Welcome to the Experimental Politics webpage!
(please note that this page is still under construction)
We are a research group at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and we
study Policy in Science, Technology and Education. Our work is based on three
assumptions:
1) Science and Technology are taking increasingly important roles in our lives. This poses great opportunities but also new risks and challenges;
2) Politicians and the society should understand and be able to rationally analyze those risks and challenges;
3) The best way to understand them is by using the tools of Science: critical thinking and the scientific method
We use a broad range of approaches (from controlled experiments to complex systems analysis, from surveys to social network data mining) to ask how scientists and the scientific method can help people and their representatives make better decisions.
Our ultimate goals are to engage scientists and researchers in the policy-making process and to contribute to a more knowledgeable and critical society.
1) Science and Technology are taking increasingly important roles in our lives. This poses great opportunities but also new risks and challenges;
2) Politicians and the society should understand and be able to rationally analyze those risks and challenges;
3) The best way to understand them is by using the tools of Science: critical thinking and the scientific method
We use a broad range of approaches (from controlled experiments to complex systems analysis, from surveys to social network data mining) to ask how scientists and the scientific method can help people and their representatives make better decisions.
Our ultimate goals are to engage scientists and researchers in the policy-making process and to contribute to a more knowledgeable and critical society.
