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tracing the progress of process tracing
In: European political science: EPS, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 20-30
ISSN: 1682-0983
Building on a Lakatosian approach that sees Social Science as an endeavour that confronts rival theories with systematic empirical observations, this article responds to probing questions that have been raised about the appropriate ways in which to conduct systematic process analysis and comparative enquiry. It explores varieties of process tracing, the role of interpretation in case studies, and the relationship between process tracing and comparative historical analysis. Adapted from the source document.
Understanding Process Tracing
In: PS - political science & politics, Volume 44, Issue 4, p. 823-830
ISSN: 1537-5935
AbstractProcess tracing is a fundamental tool of qualitative analysis. This method is often invoked by scholars who carry out within-case analysis based on qualitative data, yet frequently it is neither adequately understood nor rigorously applied. This deficit motivates this article, which offers a new framework for carrying out process tracing. The reformulation integrates discussions of process tracing and causal-process observations, gives greater attention to description as a key contribution, and emphasizes the causal sequence in which process-tracing observations can be situated. In the current period of major innovation inquantitativetools for causal inference, this reformulation is part of a wider, parallel effort to achieve greater systematization ofqualitativemethods. A key point here is that these methods can add inferential leverage that is often lacking in quantitative analysis. This article is accompanied by online teaching exercises, focused on four examples from American politics, two from comparative politics, three from international relations, and one from public health/epidemiology.
Tracing the Progress of Process Tracing
In: European political science: EPS, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 20-30
ISSN: 1682-0983
Process tracing in clinical judgment
In: Behavioral science, Volume 19, Issue 5, p. 298-313
Process tracing of extensive and intensive processes
In: New political economy, Volume 21, Issue 5, p. 455-462
ISSN: 1469-9923
Chapter 25 Process Tracing: An Analyticist Approach
This contribution develops process tracing (PT) as a method for Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). It explains what it takes to conduct PT, trace a mechanism, and draw conclusions on that basis. Importantly, I lay out an analyticist approach to PT that is amendable to more actor-centered and interpretivist studies. This approach treats mechanisms as akin to Weberian ideal types: abstract constructs that are adduced from multiple concrete, contextually embedded, and largely idiosyncratic instantiations. This creates space for agency and contingency and allows us to a) study how a mechanism or concatenation of mechanisms led to a particular outcome; b) assess how the mechanism(s) functioned in a given context; and c) abstract from the specific instantiation(s) more general propositions about foreign policy making. In an empirical example of state employment of Private Military and Security Contractors, drawing on interpretivist and narrative-based understandings of FPA, I illustrate what this means in practice.
Mechanisms, Bayesianism, and process tracing
In: New political economy, Volume 21, Issue 5, p. 493-499
ISSN: 1469-9923
Process Tracing and Security Studies
In: Security studies, Volume 24, Issue 2, p. 219-227
ISSN: 1556-1852
Process Tracing and Historical Explanation
In: Security studies, Volume 24, Issue 2, p. 200-218
ISSN: 1556-1852
Comparative Process Tracing in Housing Studies
In: International journal of housing policy, Volume 11, Issue 4, p. 395-414
ISSN: 1949-1255
The Discovery of Causal Mechanisms: Extractive Qualitative Content Analysis as a Tool for Process Tracing
In: Forum qualitative Sozialforschung: FQS = Forum: qualitative social research, Volume 20, Issue 3
ISSN: 1438-5627
Wir möchten mit diesem Artikel zur methodologischen Diskussion über die Eignung qualitativer Methoden für spezifische Zwecke beitragen, indem wir die Rolle der extrahierenden qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse in der Entdeckung kausaler Mechanismen diskutieren. Die empirische Identifizierung kausaler Mechanismen wird in der methodologischen Literatur als Process Tracing bezeichnet. Allerdings wird die Literatur durch die Idee dominiert, Process Tracing würde das Vorhandensein eines hypothetischen Mechanismus testen. Wir betonen dagegen die Entdeckung kausaler Mechanismen auf der Basis einer kausalen Rekonstruktion, wie sie von MAYNTZ (2009 [2002], 2016) vorgeschlagen wurde. Wir identifizieren die extrahierende qualitative Inhaltsanalyse als eine distinkte qualitative Methode und spezifizieren ihr Ergebnis als eine strukturierte Informationsbasis, die für die Rekonstruktion sozialer Situationen und Prozesse genutzt werden kann. Eine solche Informationsbasis ist ein wichtiger Ausgangspunkt für die Kausalanalyse. Wir demonstrieren die Rolle der extrahierenden qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse an einer empirischen Studie von LAUDEL und BIELICK (2018), in der die Mechanismen identifiziert wurden, die zur Entstehung individueller Forschungsprogramme von Nachwuchswissenschaftler_innen führen.
Process-tracing methods: foundations and guidelines
What is process-tracing? -- What are we tracing? -- Theorizing concepts and causal mechanisms -- Case selection and nesting of process-tracing case studies with markus siewert -- Making inferences using mechanistic evidence -- Linking propositions with empirical material?finding and evaluating evidence -- Evaluating the overall probative value of mechanistic evidence -- Theory-testing process-tracing -- Theory-building process-tracing -- Explaining-outcome process-tracing -- References -- Index
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Process Tracing and Qualitative Causal Inference
In: Security studies, Volume 24, Issue 2, p. 239-250
ISSN: 1556-1852
PROCESS TRACING AND PROFESSIONALIZATION OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS
In: Journal of liberty and international affairs, Volume 9, Issue 1, p. 226-241
ISSN: 1857-9760