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1 SAMPOL903: Survey Experiments: Design and Data Analysis Ph. D. Course, Digital Social Science Core Facility, University of Bergen, April, Venue: DIGSSCORE Lab, Fosswinckelsgate This is a preliminary plan for the course. We may make adjustments depending on the needs of course participants. Programme Monday 24 April Registration Introduction to survey experiments Lunch Introduction to analysis of survey experimental data Analysis of survey experimental data, individual work on own/provided data set Evening assignment: Individual work on data analysis. Tuesday 25 April Brief presentations of data analysis work. Feedback by instructor and other students Hypothesis development. Independent, supervised work on own project. Output: Students to write a brief summary of hypotheses they hope to test with their first survey experiment Lunch Students present initial hypotheses orally. Feedback by instructor(s) and by other students Independent work on own survey experiment; hypothesis development. Students work on a description of an experiment to test hypotheses. Evening assignment: Individual work on experiment specification Course dinner, instructors and participants. 1

2 Wednesday 26 April Presentation of students' experiments. Feedback to students' experiments Supervised work on experiments Lunch Group work session: Development of experiments ready for pre-testing and/or fielding in a survey. 2

3 Reading List (600 pages, to be supplemented) Survey Experiments, Part 1 (about 80 pages) Gaines, Brian J., James H. Kuklinski, and Paul J. Quirk The Logic of the Survey Experiment Reexamined. Political Analysis 15: Sniderman, Paul M The Logic and Design of the Survey Experiment: An Autobiography of a Methodological Innovation. In Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science, eds. Druckman, Green, Kuklinski, and Lupia, New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. Grimmer, Justin, Sean J. Westwood, and Simon Messing Credit Claiming. In The Impression of Influence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press. Petersen, Michael, Rune Slothuus, Rune Stubager, and Lise Togeby Freedom for All? The Strength and Limits of Political Tolerance. British Journal of Political Science 41(3): Simonovits, Gabor Centrist by Comparison: Extremism and the Expansion of the Political Spectrum. Political Behavior, forthcoming. Survey Experiments, Part 2 Nock, Steven L., and Thomas M. Guterbock Survey Experiments. In Handbook of Survey Research, eds. Peter V. Marsden and James D. Wright, pp Emerald. Bansak, Kirk, Jens Hainmueller, and Dominik Hangartner How Economic, Humanitarian, and Religious Concerns Shape European Attitudes toward Asylum-Seekers. Science. September 22. Schachter, Ariela From Different to Similar : An Experimental Approach to Understanding Assimilation. American Sociological Review, forthcoming. Hainmueller, Jens, Dominik Hangartner, and Teppei Yamamoto Validating Vignette and Conjoint Survey Experiments Against Real-World Behavior. PNAS 112(8):

4 Mediators and Moderators Imai, Kosuke, Luke Keele, Dustin Tingley, and Teppei Yamamoto Unpacking the Black Box of Causality: Learning About Causal Mechanisms from Experimental and Observational Studies. American Political Science Review 105(4): Bullock, John G., Donald P. Green, and Shang E. Ha Yes, But What s the Mechanism? (Don t Expect an Easy Answer). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 98(4): Tomz, Michael R., and Jessica L. P. Weeks Public Opinion and the Democratic Peace. American Political Science Review 107(4): Lau, Richard R., and David P. Redlawsk, Advantages and Disadvantages of Cognitive Heuristics in Political Decision Making, American Journal of Political Science 45(4): Prather, Lauren Values at the Water s Edge: Social Welfare Values and Foreign Aid. Working Paper, University of California, San Diego. Question Wording and Attention Checks Krosnick, Jon A., and Stanley Presser Question and Questionnaire Design. In Handbook of Survey Research, 2nd ed, Emerald Group. Berinsky, Adam J., Michele F. Margolis, and Michael W. Sances Can We Turn Shirkers into Workers? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 66: Clifford, Scott, and Jennifer Jerit Do Attempts to Improve Respondent Attention Increase Social Desirability Bias? Public Opinion Quarterly 79(3): Aronow, Peter M., Jonathan Baron, and Pauren Pinson A Note on Dropping Experimental Subjects who Fail a Manipulation Check. Working Paper, Yale Univ. Pretesting and Convenience Samples 4

5 Presser, S., and J. Blair Survey Pretesting: Do Different Methods Produce Different Results? Sociological Methodology 24: Berinsky, Adam, Gregory Huber, and Gabriel Lenz Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com s Mechanical Turk. Political Analysis 20(3): Mullinix, Kevin J., Thomas J. Leeper, James N. Druckman, and Jeremy Freese The Generalizability of Survey Experiments. Journal of Experimental Political Science 2(2): Internet Surveys: Sampling, Weighting, and Interviewing Ansolabehere, Stephen, and Douglas Rivers Cooperative Survey Research. Annual Review of Political Science 16: Ansolabehere, Stephen and Brian F. Schaffner Does Survey Mode Still Matter? Findings from a 2010 Multi-Mode Comparison Political Analysis 22, no. 3: Yeager, David S., Jon A. Krosnick, Linchait Chang, Harold S. Javitz, Matthew S. Levendusky, Alberto Simpser, and Rui Wang Comparing the Accuracy of RDD Telephone Surveys and Internet Surveys Conducted with Probability and Non-Probability Samples. Public Opinion Quarterly 75: Blom, Annelies G., Michael Bosnjak, Anne Cornilleau, Anne-Sophie Cousteaux, Marcel Das, Salima Douhou, Ulrich Krieger A Comparison of Four Probability-Based Online and Mixed-Mode Panels in Europe. Social Science Computer Review 34(1): Social Desirability Tourangeau, Roger, and Ting Yan Sensitive Questions in Surveys. Psychological Bulletin 133(5): Blair, Graeme and Kosuke Imai Statistical Analysis of List Experiments. Political Analysis 20(1): Krysan, Maria, and Mick P. Couper Race in the Live and Virtual Interview: Racial Deference, Social Desirability, and Activation Effects in Attitude Surveys. Social Psychology Quarterly 66:

6 Lelkes, Yphtach, Jon A. Krosnick, David M. Marx, Charles M. Judd, and Bernadette Park Complete Anonymity Compromises the Accuracy of Self-Reports. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48(6):

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