Preface;
Part I. Introduction:
1. Process tracing: from philosophical roots to best practices Andrew Bennett and Jeffrey T. Checkel;
Part II. Process Tracing in Action:
2. Process tracing the effects of ideas Alan M. Jacobs;
3. Mechanisms, process, and the study of international institutions Jeffrey T. Checkel;
4. Efficient process tracing: analyzing the causal mechanisms of European integration Frank Schimmelfennig;
5. What makes process tracing good? Causal mechanisms, causal inference, and the completeness standard in comparative politics David Waldner;
6. Explaining the Cold War's end: process tracing all the way down? Matthew Evangelista;
7. Process tracing, causal inference, and civil war Jason Lyall;
Part III. Extensions, Controversies, and Conclusions:
8. Improving process tracing: the case of multi-method research Thad Dunning;
9. Practice tracing Vincent Pouliot;
10. Beyond metaphors: standards, theory, and the 'where next' for process tracing Jeffrey T. Checkel and Andrew Bennett;
Appendix. Disciplining our conjectures: systematizing process tracing with Bayesian analysis.