TY - BOOK AU - Jenkins,Jeffery A. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Causal Inference and American Political Development: New Frontiers T2 - Studies in Public Choice, SN - 9783031749131 AV - JK1-9993 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Springer KW - America KW - Politics and government KW - Economics KW - Social choice KW - Political science KW - World politics KW - American Politics KW - Public Choice and Political Economy KW - Methodology of Political Science KW - Political History N1 - Introduction -- Learning from each other causal inference and American political development -- A developmental approach to historical causal inference -- The inferential opportunity of specificity how institutional and historical detail can enable causal explanations and inference -- American Political Development and new challenges of causal inference -- Causes Theories and the Past in Political Science1 -- Formal Models Causal Inference and American Political Development -- Causal inference and American political development Contrasts and complementarities -- Applying regression discontinuity designs to American political development -- Whats APD Got to Do with It -- Causal Inference and American Political Development Common Challenges and Opportunities -- Approaching Historical Data Collection with Causal Inference in Mind -- Natural Experiments and Historical Social Science The View from HPE -- On the Relationship Between History and Political Science David Stasavage N2 - This volume discusses the application of causal inference techniques in the study of American political development (APD). Within political science, a movement focused on increasing the credibility of causal inferences (CI) 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 APD. This edited volume considers ways in which scholars of CI and APD can engage in mutually beneficial ways to produce better overall research UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74913-1 ER -