Readings

Required

  • Collier, David, 1993, The Comparative Method
  • Slater, Dan and Ziblatt, Daniel, 2013, The Enduring Indispensability of the Controlled Comparison, Comparative Political Studies
  • Hall, Peter, 2007, Systematic Process Tracing: When and How to Use it, European Political Science
  • Falleti, Tulia G., 2006, Theory-Guided Process-Tracing in Comparative Politics: Something Old, Something New

Additional Readings

  • Geddes, Barbara, How the Cases you Choose Affect the Answers you get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics
  • Seawright, Jason and Gerring, John, 2008, Case Selection Techniques in Case Study Research: A Menu of Qualitative and Quantitative Options
  • Sekhon, Jasjeet S., Quality Meets Quantity: Case Studies, Conditional Probability, and Counterfactuals
  • Bates et al 1997, 2000, The Analytical Narrative Project, American Political Science Review, 94:3
  • Collier, 2011, Understanding Process Tracing, Political Science and Politics 44:4
  • Brady, Henry E., 2010, Data-Set Observations versus Causal-Process Observations; The 2000 U.S. Presidential Election

Lecture Slides

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