Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics
Logical, Methodological, and Psychological Perspectives
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-691-21507-5
- EAN: 9780691215075
- Produktnummer: 33962407
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Plattform: PDF
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Edited by Philip E. Tetlock & Aaron Belkin
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