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Alan Jacobs

@alanjacobs.bsky.social

Prof and Head, UBC Political Science | Comparative political economy, policy, political behavior, qual. & mixed methods | Co-host @scopeconditions.bsky.social podcast | he/his

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material: integrated-inferences.github.io gets you to

* our open access book on causal infernce in qual & mixed methods
* our pkg CausalQueries for all kinds of causal wizardry
* a forthcoming JSS paper on CausalQueries with Tiez, @syunyaev.bsky.social & Medina

macartan.github.io/assets/pdf/p...

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GESIS Training Courses

Please share: @alanjacobs.bsky.social and I are running a Jan '26 course at @gesis.org Cologne on

๐‚๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ ๐Œ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Œ๐ข๐ฑ๐ž๐ ๐Œ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธProcess tracing + Bayesian inference + graphical causal models

All in two heady days.

training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...

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State-Building as Lawfare Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - State-Building as Lawfare

Check out his new book, State-Building as Lawfare
Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya, here:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

17.06.2025 14:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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EPISODE 3.10: Rules of Law, with Egor Lazarev โ€” Scope Conditions Podcast Political analysts are thinking a lot these days about the rule of law: where it comes from, what sustains it, how it can break down. Those are hard enough questions in themselves. And, yet โ€” they sim...

๐Ÿ“ฃ New episode!

What happens when there are multiple rules of law - when state law overlaps with religious and customary law? What does this mean for marriages, child custody, and even murder?

Egor Lazarev discusses his research on postwar Chechnya:

www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/epi...

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*Causal Models for Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research* mit โ€ช@macartan.bsky.social & @alanjacobs.bsky.social.

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 27 โ€“ 28 January 2026
๐Ÿข Cologne
๐ŸŒ t1p.de/qual_mix_met...

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Integrated Inferences

Check out the videos:

www.youtube.com/@IntegratedI...

And the bookโ€™s site:

integrated-inferences.github.io

More to comeโ€”let us know what you think!

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Whether youโ€™re deep into causal modeling or just wondering how to mix methods better, these vids are a great starting point.

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Integrated Inferences

The ideas are still new to a lot of researchers, so we made short, no-jargon videos to walk you through the basics.

Theyโ€™re intuitive, conversational, and now live:

www.youtube.com/@IntegratedI...

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Integrated Inferences Cambridge Core - Qualitative Research Methods - Integrated Inferences

Causal inference nerds (and the causal-curious): we posted some videos

@macartan.bsky.social and I wrote *Integrated Inferences*โ€”a book on using causal models to connect process tracing, experiments, and more.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

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๐Ÿ“ข New episode!

Why do political parties use violence to achieve their goals in some political contexts but not in others?

@niloufersiddiqui.bsky.social talks with us about her award-winning new book on violence as electoral strategy in Pakistan.

www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/episode-39

20.02.2025 16:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ข New episode!

What happens when criminal gangs partner with politicians to influence elections?

@jessietrudeau.bsky.social shares with us her research in #Brazil ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท and discusses the implications of "machine gun politics" for democracy.

www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/epi...

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Thanks, Mark!

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This book w/ @macartan.bsky.social โ€“ on how to integrate theory with data from diverse empirical strategies โ€“ has been many fun years in the making, and we're excited to finally have it out in the world!

See โฌ‡๏ธ for links to the book at CUP, an open access version, software, and many thank you's!

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