An exploration of core problems in experimental research on voting behavior and political institutions, ranging from design and data analysis to inferences with respect to constructs, constituencies and causal claims. The focus of it is on the implementation of principles in experimental political science and the reflection of actual practices.es.

Bernhard Kittel is Professor of Economic Sociology, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna, Austria. He is interested in collective decision making and comparative political economy. His work appears in Social Choice and Welfare, the European Political Science Review, the European Sociological Review, the Socio-Economic Review, and Work and Occupations. Wolfgang J. Luhan is Assistant Professor and Head of the Experimental Lab (RUBex) at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany. His work has appeared in Experimental Economics and Social Choice and Welfare. Rebecca B. Morton is Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University, USA. She is the author of Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality: From Nature to the Lab (with Kenneth C. Williams, 2010) and Methods and Models: A Guide to the Empirical Analysis of Formal Models in Political Science (1999). Her research has also appeared in leading journals in political science and economics.