31/10/2025
We are glad to announce that in September 2025, Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos (Oxford University) and Juan Masullo, member of the Department of Social and Political Sciences and the Scientific Board of POLS, were awarded the Alexander George Prize for Best Paper by the American Political Science Association's Section on Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research, for their paper
"Aligning Interviews with Process Tracing", Sociological Methods and Research, 2024.
The Alexander L. George Article Award honors Alexander George's contributions to the comparative case-study method, including his work linking that method to a systematic concern with research design, and his contribution of developing the idea and the practice of process tracing. This award may be granted to a journal article or to a chapter in an edited volume that stands on its own as an article.
Jury's assessment
The jury praised the article as "systematic in considering the various strategies for designing, sampling, and sequencing interviews to yield insights for process tracing" and as "a treasure trove of methodological insights and practical guidance for researchers using these tools and seeking to combine them." According to the jury, the article contributes to "the rigorous application and systematic improvement of qualitative methods beyond their general defence."
Congratulations Ezequiel & Juan!
