Process Tracing and Causal Inference

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Process Tracing and Contribution Analysis: A Combined Approach to Generative Causal Inference for Impact Evaluation (2014, unknown): “A general difference with statistical methods is that, in PT, the ability of single observations to act as evidence, evaluated in a context-sensitive manner, is much more important than the number of pieces of evidence collected (Bennett 2008).6 The quantity of observations can affect the strength o”
Understanding the protein transition: The rise of plant-based meat substitutes (2020, background): “A key step in process tracing is the development of detailed descriptions of key events in several points in time (Brady and Collier, 2010; Bennett, 2010).”
Going Where the Money Is: Strategies for Taxing Economic Elites in Unequal Democracies (2013, methodology): “Process tracing therefore resembles Bayesian analysis, where the researcher asks how surprising the evidence would be if a hypothesis were correct (Bennett, 2010).”