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SUMMARY:How does process tracing work? - Christopher Clarke (CRASSH Cambri
 dge and Erasmus University\, Rotterdam)
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CONTACT:Helen Curry
DESCRIPTION:Political scientists working in the qualitative tradition clai
 m to be using a method that they call process tracing. They claim that pro
 cess tracing is a method of causal inference similar to that used by histo
 rians\, a method that has a distinct logic from the statistical logic used
  by social scientists working in the quantitative tradition. But it's uncl
 ear what this logic is. I suggest that there are two types of process trac
 ing: (a) process tracing to test a 'start-end' hypothesis\, and (b) proces
 s tracing as an end in itself. While the logic of this first type of proce
 ss tracing is easy enough to uncover\, the logic of this second type of pr
 ocess tracing is more mysterious. I make some tentative proposals. The ups
 hot is that\, although process tracing is indeed a distinctive method of c
 ausal inference\, it has much more in common with quantitative/statistical
  inference than its advocates currently recognize.
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