The advent of experimental political science -- Experiments and causal relations -- The causal inference problem and the Rubin Causal Model -- Controlling observables and unobservables -- Randomization and pseudo-randomization -- Formal theory and causality -- Validity and experimental manipulations -- Location, artificiality, and related design issues -- Choosing subjects -- Subjects' motivations -- History of codes of ethics and human subjects research -- Ethical decision making and political science experiments -- Deception in experiments -- The future of experimental political science -- Appendix: the experimentalist's to do list

1. Thought experimerts
2. Political science -- Research
3. Political science -- Methodology