Hilary Olson

Bridging Research and Real-World Change

Hilary Olson Qualitative Comparative Analysis Conference of the Americas Los Angeles, CA, USA

Abstract

In this poster presentation, we discuss the application of Process Tracing, which assumes causation is generative, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) with assumes causation is multiple, to evaluate the impact of different elements of a Social Outcome Contract. We compare how these two different approaches were used to evaluate the same Social Outcome Contract, offering insights into the potential of using small ‘n’ methodologies for future analyses.