Process Tracing: Causal Inquiry in Case Studies

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

Process tracing: zkoumání kauzality v případových studiích

Original language description

Process Tracing: Causal Inquiry in Case Studies. This paper addresses process tracing as a tool for studying causality in case studies. The method of process tracing, which is based on explicit specification of a causal mechanism and formalized treatment of empirical evidence, is intensively developed in political science. However, sociology and other social sciences seem to be turning a blind eye to the method. Therefore, the paper strives to familiarize the Czech and Slovak sociological community with this method and to outline the ongoing discussions about its application. The value of process tracing dwells not only in the elaborate frame for standardization of case studies, but also in the related debates reflecting upon a whole range of general methodological issues. This makes process tracing a valuable lesson in contemporary social science methodology and possibilities in non-experimental analysis of causality.

Czech name

Process tracing: zkoumání kauzality v případových studiích

Czech description

Process Tracing: Causal Inquiry in Case Studies. This paper addresses process tracing as a tool for studying causality in case studies. The method of process tracing, which is based on explicit specification of a causal mechanism and formalized treatment of empirical evidence, is intensively developed in political science. However, sociology and other social sciences seem to be turning a blind eye to the method. Therefore, the paper strives to familiarize the Czech and Slovak sociological community with this method and to outline the ongoing discussions about its application. The value of process tracing dwells not only in the elaborate frame for standardization of case studies, but also in the related debates reflecting upon a whole range of general methodological issues. This makes process tracing a valuable lesson in contemporary social science methodology and possibilities in non-experimental analysis of causality.

Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sociológia

ISSN

0049-1225

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

49

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

55-80

UT code for WoS article

000396204200003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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