Over the past half century, scholars in the interdisciplinary field of judgment and decision
making have amassed a trove of findings, theories, and prescriptions regarding the …

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 …

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what
many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a …

“A major contribution to both the pragmatist renaissance and the transnational turn toward
theorizing in qualitative research.”—Adele E. Clarke, author of Situational Analysis …

Many have advocated for collaborative governance and the participation of citizens and
stakeholders on the basis that it can improve the environmental outcomes of public decision …

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new
post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the …

Summary (250 words) Process-tracing is a research method for tracing causal mechanisms
using detailed, within-case empirical analysis of how a causal process plays out in an actual …

An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research
Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to …

This article maps the methodological debate on process tracing and discusses the diverse
variants of process tracing in order to highlight the commonalities beyond diversity and …

Why do some countries fall apart, often along their ethnic fault lines, while others have held
together over decades and centuries, despite governing an equally diverse population …