in part by a National Science Foundation grant awarded to the Society for Political Methodology. 4 We envisioned, for example, that scholars of causal inference might be able to provide advice on how particular CI techniques and methodologies could help APD scholars develop deeper and cleaner causal arguments. In addition, we also believed that APD scholars could help causal inference scholars to identify cases—and the historical contexts surrounding them—that would be candidates for the application of standard causal-inference designs. In organizing the conference, we asked authors to think about and address one or more of the following four questions: Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s11127-019-00728-x",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "185",
pages = "245--251",
journal = "Public Choice",
issn = "0048-5829",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "3-4",
}