Add to ORKGThe identification of cause-and-effect relationships plays an indispensable role in policy research, both for applied problem solving and for building theories of policy processes. Historical process tracing has emerged as a promising method for revealing causal mechanisms at a level of precision unattainable through statistical techniques. Yet historical analyses often produce dauntingly complex causal expla-nations, with numerous factors emerging as necessary but insufficient causes of an outcome. This article describes an approach that renders complex causal narratives more analytically tractable by establishing measurement criteria for ranking the relative importance of component causes. By focusing on subjectively useful measurement at...
In a backlash against the prevalence of statistical methods, recently social scientists have focused...
To what use can causal claims established in good policy studies be put? We isolate two reasons infe...
Would the third-wave democracies have been democratized without prior modernization? What proportion...
The identification of cause-and-effect relationships plays an indispensable role in policy research,...
The identification of cause-and-effect relationships plays an indispensable role in policy research,...
Causal process tracing (CPT) has emerged as an important method of causal inference in qualitative ...
Causal mechanisms are an explanatory rather than predictive tool used to unpack the “black boxes” de...
For nearly 20 years, the four edited volumes of Theories of the Policy Process (TPP) have reviewed a...
Most scholars now agree that process tracing, as a distinct social science method, involves tracing ...
McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly (henceforth MTT) persuasively argue that causal mechanisms can be measured,...
When Alexander George and I wrote our 2005 book, Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social S...
To what use can causal claims established in good policy studies be put? We isolate two reasons infe...
Many areas of political science focus on causal questions. Evidence from statistical analyses is oft...
Recent years have seen an increasing focus in political science and international relations (IR) res...
In this thesis I investigate causal inquiry in the social sciences, drawing on examples from various...
In a backlash against the prevalence of statistical methods, recently social scientists have focused...
To what use can causal claims established in good policy studies be put? We isolate two reasons infe...
Would the third-wave democracies have been democratized without prior modernization? What proportion...
The identification of cause-and-effect relationships plays an indispensable role in policy research,...
The identification of cause-and-effect relationships plays an indispensable role in policy research,...
Causal process tracing (CPT) has emerged as an important method of causal inference in qualitative ...
Causal mechanisms are an explanatory rather than predictive tool used to unpack the “black boxes” de...
For nearly 20 years, the four edited volumes of Theories of the Policy Process (TPP) have reviewed a...
Most scholars now agree that process tracing, as a distinct social science method, involves tracing ...
McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly (henceforth MTT) persuasively argue that causal mechanisms can be measured,...
When Alexander George and I wrote our 2005 book, Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social S...
To what use can causal claims established in good policy studies be put? We isolate two reasons infe...
Many areas of political science focus on causal questions. Evidence from statistical analyses is oft...
Recent years have seen an increasing focus in political science and international relations (IR) res...
In this thesis I investigate causal inquiry in the social sciences, drawing on examples from various...
In a backlash against the prevalence of statistical methods, recently social scientists have focused...
To what use can causal claims established in good policy studies be put? We isolate two reasons infe...
Would the third-wave democracies have been democratized without prior modernization? What proportion...