WORKSHOP: Process Tracing, Counterfactual Analysis, and Active Citation

研讨会：流程追踪、反事实分析和主动引用

• 批准号: 1204466
• 负责人: Colin Elman
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1204466&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Process; Tracing; Counterfactual; Analysis

With regards to intellectual merit, a large segment of the American International Relations sub-field approaches international security through its engagement with World War I. This case serves as the foundation for an extraordinary number of key debates, involving multiple research programs and levels of analysis. This project will demonstrate new approaches to qualitative and multi-method research, which promises more rigorous and replicable scholarship.Most of the key debates which use World War I predate Political Science's recent attention to Data Access and Research Tranparency (DA-RT). Two basic principles underlie the new movement: First, analytical transparency is a prerequisite for research to be considered scientifically credible and legitimate. Second, data becomes more useful when it is made available to others, either in the context of validating prior claims or to undertake new research.Hitherto DA-RT was regarded as the exclusive bailiwick of quantitative approaches. These principles have recently been extended to qualitative and multi-method research, through two related developments. First, the availability of better specificed accounts of both process tracking and counterfactual analysis allow scholars to be explicit about the analytical techniques they used. Second, new infrastructure has been created for the institutionalized sharing of qualititative data. In addition, new standards are being developed for active citations, hyperlinks to digitized primary data which are probative for the credibility of hypothesised causal pathways.This workshop will bring together experts from three relevant epistemic communities: scholars of World War I, qualitative methodologists with expertise in process tracing and counterfactual analysis, and qualitative data archivists working on new active citation practices. They will collectively develop a plan to access and link the original source documentation.With regards to broader impacts, the World War I project will be a highly visible demonstration of the efficacy of the Qualitative Data Repository. The project will vividly present the payoff from a synthesis of better specified analytical techniques, institutionalized data sharing, and new standards for research transparency. The substance of the project is likely to be of interest to all scholars of international security, as well as a broder scholarly community and the genderal public as the war's centenerary approaches.

关于智力价值，美国国际关系子领域的很大一部分通过参与第一次世界大战来处理国际安全问题。 这个案例是大量关键辩论的基础，涉及多个研究项目和分析层次。 这个项目将展示新的方法，定性和多方法的研究，这承诺更严格和可复制的scholar.Most使用第一次世界大战的关键辩论早于政治学的最近注意到数据访问和研究透明性（DA-RT）。 这一新运动有两个基本原则：第一，分析透明度是研究被认为具有科学可信性和合法性的先决条件。 第二，数据在提供给其他人时变得更加有用，无论是在验证先前主张的背景下，还是在进行新的研究时，Hierarchy DA-RT被认为是定量方法的专属领域。 这些原则最近已扩展到定性和多方法研究，通过两个相关的发展。 首先，过程跟踪和反事实分析的更具体的帐户的可用性允许学者明确他们使用的分析技术。 第二，建立了新的基础设施，以便制度化地分享优质数据。 此外，新的标准正在制定中的积极引用，超链接到数字化的原始数据，这是证明的可信度假设的因果pathways.This研讨会将汇集来自三个相关的知识社区的专家：第一次世界大战的学者，定性方法学家与过程跟踪和反事实分析的专业知识，和定性数据档案工作人员在新的积极引用的做法。 他们将共同制定一个计划，以访问和链接原始源文件。关于更广泛的影响，第一次世界大战项目将是一个非常明显的证明定性数据存储库的有效性。 该项目将生动地展示更好的分析技术、制度化的数据共享和研究透明度的新标准的综合回报。 随着战争百年纪念的临近，该项目的实质内容可能会引起所有国际安全学者的兴趣，也会引起更广泛的学术界和性别公众的兴趣。