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Watching Your Posterior: Comment on Seawright

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

Bear F. Braumoeller  and
Gary Goertz
Bear F. Braumoeller
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Department of Government, 1737 Cambridge Street, No. 403a, Cambridge, MA 02138. e-mail: bfbraum@fas.harvard.edu
Gary Goertz
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Department of Political Science, Tucson, AZ 85721. e-mail: ggoertz@u.arizona.edu
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In “Testing for Necessary and/or Sufficient Causation,” Jason Seawright (2002) presents an intriguing new Bayesian technique for testing theories that posit necessary conditions. His technique differs in substantial ways from those presented in separate articles by Dion (1998), Ragin (1987), and ourselves (2000) and constitutes a fundamental critique of those procedures. Having criticized quite a few procedures and theorists in our own article, we can hardly complain; rather, we recognize the constructive spirit of the endeavor and, in that same spirit, would like to offer a rejoinder.

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Political Analysis , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , Spring 2002 , pp. 198 - 203
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Copyright © Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association 2002 

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