Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science¶
Evera, S. V. (1997). Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science.
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- Process-Tracing Evidence Table
- The named discipline here is Van Evera's battery of tests — hoop, smoking-gun, and doubly-decisive — whose whole purpose is to force the analyst to specify in advance what would confirm or eliminate each rival.
This sourceClassifies hoop, smoking-gun, and doubly-decisive tests by what predicted evidence would corroborate or eliminate a hypothesis and its rivals.
- The named discipline here is Van Evera's battery of tests — hoop, smoking-gun, and doubly-decisive — whose whole purpose is to force the analyst to specify in advance what would confirm or eliminate each rival.
- Rival Explanation Discriminator
- Its strength mirrors the logic of the crucial case: a single decisive observation can eliminate an explanation that endless confirming cases never touch, because confirmation is cheap and elimination is not.
This sourceUses crucial-case tests to discriminate among rival explanations, including tests whose failed implication can eliminate a candidate explanation.
- Its strength mirrors the logic of the crucial case: a single decisive observation can eliminate an explanation that endless confirming cases never touch, because confirmation is cheap and elimination is not.
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