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Configurational Comparative Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques(Applied Social Research Methods)


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Configurational Comparative Methods paves the way for an innovative approach to empirical scientific work through a strategy that integrates key strengths of both qualitative (case-oriented) and quantitative (variable-oriented) approaches. This first-of-its-kind text is ideally suited for "small-N" or "intermediate-N" research situations, which both mainstream qualitative and quantitative methods find difficult to address. Benoit Rihoux and Charles C. Ragin, along with their contributing authors, offer both a basic, comparative research design overview and a technical and hands-on review of Crisp-Set QCA (csQCA), Multi-Value QCA (mvQCA), and Fuzzy-Set QCA (fsQCA).

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION - Benoît Rihoux and Charles Ragin 1. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an Approach - Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Gisèle De Meur, Benoît Rihoux & Charles Ragin 2. Comparative Research Design: Case and Variable Selection - Dirk Berg-Schlosser & Gisèle De Meur 3. Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (CSQCA) - Benoît Rihoux & Gisèle De Meur 4. Multi-Value QCA (MVQCA) - Lasse Cronqvist & Dirk Berg-Schlosser 5. Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using Fuzzy Sets (FSQCA) - Charles C. Ragin 6. A Commented Review of Applications - Sakura Yamasaki & Benoît Rihoux 7. Addressing the Critiques of QCA - Gisèle De Meur, Benoît Rihoux & Sakura Yamasaki 8. Conclusions - The Way(s) Ahead - Benoît Rihoux, Charles Ragin and Sakura Yamasaki FURTHER RESOURCES FOR CONFIGURATIONAL COMPARATIVE METHODS - Damien Bol and Sakura Yamasaki GLOSSARY - Sakura Yamasaki, Benoît Rihoux, Gisèle De Meur and Charles C. Ragin THEMATIC AND AUTHOR INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHORS A Commented Review of Applications - Sakura Yamasaki, Benoît Rihoux Addressing the Critiques of QCA - Gisele De Meur, Benoît Rihoux, Sakura Yamasaki Comparative Research Design: Case and Variable Selection - Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Gisele De Meur Conclusions - The Way(s) Ahead - Benoît Rihoux, Charles Ragin, Sakura Yamasaki, Damien Bol Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Benoît Rihoux, Gisele De Meur Multi-Value QCA (mvQCA) - Lasse Cronqvist, Dirk Berg-Schlosser Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an Approach - Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Gisele De Meur, Benoît Rihoux, Charles Ragin

About the Author :
Charles C. Ragin spent most of his youth in Texas and the southeastern United States. He attended the University of Texas at Austin as an undergraduate and received his BA degree in 1972 at the age of 19. That same year he began graduate work in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his PhD in 1975. From 1975 until 2001, he lived in the Midwest, teaching first at Indiana University and then at Northwestern University. He headed west in 2001, where he spent just over a decade at University of Arizona-Tucson. In 2012, he joined the faculty at the University of California-Irvine, where he is currently the Chancellor′s Professor of Sociology. He is best known for developing a methodological alternative to conventional research methods, using formal set-theoretic techniques for comparative research. His many publications address broad issues in politics and society, with topics ranging from the causes of ethnic political mobilization to the shaping of the welfare state in advanced capitalist countries. He has written several books including Intersectional Inequality: Race, Class, Test Scores and Poverty (with Peer Fiss, 2017). Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond (2008) Fuzzy-Set Social Science (2000). His book The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies (1987) won the 1989 Stein Rokkan Prize of the International Social Science Council of UNESCO. In 2014 he received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award of the American Sociological Association. He is married to Mary Driscoll, and they have two sons, Andrew and Daniel.

Review :
"This is a readable and useful book . . . an extended essay on one particular method, which is easy to understand, easy to apply, and generally useful. The method itself is implemented in a computer technique. . . . This method will systematize the analysis and produce an elegant statement of the combination of conditions which lead to a divided working class--provided there are no contradictions in the data. Where there are contradictions, Ragin's method will identify these combinations of conditions that lead to an ambiguous result."--William Miller, "Study of Public Policy


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781412942355
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Series Title: Applied Social Research Methods
  • Weight: 331 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1412942357
  • Publisher Date: 04 Sep 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques
  • Width: 139 mm


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