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2008
WP2008-53[Posted
on 06-November-2008]
Goertz ROHWER
Qualitative
Comparative Analysis: A Discussion of Interpretations
WP2008-53[Posted
on 21-Aug-2008]
Seungyoon Sophia
LEE (University of Oxford)
A
Critique of the Fuzzy-Set Methods in Comparative Social
Policy. A Critical Introduction and Review of the Applications of Fuzzy-Set
Methods.
2007
WP2007-52[Posted
on 27-Nov-2007]
Maarten
VINK (University of Maastricht / University
of Lisbon) and Olaf VAN
VLIET (Leiden University)
Not
quite crisp, not yet fuzzy?... Assessing the potentials and pitfalls of
multi-value QCA.
NB:
Updated version forthcoming in Field
Methods
WP2007-51[Posted
on 4-Nov-2007]
Claudius
WAGEMANN (Istituto italiano di scienze umane) and Carsten
Q. SCHNEIDER (Central European University)
STANDARDS OF GOOD
PRACTICE IN QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE
ANALYSIS (QCA) AND FUZZY-SETS
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
Published
in Journal
of Business Research, Vol.60(5), 2007, Pp.576-586
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
(PDF format; Link to the Fridtjof
Nansen Institute)
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?
WP2007-46[Posted
on 8-March-2007]
Adrian DUSA (University
of Bucharest)
A mathematical approach to the
boolean minimization problem
NB:
published in Quality and Quantity (2008).
WP2007-45[Posted
on 25-January-2007]
Charles
C. RAGIN and Sarah
STRAND (University of Arizona)
Using QCA to Study Causal Order:
Comment on Caren and Panofsky (2005)
WP2007-44[Posted
on 25-January-2007]
Charles
C. RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Fuzzy Sets: Calibration Versus
Measurement
NB:
forthcoming in David Collier, Henry
Brady, and Janet Box Steffensmeier (eds.), Methodology volume of Oxford
Handbooks of Political Science
2006
WP2006-43[Posted
on 30-June-2006]
Axel MARX (Hogheschool Antwerp)
TOWARDS MORE ROBUST MODEL SPECIFICATION
IN QCA
RESULTS FROM A METHODOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT
WP2006-42[Posted
on 21-June-2006]
Barbara VIS (Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam)
States of welfare or
states of workfare?
A fuzzy-set ideal type analysis of major welfare state restructuring
in sixteen advanced capitalist democracies, 1985-2002
NB:
forthcoming in Policy
& Politics.
WP2006-41[Posted
on 20-June-2006][Removed 7-Oct-2007]
Adrian
DUSA (University of Bucharest)
QCA Graphical User Interface manual
NB:
Updated version (October 2007) available as WP2007-50.
WP2006-40[Posted
on 29-May-2006]
Jon
KVIST (Danish National Institute of Social Research)
MEASURING THE WELFARE STATE –
CONCEPTS, IDEAL TYPES AND FUZZY SETS IN COMPARATIVE
STUDIES
NB: forthcoming in Jochen Clasen and Nico Siegel
(eds.), "Welfare Reform in Advanced Societies", Edward Elgar.
WP2006-39[Posted
on 22-May-2006]
Carsten
Q. SCHNEIDER (Central
European University) and Bernard
GROFMAN (University of California at Irvine)
IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE A REGRESSION
EQUATION … BUT IT’S NOT! AN INTUITIVE APPROACH TO THE PRESENTATION
OF QCA AND FS/QCA RESULTS
WP2006-38[Posted
on 15-Feb-2006]
Daniel
BOCHSLER (University of Geneva)
Electoral engineering
and inclusion of ethnic groups:
Ethnic minorities in parliaments of Central and Eastern European countries
WP2006-37[Posted
on 30-Jan-2006]
James
MAHONEY (Northwestern University) and Gary
GOERTZ (Arizona University)
A tale of two
cultures: contrasting quantitative and qualitative research
WP2006-36
[Posted on 27-Jan-2006]
Gregory
JACKSON (King's College London, and Research Institute of Economy,
Trade and Industry (RIETI))
Employee
Representation in the Board Compared: A Fuzzy Sets Analysis of Corporate
Governance, Unionism, and Political Institutions
2005
WP2005-35 [Posted
on 7-Nov-2005]
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER (CEU Budapest)
and Claudius WAGEMANN
(EUI Florence)
Reducing
Complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Remote and Proximate
Factors and the Consolidation of Democracy
NB: Forthcoming in European Journal of Political
Research 2006. This is an updated version of the WP2002-1 version (now
deleted).
