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The Supreme Court's Discretion: A Century of Policy-Making Power

A Century of Supreme Court Discretion Almost a century ago, in February 1925, Chief Justice William Howard Taft played a pivotal role in persuading Congress to bestow upon the Supreme Court an extraordinary power: the ability to select which cases it would choose to adjudicate. Unlike most courts, which are obligated to address all disputes brought before them, the Supreme Court operates under a…

The Supreme Court's Discretion: A Century of Policy-Making Power

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Process tracing is possible with most-likely and least-likely cases

Process tracing is possible with most-likely and least-likely cases

The idea of most-likely and least-likely cases dates back to Eckstein and was one of the few remaining things in qualitative research there seemed to be no disagreement about because they are considered an asset in causal analysis. In a paper that is advance access, Beach and Pedersen (BP) now argue that process tracing and the analysis of mechanisms does not make sense with most-likely and…

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What do we learn about case studies from follow-up regression analysis?

Most multi-method research (MMR) studies with which I am familiar start with regression analysis (or, in recent years, QCA) and perform the case studies afterward. This is the order recommended by Lieberman in his nested analysis articlewhich, in turn, most probably reflects the widely held view that case studies are only worth doing in MMR when something is going on at the cross-case level.…

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