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Process Tracing and Causal Mechanisms
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“The result of viewing mechanisms as intervening variables is that the actual causal process itself is grey-boxed (Bunge, 1997: 428; Waldner, 2012).”
From It's all about mechanisms – what process-tracing case studies should be tracing (2016) · cites this paper as Waldner, 2012
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“Yet both in effect transform the within-case study of causal processes into a cross-case analysis of patterns of variation at a lower level of aggregation, where we lose focus on the process between the variables (Mahoney, 2001: 578; Mayntz, 2004:244-245; Hedström and Ylikoski, 2010: 5152; Waldner, 2012: 76-77).”
From It's all about mechanisms – what process-tracing case studies should be tracing (2016) · cites this paper as Waldner, 2012
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Between X and Y: how process tracing contributes to opening the black box of causality
Trampusch, C., & Palier, B. (2016) · New Political Economy · doi:10.1080/13563467.2015.1134465 · Cited by 361
Process Tracing and Historical Explanation
Mahoney, J. (2015) · Security Studies · doi:10.1080/09636412.2015.1036610 · Cited by 296
Gerring, J. (2017) · Annual Review of Political Science · doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-092415-024158 · Cited by 443
Process Tracing: From Philosophical Roots to Best PracticesPreprint
Checkel, J. T., & Bennett, A. (2011) · SSRN Electronic Journal · Cited by 200
Selecting Appropriate Cases When Tracing Causal Mechanisms
Beach, D., & Pedersen, R. B. (2018) · Sociological Methods & Research · doi:10.1177/0049124115622510 · Cited by 198
Metadata
- Authors
- Waldner, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Virginia (US)
- Corresponding author
- Waldner, David
- ORCID
- Waldner, David
- Venue
- Oxford Handbooks Online
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2012-08-06
- OpenAlex
- W183786351
- Cited by
- 131
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 4.51
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Keywords
- process tracing, causal mechanisms, causal explanation, causal inference, qualitative research
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