Oct 15, 2020
Is anyone familiar with process tracing? This final I want to do would have me do it basically three times, and that doesn’t seem like it may be the most effective use of my time.
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Is anyone familiar with process tracing? This final I want to do would have me do it basically three times, and that doesn’t seem like it may be the most effective use of my time.
People require preregistration, not methods
People require preregistration, not methods
Many APSA 2016 panels and discussions in the Section on Qualitative and Multimethod Research and the Political Methodology Section were centered on the Data Access and Research Transparency (DART) Initiative (probably worth a blog post of its own). Even panels not explicitly dedicated to DART have digressed into this topic, which includes a short exchange between Tasha Fairfield and me in a panel…
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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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The rise of process tracing (in Google Books)
The rise of process tracing (in Google Books)
For what it’s worth, I wanted to see how often ‘process tracing’ is mentioned in the offerings on Google Books. I was just curious and wanted to play around with the ngram R package which allows you to query Google Ngram containing data about Google Books books and retrieve it from within R. (You might as well use the Google Ngram viewer.) The following figure contains the results for the simple…
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Another mistaken criticism of set theory and set-theoretic methods
Another mistaken criticism of set theory and set-theoretic methods
For some time now, a discussion has been raging about the pros and cons of set theory and the use of set-theoretic methods (STM) in the social sciences (e.g., in Sociological Methodology and the APSA Newsletter). Following up on a critical discussion by Paine and a constructive, comparative discussion of STM and regression analysis by Thiem, Baumgartner and Bol (TBB), Comparative Political…
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What Homeland has to do with causal inference in process tracing
What Homeland has to do with causal inference in process tracing
More often than one might expect, television series and films offer excellent illustrations of methodological and methods-related arguments (which is worth a blog post of its own). When I was working on my paper on comparative hypothesis testing in process tracing, I was watching the first season of the terrific TV series, Homeland. As it turned out, a very important element of episode 1.7 (The…
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