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New Political Economy Volume 21, 2016 - Issue 5: Process Tracing: the understandings of causal mechanisms, Edited by: Bruno Palier and Christine Trampusch
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It's all about mechanisms – what process-tracing case studies should be tracing

Derek BeachDepartment of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, DenmarkCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 463-472 | Received 16 Nov 2014, Accepted 17 Dec 2015, Published online: 11 Feb 2016

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