Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Learning from Cases

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Emphasising the Q in qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), Roel Rutten presents QCA as a thoroughly qualitative method to help researchers learn from cases. He highlights that while Boolean expressions describing cross-case patterns are QCA’s most conspicuous element, they do not amount to causal explanations.Throughout the book, Rutten demonstrates how QCA’s interpretive logic pervades every step of a QCA study. He uses critical realism as a philosophical foundation to explain how QCA researchers develop their partial and perspectival knowledge of cases into Boolean expressions. Proposing multi-level sets as a way to acknowledge the diversity of social reality, Rutten criticises the use of fuzzy sets in QCA as a poor match to QCA’s threshold logic.Comprehensive and innovative, this book is a vital read for social science methods experts and users. It is also an important book for QCA experts and students looking for a deeper understanding of QCA.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-11-12
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781839104510

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ContentsPreface 1 QCA: learning from cases2 The Ragin revolution3 A theory of causality for QCA4 Cases, case populations and generalization5 Boolean algebra6 The case-based causal logic7 Set analysis8 Calibration and aggregation9 Reservations against fuzzy sets in QCA10 The truth table analysis11 Calibration and confounding conditions in a large-N example12 Getting QCA right: a small-N example13 Capturing the logic and practice of QCAReferencesAppendix: Resources

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