Theory and Credibility: Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science

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A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social science The credibility revolution, with its emphasis on empirical methods for causal inference, has led to concerns among scholars that the canonical questions about politics and society are being neglected because they are no longer de

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Scott Ashworth is professor at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. Twitter @soashworth Christopher R. Berry is the William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor at Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. He is the author of Imperfect Union. Ethan Bueno de Mesquita is the Sydney Stein Professor and deputy dean at Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. He is the author of Political Economy for Public Policy (Princeton). Twitter @ethanbdm