A presentation of Prof. Charles Ragin - Prof. Peter Bursens (Universiteit Antwerpen)

Inaugural lecture
Prof. Charles C. Ragin (University of Arizona, USA)
"Making Comparative Analysis Count : Bridging Case-Oriented and Variable-Oriented Research"

Roundtable :
"Confronting visions of the "middle road""
Moderator : Prof. Gisèle De Meur (ULB)
4 visions (4 x 10')

- Prof. Marc Swyngedouw (ISPO-K.U.Leuven)
- Prof. Pierre Dehez (IRES and Prorector for the human sciences, UCL)
- Prof. Daishiro Nomiya (Sophia University, Tokyo)
- Prof. André-Paul Frognier (UCL - CPC)

A reply/rejoinder by Prof. Charles Ragin (University of Arizona, USA) (20')

Open discussion with the audience (45')

Expert workshop :
Systematic Comparative Case Analysis and Policy Analysis : recent advances in QCA and Fuzzy Sets and their applications in policy analysis
Moderator : Prof. Geert Loosveldt (KULeuven)

Part (I)
- Lecture by Charles Ragin : "Recent advances in fuzzy-sets methods and their application to policy questions" (60')

Discussion (open floor)

Expert workshop:

Part (II)
- Prof. Jon Kvist (Danish National Institute of Social Research
(SFI), Copenhagen, Denmark: "Analysing policy change with fuzzy sets: the case of social rights" (20')
- Prof. Gisèle De Meur (ULB) and Lasse Cronqvist ( Marburg University, Germany) "Adding Multi-Value Variables and Visual Aids to QCA - Presentation of TOSMANA, a newly developed software" (20')
- Prof. Tsutomu Watanabe (Shinshu University, Japan) "Where theory and reality meet : using the full potential of QCA by exploiting the intersection function of the QCA software. International comparison analysis about the occurrence of social movement " (20')

Discussion (open floor). (50')