We would like to respond to several of comments made by the other contributions to this symposium. First, and most generally, we would like to state that our book on process-tracing (PT) was heavily inspired by George and Bennett's chapter on PT (2005). In many respects our book can be under-stood as our take on what the result would have been if George and Bennett, instead of only using a chapter, had the luxury of devoting a book-length manuscript to developing PT, where they would have had

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... re space to both develop the onto-logical and epistemological foundations of PT, and develop practical guidelines for its use.