WP2005-34 [Posted
on 12-Oct-2005]
Svend-Erik SKANNING (University
of Aarhus)
Respect for
Civil Liberties in Post-Communist Countries:
A Multi-Methodological Test of Structural Explanations
NB:
This is an update of the 6-Oct-2005
version (now deleted).
WP2005-33 [Posted
on 29-Aug-2005]
Frank M. HAEGE (Leiden
University)
Constructivism,
Fuzzy Sets and (Very) Small-N:
Revisiting the Conditions for Communicative Action
NB: A revised version of the paper has been published
in the Journal of Business Research 60, 5: 512-521 (2007)
WP2005-32 [Posted on 07-July-2005]
Caty CLEMENT (Harvard
University)
The Nuts and Bolts of State
Collapse: Common Causes and Different Patterns?
A QCA Analysis of Lebanon, Somalia and the former-Yugoslavia
WP2005-31 [Posted on 18-March-2005]
Gary
GOERTZ (University of Arizona) and Jack S. LEVY (Rutgers University)
CAUSAL EXPLANATIONS, NECESSARY
CONDITIONS, AND CASE STUDIES: WORLD WAR I AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR
NB: Forthcoming
monograph edited by the authors, Causal
Explanations, Necessary conditions, and Case Studies:
World War I and the end of the Cold War.
WP2005-30 [Posted on 14-January-2005]
Peer C. FISS (Queen's School of Business)
A SET-THEORETIC APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONAL
CONFIGURATIONS
NB: Forthcoming in Academy of Management Review.
Re-worked version of WP2004-24.
2004
WP2004-29 [Posted on 22-December-2004]
Axel MARX and Hans PEETERS (KULeuven)
WIN FOR LIFE: AN EMPIRICAL
EXPLORATION OF THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF INTRODUCING A BASIC INCOME
WP2004-28 [Posted on 7-December-2004]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
From Fuzzy Sets to Crisp Truth Tables
(April05 version)
NB: Re-worked version of WP2004-26
WP2004-27 [Posted on 11-October-2004]
Astrid SPREITZER (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna) and Sakura YAMASAKI
(UCL, FNRS, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Beyond methodological
tenets - The worlds of QCA and SNA and their benefit to Policy Analysis
WP2004-26 [Posted on 6-September-2004]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
From Fuzzy Sets to Crisp Truth Tables
NB: Re-worked version available as WP2004-28
WP2004-25 [Posted on 26-August-2004]
Axel MARX (KU Leuven) and Jan DOMBRECHT (Federal Government of Belgium)
THE
ORGANISATIONAL ANTECEDENTS OF REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURIES: A Systematic
Comparative Case Analysis of Assembly, Sorting and Packaging Jobs
(WP removed in Dec. 2006. This WP will be
published soon in "Journal of Business Research".)
WP2004-24 [Posted on 3-August-2004]
Peer C. FISS (Queen's University)
Towards a Set-theoretic Approach for Studying Organizational Configurations
NB: Re-worked version available as WP2005-30.
