alterlab-social-science-methods

Process tracing is a qualitative method for causal inference that tests hypotheses by examining diagnostic evidence within cases. This guide provides structured steps and checklists to apply process tracing for rigorous causal analysis.

Designing a QCA study involves configuring crisp, fuzzy, or multi-value sets to identify causal pathways. This guide provides practical implementation steps, templates, and checklists to structure your QCA workflow.

The best way to combine these methods is mapping macro-level discourse patterns onto micro-level interaction sequences. This resource provides conceptual overviews and best-practice guidelines for cross-method integration.

You need social network analysis when your research question involves understanding relationships and structural patterns among actors. This resource provides workflow templates to design your study and collect relational data.

Yes, it covers systematic mapping reviews and program evaluation together, providing structured explanations, checklists, and best-practice guidelines for both evidence synthesis and policy analysis design.

Yes, you can use this to draft a method appendix for a graduate thesis by mapping research questions to suitable methods and generating structured workflows aligned with scholarly standards.