Process tracing of extensive and intensive processes

Autor: Tulia G. Falleti
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: New Political Economy. 21:455-462
ISSN: 1469-9923
1356-3467
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2015.1135550
Popis: This essay briefly analyzes the introduction of process tracing to the political science and political economy methodological toolkit. It then proposes a theory-guided variant of process tracing and distinguishes between its application in extensive and intensive type of processes. It argues that the comparative advantage of process tracing vis-a-vis other social sciences research methods lies in its potential to uncover the causal mechanisms that link the constitutive events of intensive type of processes. It shows that theory-guided process tracing of intensive processes can be successfully applied to illustrate, test and produce theory.
Databáze: OpenAIRE