TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bennett,Andrew
AU  - Checkel,Jeffrey T.
TI  - Process tracing: from metaphor to analytic tool 
T2  - Strategies for social inquiry
SN  - 9781139858472 (ebook)
AV  - JA71 .P756 2015
U1  - 320.01 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Political science
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Causation
KW  - Case method
KW  - Qualitative research
KW  - Social sciences
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - Advances in qualitative methods and recent developments in the philosophy of science have led to an emphasis on explanation via reference to causal mechanisms. This book argues that the method known as process tracing is particularly well suited to developing and assessing theories about such mechanisms. The editors begin by establishing a philosophical basis for process tracing - one that captures mainstream uses while simultaneously being open to applications by interpretive scholars. Equally important, they go on to establish best practices for individual process-tracing accounts - how micro to go, when to start (and stop), and how to deal with the problem of equifinality. The contributors then explore the application of process tracing across a range of subfields and theories in political science. This is an applied methods book which seeks to shrink the gap between the broad assertion that'process tracing is good' and the precise claim'this is an instance of good process tracing'
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