WP2004-23 [Posted on 10-July-2004]
Charles C. RAGIN (University of Arizona) and John SONNETT (University
of Arizona)
Between Complexity and Parsimony:
Limited Diversity, Counterfactual Cases, and Comparative Analysis
WP 2004-22 [Posted
on 02-June-2004]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona) and Jack S. LEVY (Rutgers University)
Causal Explanations, Necessary conditions,
and Case Studies
WP 2004-21
[Posted on 25-May-2004]
Kenneth NELSON (Swedish Institute for Social Research)
The Last Resort. Determinants of Generosity
of Means-Tested Minimum Income Protection in Welfare Democracies
WP 2004-20 [Posted on 15-Apr-2004]
Lasse CRONQVIST (Marburg University)
Presentation of
TOSMANA. Adding Multi-Value Variables and Visual Aids to QCA
(Re-worked version of WP 2003-14)
WP 2004-19 [Posted on 30-Jan-2004]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona) and James MAHONEY (Brown University)
Two-Level Theories
and Fuzzy Sets
WP 2004-18 [Posted on 30-Jan-2004]
James MAHONEY (Brown University) and Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
The Possibility Principle:
choosing negative cases in comparative research
2003
WP 2003-17 [Posted on 29-Sept-2003]
Alain GOTTCHEINER (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Contradictions and their
use in falsification : the case of comparative linguistics and QCA's contribution
WP 2003-16 [Posted on 24-Sept-2003]
David LEVI-FAUR (University of Haifa and Australian National University)
Comparative Research Designs
in the Study of Regulation: How to Increase the Number of Cases without
Compromising the Strengths of Case-Oriented Analysis
WP 2003-15 [Posted on 24-Sept-2003]
Jon KVIST (Danish National Institute of Social Research)
CONCEPTUALISATION, CONFIGURATION, AND CATEGORISATION
- DIVERSITY, IDEAL TYPES AND FUZZY SETS IN COMPARATIVE WELFARE STATE RESEARCH
WP 2003-14 [Posted on 23-Sept-2003]
Lasse CRONQVIST (Marburg University)
Presentation of TOSMANA. Adding Multi-Value Variables and Visual Aids
to QCA
(Re-worked version available as WP2004-20)
WP 2003-13 [Posted on 23-Sept-2003]
Tsutomu WATANABE (Shinshu University)
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
WP 2003-12 [Posted on 23-Sept-2003]
Catherine MOURY (University of Siena and Université catholique
de Louvain)
Use of Fuzzy Set in an Explanatory
Research: a Study on the Characteristics of Coalition Agreement
WP 2003-11 [Posted on 23-Sept-2003]
Patrick DUMONT (Université catholique de Louvain) and Hanna
BÄCK(Uppsala University)
Why
So Few, and So Late? Green Parties and the Question of Governmental Participation
WP 2003-10 [Posted on 10-Sept-2003]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Making
Comparative Analysis Count
WP 2003-9 [Posted on 21-Aug-2003]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Recent advances in fuzzy-set
methods and their application to policy questions
WP 2003-8 [Posted on 4-Aug-2003]
James MAHONEY (Brown University) and Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
The Possibility Principle
and case selection: choosing negative cases in comparative analysis
WP 2003-7 [Posted on 11-June-2003]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
Assessing the importance of
necessary or sufficient conditions in fuzzy-set social science
WP 2003-6 [Posted on 13-May-2003]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona) and James MAHONEY (Brown University)
Two-level theories
and fuzzy logic
WP 2003-5 [Posted on 12-Jan-2003]
[Removed Nov. 2004][Updated version as WP2007-48]
Olav Schram STOKKE (The Fridtjof
Nansen Institute)
Boolean analysis, mechanisms, and the study of regime effectiveness
NB: An
updated and published version of this WP is available as
WP2007-48. See also:
Stokke, Olav Schram (2004). "Boolean Analysis, Mechanisms, and the Study
of Regime Effectiveness". Arild Underdal and Oran R. Young (eds.), Regime
Consequences: Methodological Challenges and Research Strategies. Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic. pp. 87-119.
2002
WP 2002-4 [Posted on 19-Nov-2002]
Corentin CURCHOD (Ecole Polytechnique)
Diversity-oriented research.
Between complexity and generality
WP 2002-3 [Posted on 8-Nov-2002]
Corentin CURCHOD (Ecole Polytechnique)
La méthode comparative en sciences
de gestion : Vers une approche quali-quantitative de la réalité managériale
WP 2002-2 [Posted on 5-Nov-2002]
Dirk BERG-SCHLOSSER (Philipps-University, Institute of Political Science)
Macro-quantitative
vs macro-qualitative methods in the social sciences - testing empirical
theories of democracy
WP 2002-1 [Posted on 31-Oct-2002]
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER, Claudius WAGEMANN (European University
Institute, Dpt of Political and Social Sciences)
How to draw causal inference (despite) using QCA: the 'two-step,
multi-equation FS/QCA approach'
NB: Re-worked version available as WP2005-35.
Last modified: 05-Nov-2008
Benoît RIHOUX, Centre de Politique Comparée
Gisèle
DE MEUR, Lab.
de recherche en MAThématiques et sciences humaines
Afdeling
Arbeids- en Organisatiesociologie
Peter BURSENS,
Onderzoeksgroep
Internationale Politiek