ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a novel methodological analysis of participatory experiments. We begin with a brief overview of the rise of participatory research in social sciences, followed by a general discussion on the philosophical rationales of participatory approaches, based on the arguments from underdetermination and inductive risks. We then develop a methodological framework for participatory experiments, which distinguishes two notions of control, epistemic and political. We provide a case study of Randomized Field Experiments on child immunization, and how integrating participatory methods into such experiments could improve both epistemic and political control.
