Soziologie

On 16 September, an author workshop for a Special Issue on "Advancing the Development of Interpretive Process Tracing within Policy Research" took place at Bielefeld University. The event was organized by Sandra Plümer, working group member of the AG Blum at Bielefeld University, and Johanna Kuhlmann, University of Bremen. In case of acceptance, both will serve as guest editors for the Special Issue developing an interpretive variant of process tracing.

The author workshop's main part consisted of four presentations. Christopher Smith-Ochoa (University of Duisburg-Essen) presented his paper entitled "Enforcing State Recognition via Civil Society: How Social Reporting Problematized Poverty onto the Agenda in Germany". Sybille Münch (University of Hildesheim) talked about "Mechanisms of perception, action and interaction in the diffusion of return policies" and Hilde van Meegdenburg (Leiden University) spoke about "Interpretivist Process Tracing in Foreign Policy Analysis: Making Space for Agency and Contingency". Finally, Sandra Plümer and Johanna Kuhlmann presented a first draft of their introduction to the potential Special Issue.

The guest editors of the Special Issue as well as the whole AG Blum would like to thank the authors for coming to Bielefeld and sharing their experiences with interpretive process tracing. The AG Blum wishes all the best for the further development of the Special Issue and the upcoming review process.