Information, accountability, and cumulative learning : lessons from Metaketa I /

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Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Description:xxxi, 464 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11926209
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Other authors / contributors:Dunning, Thad, 1973- editor.
Humphreys, Macartan, editor.
Hyde, Susan D., editor.
McIntosh, Craig, editor.
Nellis, Gareth, editor.
ISBN:9781108422284
1108422284
9781108435048
1108435041
9781108397117
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Throughout the world, voters lack access to information about politicians, government performance, and public services. Efforts to remedy these informational deficits are numerous. Yet do informational campaigns influence voter behavior and increase democratic accountability? Through the first project of the Metaketa Initiative, sponsored by the Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) research network, this book aims to address this substantive question and at the same time introduce a new model for cumulative learning that increases coordination among otherwise independent researcher teams. It presents the overall results (using meta-analysis) from six independently conducted but coordinated field experimental studies, the results from each individual study, and the findings from a related evaluation of whether practitioners utilize this information as expected. It also discusses lessons learned from EGAP's efforts to coordinate field experiments, increase replication of theoretically important studies across contexts, and increase the external validity of field experimental research"--
Other form:ebook version : 9781108397117