Process Tracing: From Metaphor To Analytic Tool

Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. Process tracing: from philosophical roots to best practices Andrew Bennett and Jeffrey T. Checkel Part II. Process Tracing in Action: 2. Process tracing the effects of ideas Alan M. Jacobs 3. Mechanisms, process, and the study of international institutions Jeffrey T. Checkel 4. Efficient process tracing: analyzing the causal mechanisms of European integration Frank Schimmelfennig 5. What makes process tracing good? Causal mechanisms, causal inference, and the completeness standard in comparative politics David Waldner 6. Explaining the Cold War's end: process tracing all the way down? Matthew Evangelista 7. Process tracing, causal inference, and civil war Jason Lyall Part III. Extensions, Controversies, and Conclusions: 8. Improving process tracing: the case of multi-method research Thad Dunning 9. Practice tracing Vincent Pouliot 10. Beyond metaphors: standards, theory, and the 'where next' for process tracing Jeffrey T. Checkel and Andrew Bennett Appendix. Disciplining our conjectures: systematizing process tracing with Bayesian analysis.