Section outline
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Tracking causal mechanisms in a qualitative style, analysing causality within cases – methods of process tracing and congruence analysis.
Compulsory Reading (60pp):
- Evangelista, Matthew. 2015. Explaining the Cold War’s End: Process Tracing All the Way Down? In Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool, edited by Bennett, Andrew and Jeffrey T. Checkel. Cambridge: CUP, 153-185 (Chapter 6).
- George, Alexander L., and Andrew Bennett. 2005. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 226-254 (Chapter 9 The Congruence Method).