Context and Causal Mechanisms in Political Analysis

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Securitization as a causal mechanism (2011, background): “Instead, ‘mechanisms describe the relationships or the actions among the units of analysis or in the cases of study’ (Falleti and Lynch, 2009: 1147).”
Causal logics and mechanisms in policy design: How and why adopting a mechanistic perspective can improve policy design (2019, background): “This is a process which involves complex causal chains centred around existing policy behaviours and policy-making contexts, and policy interventions which trigger – intentionally, consciously or not – policy mechanisms which affecting ‘target’ behaviour, changing it in some new direction (Falleti a”