Counterfactual Thought Experiments In World Politics
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Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics
Political scientists often ask themselves what might have been if history had unfolded differently: if Stalin had been ousted as General Party Secretary or if the United States had not dropped the bomb on Japan. Although scholars sometimes scoff at applying hypothetical reasoning to world politics, the contributors to this volume--including James Fearon, Richard Lebow, Margaret Levi, Bruce Russett, and Barry Weingast--find such counterfactual conjectures not only useful, but necessary for drawing causal inferences from historical data. Given the importance of counterfactuals, it is perhaps surprising that we lack standards for evaluating them. To fill this gap, Philip Tetlock and Aaron Belkin propose a set of criteria for distinguishing plausible from implausible counterfactual conjectures across a wide range of applications.
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Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0691027919 |
ISBN-13 | 9780691027913 |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Publication Date | 1996 |
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Height | 6 inch. |
Length | 0.89 inch. |
Width | 9 inch. |
Weight | 1.23 pounds. |
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