During the past decade, social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanations have
received considerable attention in the social sciences as well as in the philosophy of …

This paper reviews existing research on self-presentation in social media in order to inform
future research. Social media offer seemingly limitless opportunities for strategic self …

Process tracing is a method that aims to trace causal mechanisms as they play out in real-
world cases using in-depth case studies. The analytical focus is on understanding the …

In this second edition of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference, completely revised and
expanded, the essential features of the counterfactual approach to observational data …

Understanding the processes by which practices become routinely embedded in everyday
life is a long-standing concern of sociology and the other social sciences. It has important …

The second edition of this highly regarded book provides a concise and accessible
introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. It …

The current literature on digital infrastructure offers powerful lenses for conceptualizing the
increasingly interconnected information system collectives found in contemporary …

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date look at problem solving research and
practice over the last fifteen years. The first chapter describes differences in types of …

Sociologists have long believed that psychology alone can't explain what happens when
people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and …

There is growing interest in the concept of ''mechanism''across many areas of the social
sciences. In the field of program and policy evaluation, a number of scholars have also …