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The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology
Collier, David, Robson Professor in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Brady, Henry E., Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science and the Goldman School of Public Policy, and Director of the Survey Research Center, UC DATA, and California Census Research Data Center, University of California, Berkeley
Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M., Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Director of the Program in Statistics Methodology, Ohio State University
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928654-6
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009




10 Causation and Explanation in Social Science
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199286546.003.0010

Henry E. Brady
Abstract: Causality – Counterfactuals – Exploring Three Basic Questions about Causality – The Humean and Neo-Humean Approach to Causation – Counterfactual Definition of Causation – Experimentation and the Manipulation Approach to Causation – Pre-emption and the Mechanism Approach to Causation – Four Approaches to Causality – Going beyond the Neyman—Rubin— Holland Conditions for Causation

Keywords: methodology, cause,

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Full Book Contents
I Introduction
1 Political Science Methodology
II Approaches to Social Science Methodology
2 Normative Methodology
3 Meta-Methodology: Clearing the Underbrush
4 Agent-Based Modeling
III Concepts and Measurement
5 Concepts, Theories, and Numbers: A Checklist for Constructing, Evaluating, and Using Concepts or Quantitative Measures
6 Measurement
7 Typologies: Forming Concepts and Creating Categorical Variables
8 Measurement Versus Calibration: A Set-Theoretic Approach
9 The Evolving Influence of Psychometrics in Political Science
IV Causality and Explanation in Social Research
10 Causation and Explanation in Social Science
11 The Neyman— Rubin Model of Causal Inference and Estimation Via Matching Methods
12 On Types of Scientific Enquiry: the Role of Qualitative Reasoning
13 Studying Mechanisms To Strengthen Causal Inferences In Quantitative Research
V Experiments, Quasi-Experiments, and Natural Experiments
14 Experimentation in Political Science
15 Field Experiments and Natural Experiments
VI Quantitative Tools for Descriptive and Causal Inference: General Methods
16 Survey Methodology
17 Endogeneity and Structural Equation Estimation in Political Science
18 Structural Equation Models
19 Time-Series Analysis
20 Time-Series Cross-Section Methods
21 Bayesian Analysis
VII Quantitative Tools for Descriptive and Causal Inference: Special Topics
22 Discrete Choice Methods
23 Survival Analysis
24 Cross-Level/Ecological Inference
25 Empirical Models of Spatial Inter-Dependence
26 Multilevel Models
VIII Qualitative Tools for Descriptive and Causal Inference
27 Counterfactuals and Case Studies
28 Case Selection for Case-Study Analysis: Qualitative and Quantitative Techniques
29 Interviewing and Qualitative Field Methods: Pragmatism and Practicalities
30 Process Tracing: a Bayesian Perspective
31 Case-Oriented Configurational Research: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), Fuzzy Sets, and Related Techniques
32 Comparative-Historical Analysis in Contemporary Political Science
33 Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
IX Organizations, Institutions, and Movements in the Field of Methodology
34 Qualitative and Multimethod Research: Organizations, Publication, and Reflections on Integration
35 Quantitative Methodology
36 Forty Years of Publishing in Quantitative Methodology
37 The EITM Approach: Origins and Interpretations
Index
 
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