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





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