RCTs and Democratic Experimentalism

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have become a dominant method for policy evaluation, promising credible causal inference and evidence-based governance. However, their value dep

Shaun Nichols

Henry Farrell

Margaret Levi

Harnessing Variation: Rethinking Experimental Research for Middle-Range Theorizing

Sociology has long been concerned with explaining variation rather than identifying universal laws that apply across all contexts. Yet experimental research in sociology is often c

Forrest Briscoe

Delia Baldassari

The Problem of Context

We all know that “context matters,” yet both intuitively and in the social sciences we fail to appreciate its impact and to take the effects of context sufficiently into accoun

Brett de Bary

Eldar Shafir