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AAREBROT, Frank H. and BAKKA, Pal H. (1997), "Die vergleichende Methode in der Politikwissenschaft", in BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk and MÜLLER-ROMMEL, Ferdinand (eds), Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 3rd ed., Opladen, Leske & Budrich, pp. 49-66.

AAREBROT, Frank H. and BAKKA, Pal H. (2003), "Die vergleichende Methode in der Politikwissenschaft", in BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk and MÜLLER-ROMMEL, Ferdinand (eds), Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft: Ein einführendes Studienhandbuch 4th ed., Wiesbaden, VS-Verlag, pp. 57-76.

ABBOTT, Andrew (1992), "What Do Cases Do? Some Notes on Activity in Sociological Analysis", in RAGIN, Charles C. and BECKER, Howard S. (eds), What Is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry, New-York, Cambridge University Press, pp. 53-82.

ABEDI, Amir (ed) (2004), Anti-Political Establishment Parties, London, Routledge.

ACHEN, Christopher H. (2005), "Two Cheers for Charles Ragin", Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID), 40, 1, 27-32.

AHRAM (2009), "The Challenge of Conceptual Stretching in Multi-Method Research", Qualitative & Multi-Method Research, 7, 2,

ALMOND, Gabriel A. and POWELL, Bingham G. Jr. (1978), Comparative Politics : System, Process, and Policy, 2nd ed., Boston, Little & Brown.

AMENTA, Edwin (1991), "Making the Most of a Case Study : Theories of the Welfare State and the American Experience", in RAGIN, Charles C. (ed.), Issues and Alternatives in Comparative Social Research, Leiden, E.J. Brill, pp. 172-194.

AMENTA, Edwin (2003), "What We Know About the Development of Social Policy: Comparative and Historical Research in Comparative and Historical Perspective", in MAHONEY, James and RUESCHEMEYER, Dietrich (eds), Comparative Historical Research, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ Press, pp. 91-130.

AMENTA, Edwin and POULSEN, Jane Duss (1996), "Social Politics in Context: the Institutional Politics Theory and Social Spending at the End of the New Deal", Social Forces, 75, 1, 33-60.

ANCKAR, Dag (1997), "Dominating Smallness. Big Parties in Lilliput Systems", Party Politics, 3, 2, 243-263.

ANONYMOUS (2006), Verifying and Integrating Qualitative Comparative Analysis (unpublished manuscript).

APTER, David E. (1996), "Comparative Politics, Old and New", in GOODIN, Robert E. and KLINGEMANN, Hans-Dieter (eds), A New Handbook of Political Science, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 372-400.

ARGYRIS, Chris (1968), "Effectiveness and Planning of Change", in SILLS, David L. (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, London, The Macmillan Company & The Free Press, pp. 311-319.

ARMINGEON, Klaus (2004), "Major Changes Without Regime Shifts: Switzerland and Japan in Comparative Perspective", Swiss Political Science Review, 10, 3, 5-30.

AYLOTT, Nicholas (2001), "Let's Discuss This Later. Party Responses to Euro-Division in Scandinavia", Party Politics, 8, 4, 441-461.

BADIE, Bertrand and HERMET, Guy (2001), La politique comparée, Paris, Armand Colin.

BAILEY, Kenneth D. (1994), Typologies and Taxonomies: an Introduction to Classification Techniques, Beverly Hills, Sage.

BALE, Tim (2005), Euopean Politics. A Comparative Introduction, New York, Palgrave Macmillan. (http://www.palgrave.com/politics/bale)

BARBIER, Jean-Claude and LETABLIER, Marie-Thérèse (eds) (2005), Politiques sociales. Enjeux méthodologiques et épistémologiques des comparaisons internationales, [Social Policies. Epistemological and Methodological Issues in Cross-National Comparison]., Bruxelles, P.I.E-Peter Lang.

BARTELS, Larry M. (2004), "Some Unfulfilled Promises of Quantitative Imperialism", in BRADY, Henry E. and COLLIER, David (eds), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, pp. 69-74.

