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Rosa W. Runhardt – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
This article uses the interventionist theory of causation, a counterfactual theory taken from philosophy of science, to strengthen causal analysis in process tracing research. Causal claims from process tracing are re-expressed in terms of so-called hypothetical interventions, and concrete evidential tests are proposed which are shown to…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Statistical Inference, Intervention, Investigations