Process Tracing in Public Administration: The Implications of Practitioner Insights for Methods of Inquiry

• Published in: International journal of public administration Vol. 40; no. 5; pp. 434 - 442
• Main Authors: Charbonneau, Étienne, Henderson, Alexander C., Ladouceur, Benoit, Pichet, Philippe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 16.04.2017; Marcel Dekker, Inc
• Subjects: Academic-practitioners gap; Bureaucracy; Case studies; causal mechanisms; Intelligence; methodology; Police; Police inspectors; Political science; Political scientists; process tracing; Public administration; Research methodology; Research methods; single case study

The field of public administration is often seen as a late adopter of cutting-edge research methods. Related disciplines like political science use more advanced research methods for single or small-n case studies including techniques like process tracing. Many elements of process tracing are analog...