BARTOLINI, Stefano (1993), "On Time and Comparative Research", Journal of Theoretical Politics, 5, 2, 131-167.

BATES, Diane C. (1997), Tourism and Development in the Caribbean: a Qualitative Comparative Analysis,Rutgers University (unpublished). ((M.A. Thesis, sociology, unpublished))

BECKER, Howard S. (1998), Tricks of the Trade: How to Think About Your Research While You'Re Doing It, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

---------- (2002), Les ficelles du métier. Un guide de recherche en sciences sociales, Paris, La Découverte.

BECKWITH, Karen (2000), "Beyond Compare? Women’s Movements in Comparative Perspective", European Journal of Political Research , 37, 431-468.

BEFANI, Barbara (2004), "La Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) e la valutazione basata sulla teoria: un connubio possibile", Rassegna Italiana Di Valutazione, 2,

BENDIX, Reinhart (1968), "Max Weber", in SILLS, David L. (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, London, The Macmillan Company & The Free Press, pp. 493-502.

BENNETT, Andrew (9.1999), "Causal Inference in Case Studies: From Mill's Methods to Causal Mechanisms", paper presented at : American Political Science Association Conference, Atlanta. (online at : http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bennetta/APSA99.html)

______ (2001), Qualitative Research Methods (Course Syllabus, Georgetown University) (unpublished manuscript). (Online at : http://www.asu.edu/clas/polisci/cqrm/syllabi/Bennett2001.html)

---------- (2004), "Case Study Methods: Design, Use, and Comparative Advantages", in SPRINZ, Detlef F. and NAHMIAS-WOLINSKY, Yael (Eds), Models, Numbers and Cases: Methods for Studying International Relations, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, pp. 19-55.

Bennett, Andrew and Bear Braumoeller, "Where the Model Frequently Meets the Road: Combining Statistical, Formal, and Case Study Methods ." (forthcoming):forthcoming.

BENNETT, Andrew and GEORGE, Alexander L. (1998), "An Alliance of Statistical and Case Study Methods : Research on the Interdemocratic Peace", APSA-CP. Newsletter of the APSA Organized Section in Comparative Politics, 9, 1, 5-. (Online at : http://www.shelley.polisci.ucla.edu/apsacp/APSA-CP_Winter_1998.pdf)

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

BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk (1998), "Conditions of Authoritarianism, Fascism and Democracy in Inter-War Europe. a Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis", International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 39, 4, 335-377.

---------- (2000), "Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis", in BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk and MITCHELL, Jeremy (eds), Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Systematic Case Studies, Basingstoke, New York, Macmillan, pp. 285-315.

BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk (2001), "Comparative Studies - Method and Design", in SMELSER, Neil J. and BALTES, Paul B. (eds), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pergamon, Oxford, pp. 2427-2433.

BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk (2002), "Macro-Quantitative Vs Macro-Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences - Testing Empirical Theories of Democracy", paper presented at : Colloque de la Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée "Faire de la politique comparée au 21eme siecle" Atelier 2:outils méthodologiques, Bordeaux, France,

---------- (2004), "Evaluation critique des indicateurs de la démocratisation et de la bonne gouvernance", in THIRIOT, Céline, MARTY, Marianne , and NADAL, Emmanuel (eds), Penser la politique comparée. Un état des savoirs théoriques et méthodologiques., Paris, Editions Karthala, pp. 249-278.

BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk and DE MEUR, Gisèle (1992), "Conditions of Democracy in Inter-War Europe. A Boolean Test of Major Hypotheses", Discussion Paper. Centre d'Economie Mathématique et d'Econométrie. Université Libre de Bruxelles,

---------- (1994), "Conditions of Democracy in Interwar Europe: a Boolean Test of Major Hypotheses", Comparative Politics, 26, 3, 253-279.

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

BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk and DE MEUR, Gisèle (2008), "Comparative Research Design : Case and Variable Selection", in RIHOUX, Benoît and RAGIN, Charles C. (eds), Configurational Comparative Methods. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques, Thousand Oaks and London, Sage, pp. 19-32.

BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk, DE MEUR, Gisèle, RIHOUX, Benoît, and RAGIN, Charles C. (2008), "Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) As an Approach", in RIHOUX, Benoît and RAGIN, Charles C. (eds), Configurational Comparative Methods. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques, Thousand Oaks and London, Sage, pp. 1-18.

BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk and MITCHELL, Jeremy (eds) (2000), Conditions of Democracy in Europe, 1919-39: Systematic Case Studies , Basingstoke, New York, Macmillan Press, St Martin's Press.

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

BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk and QUENTER, Sven (1996 ), "Macro-Quantitative Versus Macro-Qualitative Methods in Political Science. Advantages and Disadvantages of Comparative Procedures Using the Welfare-State Theory As an Example", Historical Social Research, 21, 1, 3-25.

BERGÈS, Michel (1994), "Les conflits paradigmatiques de la comparaison", Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, 1, 1, 101-132.

BERNARD, H. Russell and RYAN, Gery (1998), "Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Text Analysis", in BERNARD, H. Russell (ed.), Hand-Book of Method in Cultural Anthropology, Walnut Creek, CA, Alta Mira Books, p. ?? (online at : http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~ufruss/txtana.html)

---------- (1998), "Text Analysis: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods", in BERNARD, H. Russel (ed), Handbook of Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology, ??, Sage, pp. 595-641. (online at : http://www.analytictech.com/mb870/bernard_ryan_text_analysis.pdf)

BERNHARD, Michael (2001), Seminar : Comparative Methods (Course Syllabus) (unpublished manuscript). (Online at : http://www.asu.edu/clas/polisci/cqrm/syllabi/bernhard.pdf)

BIGGERT, R. (1997), "Why Labor Wins, Why Labor Loses: a Test of Two Theories", The Sociological Quarterly, 38, 1, 205-224.

BLATTER, Joachim and BLUME, Till (2008), "In Search of Co-Variance, Causal Mechanisms or Congruence? Towards a Plural Understanding of Case Studies", Swiss Political Science Review, 14, 2, 315-356.

BLEIKLIE, Ivar A., GOGGIN, Malcolm L., and ROTHMAYR, Christine (eds.) (2004), A Comparative Biomedical Policy. Governing Assisted Reproductive Technologies, New York, Routledge.

BLONDEL, Jean (1972), Comparing Political Systems, New York, Praeger.

---------- (1994), "Plaidoyer pour une conception oeucuménique de l'analyse comparée", Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, 1, 1, 5-18.

BOL, Damien (09.10/09.11/09.12.2009), "Assessing the Relevance of Necessary Conditions in Configurational Comparative Methods (CCM). The Example of Veto Players in the Process of Electoral Reform", paper presented at : ECPR General Conference, Potsdam,

BOLLEN, Kenneth A., ENTWISLE, Barbara, and ALDERSON, Arthur S. (1993), "Macrocomparative Research Methods", Annual Review of Sociology, 19, 321-351.

BOSWELL, Terry and BROWN, Cliff (1999), "The Scope of General Theory. Methods for Linking Deductive and Inductive Comparative History", Sociological Methods and Research, 28, 2, 154-185.

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BOX-STEFFENSMEIER, Janet M. and BRADFORD S. JONES (2004), Event History Modelling. A Guide for Social Scientists, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

BOY, Daniel and RIHOUX, Benoît (2001), "Les partis écologistes en France et en Europe", Notes Et Études Du CEVIPOF, 8,

BRADY, Henry E. (2004), "Data-Set Observations Versus Causal-Process Observations: the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election", in BRADY, Henry E. and COLLIER, David (eds), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards ed., Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, pp. 267-314.

---------- (2004), "Doing Good and Doing Better: How Far Does the Quantitative Template Get Us?", in BRADY, Henry E. and COLLIER, David (eds), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, pp. 53-68.

