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Abstract What justifies multimethod research? This chapter draws on recent debates in the philosophy of science on evidential pluralism and places them in dialogue with the evolution of multimethod research in the social sciences. We pay particular attention to the Russo–Williamson hypothesis, which draws on research in the medical and biological sciences to argue that causation typically involves evidence of both association and mechanisms. The chapter demonstrates how this approach has resonance in the social sciences, but also argues that this is but one form that evidential partnerships might take. It shows this by reviewing a new multimethod approach called Large-N Qualitative Analysis, which draws on regularity approaches to causation to make the point and concludes by suggesting a variety of other evidential partnerships that are visible or might be possible.