Here is a quick digest of main recent complements on the COMPASSS international resource site

1. --- COMPASSS ACTIVITIES ---
see : http://www.compasss.org/COMPASSS%20activities.htm

Bern, Switzerland, 7th December 2007
Joint workshop
"Comparative methods: constructing concepts and using QCA"
With Profs. Gary Goertz (University of Arizona) & Benoît Rihoux (UCLouvain) as guest speakers, + interactive session & paper session.

Registration and Contact:
The number of participants is limited to 30 people.
Participation is free of charge, but participants must register for the
workshop by sending an email to andereggen@ipw.unibe.ch
Registration deadline is the 15th of November 2007.

2. --- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE (update – and help us updating it !) ---
see : http://www.compasss.org/Bibli%20database.htm

The international bibliographical database has been updated (as of 10 Oct.).
NB: it is impossible for us alone, at the COMPASSS co-ordination at the UCLouvain, to keep track of all the recent publications, papers etc. – so we do need your informations and tips. In particular, only with your co-operation will we be able to exhaustively cover all publications linked to QCA broadly speaking. If you wish to report new entries, suggest corrections/complements (e.g. abstracts etc.) to existing entries, etc., please send a message to Damien Bol : damien.bol@student.uclouvain.be . You may also send full-text files (in that case: pls send a „cc“ to : benoit.rihoux@uclouvain.be ).

3. --- PUBLICATIONS ---
see : http://www.compasss.org/Publications.htm

- Textbook (German-language)
QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (QCA) UND FUZZY-SETS.
Ein Lehrbuch für Anwender und alle, die es werden wollen
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER and Claudius WAGEMANN
Foreword by Charles C. RAGIN
2007, 287p., paperback
Verlag Barbara Budrich

- August 2, 2007: Set of exercises (with and without answers) for
Social Science Concepts: A User's Guide
by Gary GOERTZ
2006, Princeton University Press.

4. --- WORKING PAPERS ---
see : http://www.compasss.org/WP.htm

WP2007-50[Posted on 7-Oct-2007]
Adrian DUSA (University of Bucharest)
QCA Graphical User Interface manual
NB: This is an updated version of WP2006-41 and has been published in Journal of Business Research

WP2007-49[Posted on 5-Oct-2007]
Adrian DUSA (University of Bucharest)
Enhancing Quine-McCluskey

WP2007-48[Posted on 3-Oct-2007]
Olav S. Stokke (The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway)
Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Shaming, and International Regime Effectiveness
NB: published in Journal of Business Research.
Updated version of WP2003-5, and of Stokke (2004).

WP2007-47[Posted on 2-Aug-2007]
Maria Gjolberg (University of Oslo)
The Origin of Corporate Social Responisbility: Global Forces or National Legacies?

5. --- SOFTWARE ---
see : http://www.compasss.org/Softwares.htm

- Fs/QCA: fs/QCA 2.0 (January 2007 version)
- Tosmana: Tosmana 1.3 (June 2007 version)
- QCA in R: Version 0.4-5 (October 2007)

Best regards from the Louvain (UCL) COMPASSS co-ordination team : Benoît Rihoux, with Sakura Yamasaki & Damien Bol