Two Distinct Methods Beyond the Statistical Method Writ Small?
Tóm tắt
The questions address the possibilities of a methodology to capture the temporal unfolding of events, which is an aspect difficult to model in statistical analysis but at the core of ambition of process tracing. Peter Hall is encouraged to present his view on the relevance of the study of causal mechanisms in the social sciences.
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