Studying Mechanisms To Strengthen Causal Inferences In Quantitative Research

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Income Inequality and its Consequences for Life Satisfaction: What Role do Social Cognitions Play? (2012, background): “The understanding of the social “mechanisms” (Hedström 2008) that transform macro-phenomena into individual outcomes is central to any sociological study.”
Integration of Financial and Management Accounting Systems: The Mediating Influence of a Consistent Financial Language on Controllership Effectiveness (2011, background): “…performance of accounting functions” (p. 92) by first explicating and then analyzing the technical as well as the communication-based causal inferences between MAS design and controllership effectiveness, as suggested by Hedström (2008) in his process-based approach on studying social mechanisms.”
Causal logics and mechanisms in policy design: How and why adopting a mechanistic perspective can improve policy design (2019, background): “…Elster (1989), studies have sought to apply mechanistic explanatory logic to both political science and sociology, for example including Abbott (2007), Gerring (2007), Gross (2009), Hedström (2008), Hedström and Swedberg (1998), Mahoney (2001), Mayntz (2004), Schmidt (2006), and Tilly (2001).”