Respond to the following question:
Are processes and mechanisms both necessary for a ‘complete’ causal account?
Look for definitions in the text. Your essay should contain a clearly stated argument/thesis (e.g., “In this essay, I argue that…”).
THE ESSAY MUST BE WRITTEN ONLY AND ONLY BY USING THE 17 FOLLOWING SOURCES
1- Van Evera, Guide to methods for students of political science, pp. 1- 45.
2- Schwartz-Shea and Yanow, Chapters 2 and 3
3- King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing social inquiry: Scientific inference in qualitative research, Princeton University Press, 1994, 76-91
4- Hall, “Aligning Ontology and Methodology” in Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences
5- Mahoney and Goertz, “Methodological Rorschach Tests,”
6- March and Lave, “Model Making”
7- Friedman, “Methodology of Positive Economics”
8- Geertz, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cock-fight”
9- Tilly, “Reasons Why”
10- Seawright and Gerring, “Case selection Techniques in Case Study Research,”
11- Geddes. “How the cases you choose affect the answers you get: Selection bias in comparative politics.”
12-Van Evera, Stephen. Guide to methods for students of political science, pp. 77-88.
13- Rueschemeyer, “Can One or a Few Cases Yield Theoretical Gains” in Comparative historical analysis in the social sciences
14- Collier, “Understanding Process Tracing”
15- Bennett and Checkel, “Process tracing: from philosophical roots to best practices,” in Bennett and Checkel,Process tracing
16- Pouliot, “Practice Tracing” in Bennett and Checkel, Process tracing.
17- Mayntz, “Mechanisms in the Analysis of Social Macro-Phenomena”