ON THE BASIS OF AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STATE AND ORGANIZED LABOR IN LATIN AMERICA, THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THE CONCEPT OF CORPORATISM CAN BE DISAGGREGATED TO SHED LIGHT ON DIFFERENT POWER RELATIONSHIPS AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS. THE ANALYSIS FOCUSES ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN "INDUCEMENTS" AND "CONSTRAINTS" IN STATE CONTROL OF GROUPS.
In: Symposium on "The Set-Theoretic Comparative Method (STCM): Critical Assessment and the Search for Alternatives." 2014. David Collier, Ed. Qualitative & Multi-Method Research 12(1): 1-51.
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.
