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On boxes and arrows: cognitive maps as a method for actor-centered process tracing
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Abstract Process tracing as a method in comparative politics usually aims at reconstructing socio-political macro processes. This entails the risk of structuralist or functionalist short-circuiting, i.e. the results-driven ascription of actors’ preferences and strategies. To avoid this, one has to take actor... view more
Process tracing as a method in comparative politics usually aims at reconstructing socio-political macro processes. This entails the risk of structuralist or functionalist short-circuiting, i.e. the results-driven ascription of actors’ preferences and strategies. To avoid this, one has to take actors and their particular logics of thought and action seriously. The article presents the cognitive map as a way to ground macro-political process tracing via actor-centered micro analyses. Two cognitive maps taken from an analysis of the indigenous movement in Ecuador are used to discuss the added value, the possibilities and the limits of this methodological tool.... view less
Keywords
comparative political science; methodology; cognitive learning theory; case study; Ecuador; cognition
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Free Keywords
Wissenschaftsgebiete; wissenschaftliche Methode; Instrument (Verfahren); Autochthone
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 131-153
Journal
Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft : Comparative Governance and Politics, 6 (2012) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12286-010-0087-5
ISSN
1865-2646
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
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