'Let Me Tell the Story Straight On': Middlemarch, Process-Tracing Methods and the Politics of Narrative

British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 477-497

  Ruback, Timothy J ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

IR theory; Narrative; Process tracing; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; POLITICAL RELATIONS; POLITICAL THEORY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650424395     PISSN: 13691481     EISSN: 1467856X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-856X.2010.00425.x     Document Type: Article

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