Charles C. Ragin is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is a recipient of the International Science Council's Stein Rokkan Prize, the Policy Studies Organization's Donald Campbell Award, and the American Sociological Association's Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction PART ONE. THE LOGIC OF ANALYTIC INDUCTION 1. Classic Analytic Induction2. Reconciling Disconfirming Cases 3. Explaining Variation versus Explaining Outcomes 4. The Uses of “Negative” Cases in Social Research PART TWO. GENERALIZED ANALYTIC INDUCTION 5. Classic versus Generalized Analytic Induction 6. The Interpretive Logic of Generalized Analytic Induction 7. Generalized Analytic Induction: A Step-by-Step Guide 8. Using Generalized AI to Reanalyze Viterna’s Study of Women’s Mobilization into the Salvadoran Guerrilla Army 9. Applying Generalized AI to Conventional Quantitative Data 10. Core Features of Generalized Analytic Induction Appendix A. Brief Overview of Qualitative Comparative Analysis Appendix B. Fuzzy Sets Appendix C. Using fsQCA Software to Implement Generalized AI Appendix D. Converting “Sum-of-Products” Expressions to “Product-of-Sums” Expressions Appendix E. Measures Used in Logistic Regression Analysis Notes References Index

Charles C. Ragin is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is a recipient of the International Science Council's Stein Rokkan Prize, the Policy Studies Organization's Donald Campbell Award, and the American Sociological Association's Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction PART ONE. THE LOGIC OF ANALYTIC INDUCTION 1. Classic Analytic Induction2. Reconciling Disconfirming Cases 3. Explaining Variation versus Explaining Outcomes 4. The Uses of “Negative” Cases in Social Research PART TWO. GENERALIZED ANALYTIC INDUCTION 5. Classic versus Generalized Analytic Induction 6. The Interpretive Logic of Generalized Analytic Induction 7. Generalized Analytic Induction: A Step-by-Step Guide 8. Using Generalized AI to Reanalyze Viterna’s Study of Women’s Mobilization into the Salvadoran Guerrilla Army 9. Applying Generalized AI to Conventional Quantitative Data 10. Core Features of Generalized Analytic Induction Appendix A. Brief Overview of Qualitative Comparative Analysis Appendix B. Fuzzy Sets Appendix C. Using fsQCA Software to Implement Generalized AI Appendix D. Converting “Sum-of-Products” Expressions to “Product-of-Sums” Expressions Appendix E. Measures Used in Logistic Regression Analysis Notes References Index

Charles C. Ragin is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is a recipient of the International Science Council's Stein Rokkan Prize, the Policy Studies Organization's Donald Campbell Award, and the American Sociological Association's Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction PART ONE. THE LOGIC OF ANALYTIC INDUCTION 1. Classic Analytic Induction2. Reconciling Disconfirming Cases 3. Explaining Variation versus Explaining Outcomes 4. The Uses of “Negative” Cases in Social Research PART TWO. GENERALIZED ANALYTIC INDUCTION 5. Classic versus Generalized Analytic Induction 6. The Interpretive Logic of Generalized Analytic Induction 7. Generalized Analytic Induction: A Step-by-Step Guide 8. Using Generalized AI to Reanalyze Viterna’s Study of Women’s Mobilization into the Salvadoran Guerrilla Army 9. Applying Generalized AI to Conventional Quantitative Data 10. Core Features of Generalized Analytic Induction Appendix A. Brief Overview of Qualitative Comparative Analysis Appendix B. Fuzzy Sets Appendix C. Using fsQCA Software to Implement Generalized AI Appendix D. Converting “Sum-of-Products” Expressions to “Product-of-Sums” Expressions Appendix E. Measures Used in Logistic Regression Analysis Notes References Index