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This handbook provides a critical review and user’s guide to conducting and reporting process tracing studies of decision making. Each chapter covers a specif

A Handbook of Process Tracing Methods demonstrates how to better understand decision outcomes by studying decision processes, through the introduction of a numb

This book provides empirically grounded conceptual, design and practical advice on conducting process tracing, a key method of qualitative research.

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