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* If you attended our Methods School during the calendar years 2024 or 2025, you qualify for £45 off your course fee.
Sunday 10 July 2016
One-day, five hour course
Room 305
Faculty of Social Sciences
Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies
Lossi 36, Tartu
Hilde van Meegdenburg is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University. Her research focuses on international security and state foreign policy-making with a particular focus on the organisation of foreign aid and military interventions.
Hilde has taught numerous advanced and introductory courses on process tracing and qualitative case studies throughout Europe.
She is currently co-authoring a book with Patrick A. Mello on how to combine Process Tracing methods with Qualitative Comparative Analysis, under contract with Palgrave Macmillan.
@HildemeegProcess-tracing is a within-case method that focuses on tracing causal mechanisms. This course will introduce you to the essentials of this method, its main underlying assumptions, and its applicability. We will discuss what understanding of causality underlies process-tracing, what causal mechanisms are, how we can `trace' them, and what kind of causal inferences we can draw on the bases of a process-tracing study. Moreover, to position PT in the broader methodological field we will look at how PT relates to, but differs from other (larger- and small-N) case study methods.
This introduction to PT will take a hands-on approach, applying the new insights to concrete examples, and, when possible, to the participants' research projects. All participants are expected to have read the indicated literature, and to have familiarised themselves with case study methods more broadly, and process tracing in particular.
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