Counterfactuals and Hypothesis Testing in Political Science

Theory of International Politics

1980 • 8,199 citations

Theory of International Politics, by Kenneth N. Waltz

1980 • 6,661 citations

States and Social Revolutions

1979 • 5,102 citations

Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method

1971 • 2,987 citations

Social origins of dictatorship and democracy

1966 • 2,502 citations

Methodology of Social Sciences

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Handbook of political science

1975 • 2,295 citations

The Structure of Science

1961 • 2,286 citations

The Structure of Science

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The Comparative Method

1987 • 1,360 citations

Rationalizable Strategic Behavior

1984 • 1,292 citations

States and Social Revolutions

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III. “Degrees of Freedom” and the Case Study

1975 • 1,057 citations

The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry

1980 • 1,036 citations

The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism

2019 • 986 citations

Injustice

1978 • 773 citations

The Methodology of the Social Sciences

1949 • 760 citations

The Structure of Scientific Theories

1978 • 726 citations

Interpreting and Using Regression

1982 • 599 citations

The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes.

1980 • 575 citations

The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918

1955 • 533 citations

Causation and conditionals

1975 • 470 citations

The Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals

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The Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War

1984 • 418 citations

The limits of coercive diplomacy

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Explaining Technical Change

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The Structure of Scientific Theories.

1976 • 384 citations

Domestic Politics and War

1989 • 382 citations

The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective

2015 • 374 citations

Domestic Politics and War

1988 • 349 citations

Extended deterrence and the prevention of war

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Explaining Technical Change

1984 • 261 citations

The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective.

1979 • 248 citations

Extended Deterrence and the Prevention of War

1988 • 243 citations

What Is History?

1962 • 240 citations

ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY

1963 • 231 citations

Railroads and American Economic Growth.

1966 • 215 citations

The Essential Irrelevance of Nuclear Weapons: Stability in the Postwar World

1988 • 213 citations

Railroads and American Economic Growth

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The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes

1979 • 204 citations

Civil-Military Relations and the Cult of the Offensive, 1914 and 1984

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Logic and Society: Contraditions and Possible Worlds.

1980 • 163 citations

Hume and the Problem of Causation.

1985 • 126 citations

The Possible and the actual : readings in the metaphysics of modality

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Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin, by George F. Kennan

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The Long Peace

1987 • 100 citations

War and Misperception

1989 • 92 citations

Social Foundations of Political Order in Interwar Europe

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“New” and Traditional Approaches to Economic History and Their Interdependence

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War: Controlling Escalation

1978 • 84 citations

The Rise of Bureaucratic Authoritarianism in South Korea

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1914 Revisited: Allies, Offense, and Instability

1986 • 81 citations

War and Misperception

1988 • 78 citations

The Struggle for Mastery in Europe

1955 • 77 citations

Causal Explanation and Model Building in History, Economics, and the New Economic History

1977 • 75 citations

War

1977 • 73 citations

Retreat From Doomsday

1989 • 70 citations

Danger and Survival

1988 • 65 citations

Causal Explanation and Model Building in History, Economics, and the New Economic History

1976 • 62 citations

Hume and the Problem of Causation.

1983 • 52 citations

Democracy from Above: The Political Origins of Military Dictatorship in Brazil

1987 • 39 citations

Causes, Conditions, and Causal Importance

1982 • 23 citations

Hegemons, IOs, and markets: the case of the substitution account

1984 • 22 citations

Possible Worlds in Historical Explanation

1976 • 21 citations

Containment, Soviet behavior, and grand strategy

1981 • 21 citations

Hypothetical History

1969 • 12 citations

Competing Images of the Soviet Union

1987 • 9 citations

Beyond Positivism: A Research Program for Philosophy of History

1981 • 8 citations

Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin

1961 • 7 citations

Conceptual Anomalies in Economics and Statistics: Lessons from the Social Experiment.

1990 • 7 citations

II. Elster on counterfactuals

1980 • 5 citations