There’s more than one way to do it. Well, maybe.
This week we will consider some supposed alternatives to the counterfactual theory of causation we have been assuming, and see what the we would do differently under them.
We will also consider ‘process tracing’ as a qualitative tool for investigating causal mechanisms, as a precursor to a general discussion of how we might use additional information in our causal inferences, whether qualitative or quantitative.
Beach Process-Tracing Methods in Social Science (old school PT)
Bennett (2008) ‘Process tracing: A Bayesian perspective.’ The Oxford handbook of political methodology