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View article: Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects
Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects Open
This study examines the role of political campaigns in reducing voter susceptibility to framing effects. The case chosen is the 2022 EU defence opt-out referendum in Denmark. Using a novel survey experiment design that exposed voters to ar…
View article: Adopting social process tracing in applied linguistics: Lessons from an English-medium Instruction policy case study
Adopting social process tracing in applied linguistics: Lessons from an English-medium Instruction policy case study Open
Despite English-medium instruction (EMI) being one of the fastest growing phenomena in global higher education, there is still little clarity about what triggers universities to implement it. This is partially due to a lack of tools in EMI…
View article: Moving Towards More Cumulative Knowledge Through the Use of Meso‐Level Theories to Understand How the EU Manages Crisis
Moving Towards More Cumulative Knowledge Through the Use of Meso‐Level Theories to Understand How the EU Manages Crisis Open
This article investigates the EU‐managed crises since 2009. While there have been numerous academic work on how the EU has managed crisis, we contend that existing research is bifurcated into studies that either apply abstract and broad “g…
View article: Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects
Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects Open
This study examines the role of political campaigns in reducing voter susceptibility to framingeffects, focusing on the 2022 EU defense opt-out referendum in Denmark. Unlike prior research, we directly engage with the influence of a real-w…
View article: Working with interviews in Process Tracing evaluation methods
Working with interviews in Process Tracing evaluation methods Open
In this article, we provide practical guidelines for using interviews in Process Tracing evaluation methods. Process Tracing evaluation method employs more disaggregated theories of the causal process, termed a process theory-of-change. Th…
View article: Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects
Campaigns do matter: The impact of campaigns in reducing framing effects Open
This study examines the role of political campaigns in reducing voter susceptibility to framingeffects, focusing on the 2022 EU defense opt-out referendum in Denmark. Unlike prior research, we directly engage with the influence of a real-w…
View article: Why and how do workplaces invest in mental health and wellbeing? A systematic review and process tracing study
Why and how do workplaces invest in mental health and wellbeing? A systematic review and process tracing study Open
In recent years, investment in workplace mental health and wellbeing has grown. However, there is little understanding of how resource allocation decisions are made in such settings. To ensure evaluative research can support resource alloc…
View article: Using Disaggregated Process Theories to Supplement Regression-Based Analysis
Using Disaggregated Process Theories to Supplement Regression-Based Analysis Open
In this contribution, we argue that analysts need to go beyond simple causal graphs in order to reap fully the analytical benefits of using within-case methods such as process tracing as a supplemental tool that can strengthen confidence i…
View article: The European Union Response to the Inflation Reduction Act: An Assessment of the European Council System Beyond Crisis
The European Union Response to the Inflation Reduction Act: An Assessment of the European Council System Beyond Crisis Open
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View article: The Institutional Ingredients of Polycrisis Management: Unpacking European Council’s Handling of the Energy Crisis
The Institutional Ingredients of Polycrisis Management: Unpacking European Council’s Handling of the Energy Crisis Open
This article analyses how the European Council and the institutional infrastructure that supports it have been managing the early stages of the energy crisis. This was the time when the European Council, as the “control room” of EU crisis …
View article: ‘It is like déjà vu all over again’ an inside analysis of the management of EU migration reform
‘It is like déjà vu all over again’ an inside analysis of the management of EU migration reform Open
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View article: The Many Threats from Mechanistic Heterogeneity That Can Spoil Multimethod Research
The Many Threats from Mechanistic Heterogeneity That Can Spoil Multimethod Research Open
The combination of cross-case and within-case analysis in Multi-Method Research (MMR) designs has gained considerable traction in the social sciences over the last decade. One reason for the popularity of MMR is grounded in the idea that d…
View article: Once bitten, twice shy: The overgeneralization trap and epistemic learning after policy failure
Once bitten, twice shy: The overgeneralization trap and epistemic learning after policy failure Open
Why do smart policy makers who try to learn from policy failure end up overgeneralizing these lessons when facing new crises? This article focuses on the policy learning that can come in the wake of perceived policy failure, and the conseq…
View article: Going beyond the single case: Comparative Process Tracing as a tool to enable generalizations about causal processes
Going beyond the single case: Comparative Process Tracing as a tool to enable generalizations about causal processes Open
In this article, we develop Comparative Process Tracing (PT) as a strategy for validating empirically the scope of cases to which process-level generalizations can be made. While PT methods have discussed internal validity, there has been …
View article: New institutional leadership goes viral EU crisis reforms and the coming about of the covid recovery fund
New institutional leadership goes viral EU crisis reforms and the coming about of the covid recovery fund Open
This article reconstructs the coming about of the 750 billion EU Covid Recovery Fund. We provide an embedded process‐tracing analysis of the dynamics from mid‐March 2020, when the idea of ‘Corona‐bonds’ was parachuted onto the Heads’ Agend…
View article: ‘It takes three to tango’: new inter-institutional dynamics in managing major crisis reform
‘It takes three to tango’: new inter-institutional dynamics in managing major crisis reform Open
This paper provides an in-depth reconstruction of the (failed) reform of the EU’sCommon European Asylum System. Even though this was essentially a legislativeprocess, it was characterized by extensive European Council involvement. In fact,…
View article: Integrating Cross-Case Analyses and Process Tracing in Set-Theoretic Research: Strategies and Parameters of Debate
Integrating Cross-Case Analyses and Process Tracing in Set-Theoretic Research: Strategies and Parameters of Debate Open
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the combination of two methods on the basis of set theory. In our introduction and this special issue, we focus on two variants of cross-case set-theoretic methods - Qualitative Compar…
View article: VPT: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come
VPT: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come Open
This has been a difficult review to write. On the one hand, it is important to be constructive and open to new approaches for how to do good process tracing (PT). On the other hand, the proposed “Veil of ignorance Process Tracing” (VPT) at…
View article: ‘It takes three to tango’: new inter-institutional dynamics in managing major crisis reform
‘It takes three to tango’: new inter-institutional dynamics in managing major crisis reform Open
This paper provides an in-depth reconstruction of the (failed) reform of the EU’s Common European Asylum System. Even though this was essentially a legislative process, it was characterized by extensive European Council involvement. In fac…
View article: Political and instrumental leadership in major EU reforms. The role and influence of the EU institutions in setting-up the Fiscal Compact
Political and instrumental leadership in major EU reforms. The role and influence of the EU institutions in setting-up the Fiscal Compact Open
This paper analyses the role and influence of the EU institutions in major reform negotiations. We argue that one of the paradoxes of European Council dominated decision-making has been the enhanced dependence on EU institutions to transla…
View article: Social process tracing - bringing back the social into the process
Social process tracing - bringing back the social into the process Open
Process tracing methods are increasingly popular in the social sciences. At the same time, most existing guidelines miss ‘the social’ when studying political and social processes. In effect, existing guidelines for PT suggest there is litt…
View article: The long shadow of attitudes: differential campaign effects and issue voting in EU referendums
The long shadow of attitudes: differential campaign effects and issue voting in EU referendums Open
Can voters be persuaded by referendum campaigns? This article develops a theoretical model that synthesises the existing literature on campaign effects and issue-voting by arguing that the strength of pre-existing attitudes conditions vote…