Causality in Policy Studies : : a Pluralist Toolbox / / edited by Alessia Damonte, Fedra Negri.
This volume provides a methodological toolbox for conducting policy research. Recognizing that policy research spans various academic disciplines, each of which takes a different view on causality, the volume introduces a methodologically pluralistic approach to policy studies. Each chapter clarifie...
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| Superior document: | Texts in Quantitative Political Analysis, |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Texts in Quantitative Political Analysis,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: the Elephant of Causation and the Blind Sages
- 2. Causation in the Social Realm
- 3. Counterfactuals with Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Variation
- 4. Correlation is not Causation, yet… Matching and Weighting for Better Counterfactuals
- 5. Getting the Most Out of Surveys: Multilevel Regression And Poststratification
- 6. Pathway analysis, causal mediation and the identification of causal mechanisms
- 7. Proof by Testing Joint Sufficiency Twice: Explanatory Qualitative Comparative Analysis
- 8. Causal Inference and Policy Evaluation from Case Studies using Bayesian Process Tracing
- 9. Exploring Interventions ogn Social Outcomes with in Silico, Agent-Based Experiments
- 10. The Many Threats from Mechanistic Heterogeneity that Can Spoil Multi-Method Research.