Qualitative secondary analysis has generated heated debate regarding the epistemology of qualitative research. We argue that shifting to an abductive approach provides a fruitful avenue for qualitative secondary analysts who are oriented towards theory-building. However, the concrete implementation of abduction remains underdeveloped—especially for coding. We address this key gap by outlining a set of tactics for abductive analysis that can be applied for qualitative analysis. Our approach applies Timmermans and Tavory's ( Timmermans and Tavory 2012 ; Tavory and Timmermans 2014 ) three stages of abduction in three steps for qualitative (secondary) analysis: Generating an Abductive Codebook, Abductive Data Reduction through Code Equations, and In-Depth Abductive Qualitative Analysis. A key contribution of our article is the development of “code equations”—defined as the combination of codes to operationalize phenomena that span individual codes. Code equations are an important resource for abduction and other qualitative approaches that leverage qualitative data to build theory.

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L’UE a acquis de nombreuses compétences économiques depuis quelques années. Dans cet article, je fais l’hypothèse qu’en réduisant la marge de manœuvre économique des gouvernements, l’intégration européenne peut réduire 1) la participation électorale et 2) le vote économique, à l’instar de la mondialisation. Ces deux hypothèses sont testées au niveau individuel dans une perspective comparée grâce aux European Election Studies (EES) de 2009 et 2014. Les résultats indiquent que la perception des contraintes économiques de l’UE diminue le vote économique après la crise, mais pas en 2009. En revanche, les données ne montrent pas d’effet sur la participation électorale.

During the last French presidential election, scholars paid considerable attention to the campaign and several projects were set up to analyse its different facets.