COMPASSS Working Paper
Classified by themes (without abstract)
csQCA
WP2011-67 [Published on 18-November-2011]
Luka Bareis (London School of Economics and Political Science)
UN arms embargo violations - it takes two to tango: A QCA perspective
WP2010-58 [Published on 04-May-2010]
Tom Delreux & Delphine Hesters (KULeuven)
Solving contradictory simplifying assumptions in QCA: presentation of a
new best practice
WP2008-54 [Posted on 06-November-2008]
Goertz ROHWER
Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Discussion of Interpretations
WP2007-51 [Posted on 4-Nov-2007]
Claudius WAGEMANN (Instituto italiano di scienze umane) and Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER (Central European University)
Standards of Good Practice in Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy-Sets
WP2007-50 [Posted on 7-Oct-2007]
Adrian DUSA (University of Bucharest)
QCA Graphical User Interface Manual
NB: published in Journal of Business Research. This is an updated version of WP2006-41
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. This is an 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?
WP2007-45 [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)
NB: published in Sociological Methods and Research
WP2006-43 [Posted on 30-June-2006]
Axel MARX (Hogheschool Antwerp)
Towards more Robust Model Specification in QCA Results from a Methodological Experiment
WP2006-41 [Posted on 20-June-2006]
Adrian DUSA (University of Bucharest)
QCA Graphical User Interface manual
NB: an updated version is available as WP2007-50
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 Representation 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
WP2005-35 [Posted on 7-Nov-2005]
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER (Central European University) and Claudius WAGEMANN (European University Institute)
Reducing Complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Remote and Proximate Factors and the Consolidation of Democracy
NB: published in European Journal of Political Research. This is an updated version of the WP2002-1
WP2005-34 [Posted on 12-Oct-2005]
Svend-Erik SKAANING (University of Aarhus)
Respect for Civil Liberties in Post-Communist Countries: A Multi-Methodological Test of Structural Explanations
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: published in a monograph edited by the authors: Causal Explanations, Necessary conditions, and Case Studies: World War I and the end of the Cold War.
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
WP2004-27 [Posted on 11-October-2004]
Astrid SPREITZER (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna) and Sakura YAMASAKI (UCLouvain)
Beyond Methodological Tenets - The Worlds of QCA and SNA and their Benefit to Policy Analysis
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
NB: Published in Journal of Business Research
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
NB : published in a monograph edited by Sabine KROPP and Michael MINKENBERG: Vergleichen in der Politikwissenschap
WP2004-22 [Posted on 02-June-2004]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona) and Jack S. LEVY (Rutgers University)
Causal Explanations, Necessary conditions, and Case Studies
NB: an updated version is available as WP2005-31.
WP2004-21 [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
WP2004-18 [Posted on 30-Jan-2004]
James MAHONEY (Brown University) and Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research
N.B.: This is an updated version of WP2003-8
WP2003-17 [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
WP2003-16 [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
WP2003-13 [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
WP2003-11 [Posted on 23-Sept-2003]
Patrick DUMONT (UCLouvain) and Hanna BÄCK (Uppsala University)
Why So Few, and So Late? Green Parties and the Question of Governmental Participation
WP2003-10 [Posted on 10-Sept-2003]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Making Comparative Analysis Counts
WP2003-8 [Posted on 4-Aug-2003]
James MAHONEY (Brown University) and Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research
NB: An updated version is available as WP2004-18
WP2003-5 [Posted on 12-Jan-2003]
Olav Schram STOKKE (The Fridtjof Nansen Institute)
Boolean Analysis, Mechanisms, and the Study of Regime Effectiveness
NB: published in a book edited by Arild UNDERDAL and Oran R. YOUNG, Regime Consequences: Methodological Challenges and Research Strategies. An updated version is available as WP2007-48
