Third-generation theories of revolution pointed to the structural vulnerabilities of regimes as
the basic causes of revolutions. In the last decade, critics of structural theories have argued …

One might argue that political science has gone further than any other social science in
developing a rigorous field of study devoted to qualitative methods. This review article …

Process tracing is a method that aims to trace causal mechanisms as they play out in real-
world cases using in-depth case studies. The analytical focus is on understanding the …

Throughout the twentieth century, much of the population in Latin America lacked access to
social protection. Since the 1990s, however, social policy for millions of outsiders-rural …

Background The need for better methods for evaluation in health research has been widely
recognised. The 'complexity turn'has drawn attention to the limitations of relying on causal …

In this comprehensive reconstruction of causal case study methods, Derek Beach, Rasmus
Brun Pedersen, and their coauthors delineate the ontological and epistemological …

The authors explore three ways of conducting causal analysis in case studies. They draw on
established practices as well as on recent innovations in case study methodology and …

The Office of Research is UNICEF's dedicated research arm. Its prime objectives are to
improve international understanding of issues relating to children's rights and to help …

The remarkable boom and bust of America's housing markets during the first decade of the
twenty-first century now joins the stock market gyrations of the 1920s and the dot-com …

A discussion of the case study method which develops an integrative framework for causal
inference in small-n research. This framework is applied to research design tasks such as …