Back to valence: Process-tracing evidence that hedonic tone, not certainty appraisal drives the effect of emotion on decision making

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Bachkirov ◽  
John Maule
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Hedonic Tone

Process Tracing Technologies in Decision Making: Introduction and Prospect

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 606-614
Author(s):  
Wen YU ◽  
Gonggu YAN ◽  
Zhihua HUANG
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Process Tracing

Process Tracing in Crisis Decision Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Beach
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Causal Process ◽  
Foreign Policy Analysis ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Causal Inferences ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Causal Processes

Process tracing is an in-depth case study method that can be used to study how causal processes play out within cases. Given its focus on processes and temporality, process tracing is a useful method for analyzing crisis and crisis decision making in the fields of foreign policy analysis and public policy. As can be seen from its name, process tracing involves theorizing a causal process that is then traced by investigating the observable manifestations of the operation of the process as a whole in the more minimalist variant, or for each of its parts in the more maximalist variant. Minimalist process tracing is typically used early in a research program as a form of plausibility probe to understand what types of processes might be linking a crisis event with particular outcomes like policy change. Maximalist process tracing can then be used once there is preliminary knowledge about processes, and where the goals become gaining a better theoretical understanding of how they operate, and making stronger causal inferences using more direct evidence of their operation.

scholarly journals Permeabilidade da política comercial brasileira diante da participação da Coalizão Empresarial Brasileira durante as negociações do acordo Mercosul e União Europeia | Brazilian trade policy permeability in the face of Brazilian Business Coalition participation during the negotiations of the Mercosul and European Union agreement

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. e57620
Author(s):  
Alexsandro Eugenio Pereira ◽  
Danniele Varella Rios
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
The Face ◽  
High Degree

Este artigo tem como objetivo investigar em que medida a política comercial brasileira esteve permeável às pressões domésticas exercidas pela Coalizão Empresarial Brasileira - CEB ao longo das negociações comerciais entre o Mercosul e a União Europeia. Sustenta-se a hipótese de que a participação desse grupo esteve condicionada à sua contribuição técnica, enquanto sua influência política foi limitada pela autonomia decisória do Ministério das Relações Exteriores. Para testar essa hipótese, foram analisadas 83 propostas presentes em documento publicado pela CEB, classificadas em técnicas ou “posicionais” e comparadas com o resultado do acordo, disponibilizado pelo Itamaraty. Os resultados apontam para alto grau de permeabilidade de propostas técnicas (X=0,75), frente ao baixo grau de permeabilidade de propostas “posicionais” (X=0,38). No entanto, para inferir sobre a relação desse resultado com a autonomia decisória do Ministério das Relações Exteriores, seria necessário um aprofundamento da investigação por meio de métodos qualitativos como o process tracing. Palavras-chave: Participação empresarial; permeabilidade; política comercial.ABSTRACT This article aims to investigate the extent to which Brazilian trade policy was permeable to domestic pressures conducted by the Brazilian Business Coalition - CEB during trade negotiations between Mercosur and the European Union. The hypothesis holds that this group's participation was conditioned to its technical contribution, while its political influence was limited by the decision-making autonomy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. To test this hypothesis, 83 proposals present in a document published by CEB were classified as technical or “positional” and compared with the result of the agreement, published by Itamaraty. The results point to a high degree of permeability of technical proposals (X = 0.75), compared to the low degree of “positional” proposals (X = 0.38). However, to infer about the linkage between this result and decision-making autonomy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it would be necessary to deepen the investigation through qualitative methods such as process tracing.Keywords: Business participation; permeability; trade policy. Recebido em 07 fev. 2021 | Aceito em 30 ago. 2021 

Divining Disposition: The Role of Elite Beliefs and Gender Narratives in Women’s Suffrage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariel J. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
And Gender

Most accounts of franchise extension hold that elites extend electoral rights when they believe expansions will consolidate their political power. Yet, how do elites come to believe this? And how do elites make inferences about the political preferences of the disenfranchised? I argue that elites utilize the cue of “disposition” to determine the consequences of enfranchisement. Disposition refers to the innate characteristics of an individual (or group) that are believed to shape behavior and decision-making. Importantly, because disposition is perceived to be intrinsic, elites assume it is more stable and permanent than party identification or policy preferences. Using historical process-tracing and discourse analysis of primary documents, I determine that disposition was frequently and repeatedly used to either support or oppose women’s enfranchisement in New Zealand.

Socialisation and decision-making in the Council of the European Union

2016 ◽  
pp. 122-140
Author(s):  
Kamil Ławniczak
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Third ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
Causal Framework ◽  
Oriented Approach

The complex system of decision-making in the Council of the European Union has many specific features which require explanation. This article presents a constructivist approach to this problem and focuses on the influence of socialisation. First, it explains why inquiry into the decision-making in the Council from the constructivist perspective is justified and then proposes the use of process-tracing, a method that allows to trace causal mechanisms linking the effects of socialisation and the characteristics of decision-making in the Council. Second, a typology of socialisation mechanisms and effects is presented. The third section is an attempt to use the inductive variety of process-tracing in order to explain certain qualities of decision-making in the Council. The final section outlines the theory-oriented approach to process-tracing, which could follow from the presented conceptualisation and explains the need to include the constitutive aspects of socialisation within the causal framework of process-tracing research.

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