The propositions would have shaped your data collection plan and therefore would have given priorities to the relevant analytic strategies. One example,from a study of intergovernmental relationships, followed the proposition that federal funds have redistributive dollar effects but also create new organizational changes at the local level (Yin, 1980). The basic proposition—the
creation of a “counterpart bureaucracy” in the form of local planning organizations, citizen action groups, and other new offices within a local government itself, but all attuned to specific federal programs—wast raced in case studies of several cities. For each city, the purpose of the case study was to show how the formation and modification in local organizations occurred after changes in related federal programs and how these local organizations acted on behalf of the federal programs even though they might have been components of local government