BRADY, Henry E. and COLLIER, David (eds) (2004), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

BRADY, Henry E., COLLIER, David, and SEAWRIGHT, Jason (2004), "Refocusing the Discussion of Methodology", in BRADY, Henry E. and COLLIER, David (eds), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, pp. 3-20.

BRADY, Henry E and SEAWRIGHT Jason (2004), Framing Social Inquiry: From Models of Causation to Statistically Based Causal Inference (unpublished manuscript).

BRITT, David W. (4.2.1998/4.5.1998), "Analyzing Context-Dependent Policy With Qualitative Comparative Analysis", paper presented at : Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, Panel on "Multi-Method Approaches to Policy Analysis", Kansas City,

BROWN, Cliff and BOSWELL, Terry (1995), "Strikebreaking or Solidarity in the Great Steel Strike of 1919: a Split L abor Market, Game-Theoretic, and QCA Analysis", American Journal of Sociology, 100, 6, 1479-1519.

BUDGE, Ian (1992), "Postwar Issues in 23 Democracies", ICPS Working Papers, 44, 69.

BURSENS, Peter (1999), "Bijlage 5: Uitwerking van de QCA analyse", in BURSENS, Peter, Impact van instituties op beleidsvorming. Een institutionneel perspectief op besluitvorming in de communautaire pijler van de Europese Unie [PhD dissertation, unpublished], Antwerpen, Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, pp. 409-419.

BURSENS, Peter (1999), Impact van instituties op beleidsvorming. Een institutionneel perspectief op besluitvorming in de communautaire pijler van de Europese Unie, Antwerpen, Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen (unpublished). (PhD dissertation, unpublished)

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CARAMANI, Daniele (forthcoming, 2008), Introduction to Comparative Method With Boolean Algebra , Thousand Oaks, Sage.

CAREN, Neal and PANOFSKY, Aaron (11.2005), "TQCA. A Technique for Adding Temporality to Qualitative Comparative Analysis", Sociological Methods & Research, 34, 2, 147-172.

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COLLIER, David, BRADY, Henry E., and SEAWRIGHT, Jason (Forthcoming, 2003), "Refocusing the Discussion of Methodology", in COLLIER, David and BRADY, Henry E. (eds.), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Boulder, CO and Berkeley, Roman & Littlefield and Berkeley Public Policy Press,

COLLIER, David, BRADY, Henry E, and SEAWRIGHT, Jason (2004), "Sources of Leverage in Causal Inference: Toward an Alternative View of Methodology", in BRADY, Henry E. and COLLIER, David (eds), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards ed., Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, pp. 229-266.

COLLIER, David, BRADYM HENRY E., and SEQWRIGHT, Jason (2004), "Critiques, Responses, and Trade-Offs: Drawing Together the Debate", in BRADY, Henry E. and COLLIER, David (eds), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards ed., Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, pp. 195-228.

COLLIER, David and MAHON, James E. JR. (1993), "Conceptual "Stretching" Revisited: Adapting Categories in Comparative Analysis", American Political Science Review, 87, 4, 845-855.

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COLLIER, David, MAHONEY, James, and SEAWRIGHT, Jason (2004), "Claiming Too Much: Warnings About Selection Bias", in BRADY, Henry E. and COLLIER, David (eds), Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, pp. 85-102.

COLLIER, David and MAHONEY, James E. (1993), "Conceptual "Stretching" Revisited: Adpating Categories in Comparative Analysis", Amercian Political Science Review, 87, 4, 845-855.

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DE MEUR, Gisèle and BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk (1994), "Comparing Political Systems: Establishing Similarities and Dissimilarities", European Journal of Political Research, 26, 2, 193-219.

DE MEUR, Gisèle and BERG-SCHLOSSER, Dirk (1996), "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, 423-468.

DE MEUR, Gisèle, RIHOUX, Benoît, and YAMASAKI, Sakura (2008), "Addressing the Critiques of QCA", in RIHOUX, Benoît and RAGIN, Charles C. (eds), Configurational Comparative Methods. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques, Thousand Oaks and London, Sage, pp. 147-166.

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