Mechanisms in the Analysis of Social Macro-Phenomena

By R. Mayntz. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Time Will Tell? Temporality and the Analysis of Causal Mechanisms and Processes (2011, background): “Whether belief formation, policy transformation, or the reproduction of power, mechanisms take place in time (Mayntz, 2004).”
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).”
Securitization as a causal mechanism (2011, background): “First, and in contrast to mechanisms, an intervening variable ‘is added to increase the total variance explained in a multivariate analysis’, but that is different from providing the links in a process (Mayntz, 2004: 245).”
The Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment: A Literature Review (2006, background): “It would therefore be more useful to assign the 'means' of welfare state retrenchment more explicitly to the analytical category of 'causal mechanisms' (cf. Mayntz 2004).”
The international sources of policy convergence: explaining the spread of environmental policy innovations (2005, background): “…differences among them, by identifying within those episodes robust mechanisms of relatively general scope’ (Tilly 2001: 24; see also Hedström and Swedberg 1998) we conceive of mechanisms as ‘recurrent processes linking specified initial conditions and a specific outcome’ (Mayntz 2004: 241).”
Studying Mechanisms To Strengthen Causal Inferences In Quantitative Research (2008, background): “Elster 1999; Gambetta 1998; Glennan 1996; Hedström and Swedberg 1998; Karlsson 1958; Little 1991; Mahoney 2001; Mayntz 2004; Mcadam, Tarrow and Tilly 2001; Pawson 2000; Salmon 1984; Schelling 1998).”
Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials. Keynote presentation. (2016, methodology): “A challenge in operationalising Ostrom’s SES framework concerns the ‘interaction’ category (McGinnis and Ostrom, 2014).”
Breaking New Paths: Theory and Method in Path Dependence Research (2013, background): “In this context, nomothetical implies that knowledge takes the form of theoretical mechanisms or propositions (i.e., mechanisms expressed in law-like statements – see Bunge (1997) or Mayntz (2004)).”
Mechanisms of Political Radicalization: Pathways Toward Terrorism (2008, methodology): “We must immediately acknowledge that the idea of mechanism is somewhat different in different domains of social science, sometimes with conflicting definitions used within a single discipline.(1,2) Here we use mechanism in the general sense traditionally employed in Psychology: ‘‘the means or manner”
Assembling an experimentalist regime: Transnational governance interactions in the forest sector (2014, background): “For an overview of the social-science literature on explanation through mechanisms, see Mayntz (2004). ii www.fsc.org, www.pefc.org, respectively, accessed May 1, 2011. iii http://www.pefc.org/images/stories/documents/external/certification_timber_trade_FD.pdf. iv Except where otherwise indicated,…”