FYI From: eusa <[email protected]> on behalf of "Figliulo, Joseph A" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, April 28, 2017 at 11:16 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: ICPSR Short Course in “Process-tracing methods
ICPSR Short Course in “Process-tracing methods” Three-day module – June 19 – 21, 2017 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Derek Beach, University of Aarhus, Denmark ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) Course goals The aim of this intensive three-day course is to provide participants with a good working understanding of the core elements of process-tracing as a distinct social science case study method, enabling you to utilize it in your own research. The course will develop its relative strengths and limitations, and how it can be combined productively with other methods in multi-method designs. The course will combine lectures and discussions with group work on exercises and individual work using your own research project. The course develops the two core elements of process-tracing, focusing first on the theory-side by assessing what we are actually 'tracing' using process-tracing methods (causal mechanisms), and second, how we are able to make evidence-based causal inferences using within-case, 'mechanistic' evidence. The final session deals with how process-tracing can be combined with other case-based designs like small-n comparative methods. For more practical information, please see: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/courses/0215<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.icpsr.umich.edu%2Ficpsrweb%2Fsumprog%2Fcourses%2F0215&data=01%7C01%7Ceusa%40pitt.edu%7C23d6183bf59e4ce12eed08d48e461ebf%7C9ef9f489e0a04eeb87cc3a526112fd0d%7C1&sdata=fc6O4ZYIIKTzUTimvYc8m4UKZRtMki0QR3L68DS8n80%3D&reserved=0> Detailed course description Course prerequisites: Participants should have encountered the basics of qualitative, case study research methods (e.g. Goertz and Mahoney (2012) A Tale of Two Cultures is a good starting point). Day 1 – June 19 9 am - 12 am Session 1 - an introduction to recent developments in case-based research • Beach and Pedersen (2016) Causal Case Studies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Chapters 1, 2. • Mahoney, James. 2008. Toward a Unified Theory of Causality. Comparative Political Studies 41(4/5): 412-436. 9.00 - 9.30 - Introduction 9.30 - 10.30 - Introductory lecture 10.45 - 12.00 - continue lecture + discussion 1 pm - 5 pm Session 2 - working with theories of causal mechanisms • Beach and Pedersen (2016) Causal Case Studies: Foundations and Guidelines for Comparing, Matching and Tracing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Chapters 3 and 4. 1.00 - 2.30 - lecture on what causal mechanisms are (theorizing them) 2.45 - 5.00 - groupwork and discussion ** Group work on mechanisms ** Day 2 – June 20 9 am - 12 am Session 3 - making inferences with mechanistic, within-case evidence • Beach and Pedersen (2016) Causal Case Studies: Foundations and Guidelines for Comparing, Matching and Tracing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Chapter 6. • Doyle, Arthur Connan (1894) Silver Blaze can be downloaded free at: http://www.wesjones.com/doyle1.htm 9.00 - 10.30 - Lecture 10.45 - 12.00 - group work ** Groupwork - Sherlock Holmes ** 1 pm - 5 pm Session 4 - improving empirical tests • Tannenwald, Nina (1999) ‘The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative Basis of Nuclear Non-Use’, International Organization, 53(3): 433-468. 1.00 - 2.30 - lecture on operationalizing tests 2.45 - 5.00 - groupwork and discussion ** Groupwork - Tannenwald ** Day 3 – June 21 9 am - 12 am Session 5- Process-tracing designs • Beach and Pedersen (2016) Causal Case Studies: Foundations and Guidelines for Comparing, Matching and Tracing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Chapter 9. • Michael Koss (2015) ‘The Origins of Parliamentary Agenda Control.’, West European Politics, 38(5): 1062-1085. 9.00 - 10.30 - Lecture - different types of designs 10.45 - 12.00 - group work ** Groupwork - Koss ** 1 pm - 5 pm Session 6 - Combining process-tracing with other methods • Lieberman (2005) ‘Nested Analysis as a Mixed-Method Strategy for Comparative Research.’, American Political Science Review, Vol. 99, No. 3, pp. 435-451. • Beach and Rohlfing (2015) 'Integrating Cross-case Analyses and Process Tracing in Set-Theoretic Research.', Sociological Methods and Research. Online first. • Beach and Pedersen (2016) 'Selecting Appropriate Cases when Tracing Causal Mechanisms.', Sociological Methods and Research, Online first. 1.00 - 2.30 - lecture on case selection and nesting 2.45 - 4.00 - groupwork and discussion 4.00 - 5.00 - wrapping up ** Groupwork - case selection ** About the instructor: Derek Beach is a professor of Political Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, where he teaches case study methodology, international relations, and European integration. He has authored articles, chapters, and books on case study research methodology, international negotiations, referendums, and European integration, and co-authored the books Process-tracing Methods: Foundations and Guidelines and Causal Case Study Methods (both with University of Michigan Press). He has taught qualitative case study methods at ECPR and IPSA summer and winter schools, held short courses at the APSA annual meeting on Process-tracing and case-based research, and numerous workshops and seminars on qualitative methods throughout the world. He is also an academic co-convenor of the ECPR Methods Schools. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
