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1. BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk. "Comparative Studies - Method and Design." International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. eds Neil J. SMELSER and Paul B. BALTES. Pergamon: Oxford, 2001. 2427-33.

2. ---. "Conditions of Authoritarianism, Fascism and Democracy in Inter-War Europe - A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 39.4 (1998): 335-77.

3. ---. "Makro-qualitative vergleichende Methoden." Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. eds Dirk BERG-SCHLOSSER and Ferdinand MÜLLER-ROMMEL. 3rd ed. Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1997. 67-88.

4. BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk, and Gisèle DE MEUR. "Reduction of Complexity." Crisis, Compromise, Collapse. Vol. 2 : Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-1939. eds Dirk BERG-SCHLOSSER and Gisèle DE MEUR. London: MacMillan, 2000.

5. BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk, and Ferdinand MÜLLER-ROMMEL, eds. Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. 3rd ed. Opladen: Leske & Budrich, 1997.

6. BURSENS, Peter. "Bijlage 5: Uitwerking van de QCA analyse." Impact van instituties op beleidsvorming. Een institutionneel perspectief op besluitvorming in de communautaire pijler van de Europese Unie [PhD dissertation, unpublished]. Peter BURSENS. Antwerpen: Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, 1999. 409-19.

7. BURSENS, Peter. "Impact van instituties op beleidsvorming. Een institutionneel perspectief op besluitvorming in de communautaire pijler van de Europese Unie.". Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, 1999.

8. COLLIER, David, and James E. MAHON. "Conceptual "Stretching" Revisited: Adpating Categories in Comparative Analysis." Amercian Political Science Review 87.4 (1993): 845-55.

9. DE MEUR, Gisèle. "La comparaison des systèmes politiques : recherche des similarités et des différences." Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée 3.2 (1996): 405-37.
Abstract: MSDO-MDSO technique

10. DE MEUR, Gisèle, and Dirk BERG-SCHLOSSER. "Comparing Political Systems : Establishing Similarities and Dissimilarities." European Journal of Political Research 26.2 (1994): 193-219.
Abstract: MSDO-MDSO technique

11. ---. "Conditions of Authoritarianism, Fascism and Democracy in Inter-War Europe : Systematic Matching and Contrasting of Cases for "Small N" Analysis." Comparative Political Studies 29.4 (1996): 423-68.
Abstract: MSDO-MDSO technique

12. DE MEUR, Gisele, Peter BURSENS, and Alain GOTTCHEINER. "MSDO/MDSO Revisited for Public Policy Analysis." Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis. Eds Benoît RIHOUX and Heike GRIMM. New York: Springer, 2006. 67-94.

13. DE MEUR, Gisèle. "Designing Most Similar and Most Different Configurations: a Tool for Reduction of Complexity in Comparative Science With Few Cases and Many Variables." International Conference on Comparative Social Sciences.

14. DE MEUR, Gisèle. "MSDO-MDSO Revisited for Policy Analysis." ESF Exploratory Workshop on "Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis. And Interdisciplinary European Endeavour for Methodological Advances and Improved Policy Analysis/Evaluation": 2004.

15. KROUWEL, André. "Lecture 2b. Problems of Comparison: Units of Analysis, Measurement and Bias.", 2001. 11p.

16. SMITHSON, Michael, and Jay VERKUILEN. Fuzzy Set Theory. Applications in the Social Sciences Vol. 147. London: Sage Publications, Inc, 2006.
Abstract: This book introduces fuzzy set theory to social science researchers. Fuzzy sets are categories with blurred boundaries. With classical sets, objects are either in the set or not, but objects can belong partially to more than one fuzzy set at a time. Many concepts in the social sciences have this characteristic, and fuzzy set theory provides methods for systematically dealing with them. A primary reason for not going beyond programmatic statements and rather unsophisticated uses of fuzzy set theory has been the lack of practical methods for combining fuzzy set concepts with statistical methods. This monograph takes that topic as its major focus, and provides explicit guides for researchers who would like to harness fuzzy set concepts while being able to make statistical inferences and test their models. Real examples and data-sets from several disciplines illustrate the techniques and applications, demonstrating how a combination of fuzzy sets and statistics enable researchers to analyze their data in new ways.

17. TILLEUX, Olivier. "Projet de thèse: Les conditions de la capacité dirigeante des élites locales en Wallonie. Etude comparative.", 2002.

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