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Tentative Answers to Questions about Causal Mechanisms James Mahoney Department of Sociology Box 1916 Brown University Providence RI 02912 James_Mahoney@brown.edu Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association Philadelphia PA August 28 2003. Tentative Answers to Questions about Causal Mechanisms James Mahoney Recently many analysts have suggested that the study of “causal mechanisms” should constitute a central part of causal inference in the social sciences. This call comes from both leading methodologists in political science
Postulate n ----------------------- Specific event/ Proposition 1 outcome. 16 Table 3 Functionalist Rational Choice and Power Theories Functionalist Rational Choice Power Theory Theory Theory Causal Social Individual Collective Agent System Actor Causal System Instrumental Exercised Mechanism Needs Rationality Capacity 17