Generating Usable Knowledge through an Experimental Approach to Public Administration
这篇导言介绍公共管理实验方法专题，说明实验方法如何产生既可信又贴近现实的研究，专题中的十篇文章用实验检验经典理论或非实验研究提出的假设。
Abstract This introduction to the symposium on experimental methods in public administration shows how using experimental methods generates not only research that is empirically credible, but also relates to the real world of public administration. The ten articles in the symposium subject classic public administration theories or hypotheses that have been generated in nonexperimental research to rigorous testing using experimental methods. The first group of articles consists of studies with citizens who interact with government. The second group consists of three studies with public officials .