WP2002-4 [Posted on 19-Nov-2002]
Corentin CURCHOD (Ecole Polytechnique)
Diversity-Oriented Research. Between Complexity and Generality
WP2002-3 [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
WP2002-2 [Posted on 5-Nov-2002]
Dirk BERG-SCHLOSSER (Philipps Marburg University)
Macro-Quantitative vs Macro-Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences - Testing Empirical Theories of Democracy
WP2002-1 [Posted on 31-Oct-2002]
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER and Claudius WAGEMANN (European University Institute)
How to Draw Causal Inference (Despite) Using QCA: the ‘Two-Step, Multi-Equation FS/QCA Approach’
NB: an updated version is available as WP2005-35
fsQCA
WP2011-66 [Published on 28-October-2011]
Dylan Baun (University of Arizona)
From social tension to protracted civil conflict: Using fsQCA to analyze conflict in Lebanon
WP2011-65 [Published on 27-June-2011]
Trineke Palm (VU University Amsterdam)
Embedded in social cleavages: An explanation of the variation in timing of women's suffrage
WP2011-63 [Published on 10-February-2011]
John Hudson & Stefan Kuehner (University of York)
Analysing the productive and protective dimensions of welfare: Looking beyond the OECD
WP2010-62 [Published on 16-November-2010]
Mario Quaranta (Italian Institute of Human Sciences, Florence)
Concept structures and fuzzy set theory: a proposal for concept
formation and operationalization
WP2010-61 [Published on 04-October-2010]
Alrik Thiem (ETH Zurich)
Set-Relational Fit and the Formulation of Transformational Rules
in fsQCA
WP2010-60 [Published on 29-September-2010]
Patrick Emmenegger (University of Southern Denmark)
Non-events in macro-comparative social research:
Why we should care and how we can analyze them
WP2010-57 [Published on 08-March-2010]
Victor Cebotari (Maastricht University)
Protesting Ethnic Minorities in Europe: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis
WP2009-56 [Published on 05-November-2009] - Second Compasss Working Paper published since introduction of new PEER REVIEW process in January 2009!
Seungyoon Sophia LEE (University of Oxford)
Rethinking the New Risk Discussion. Risk Shifts in 18 Post-industrial Economies
WP2009-55 [Published on 05-October-2009] - First Compasss Working Paper published since introduction of new PEER REVIEW process in January 2009!
Mattias LARSEN (Gothenburg University)
Vulnerable Daughters in Times of Change: A Set-Theoretic Analysis of the ‘Missing Girls’ Problem in India
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
WP2007-51 [Posted on 4-Nov-2007]
Claudius WAGEMANN (Instituto italiano di scienze umane) and Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER (Central European University)
Standards of Good Practice in Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy-Sets
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)
NB: published in Sociological Methods and Research
WP2007-44 [Posted on 25-January-2007]
Charles C. RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Fuzzy Sets: Calibration Versus Measurement
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: published in Policy & Politics
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: published in the book edited by Jochen CLASEN and Nico SIEGEL (eds.), Welfare Reform in Advanced Societies
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 Representation of QCA and FS/QCA Results
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
WP2005-35 [Posted on 7-Nov-2005]
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER (Central European University) and Claudius WAGEMANN (European University Institute)
Reducing Complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Remote and Proximate Factors and the Consolidation of Democracy
NB: published in European Journal of Political Research. This is an updated version of the WP2002-1
WP2005-34 [Posted on 12-Oct-2005]
Svend-Erik SKAANING (University of Aarhus)
Respect for Civil Liberties in Post-Communist Countries: A Multi-Methodological Test of Structural Explanations
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: published in the Journal of Business Research
WP2005-30 [Posted on 14-January-2005]
Peer C. FISS (Queen's School of Business)
A Set-Theoretic Approach to Organizational Configurations
NB: published in Academy of Management Review. This is an updated version of WP2004-24
WP2004-28 [Posted on 7-December-2004]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
From Fuzzy Sets to Crisp Truth Tables
NB: This is an updated version of WP2004-26
WP2004-26 [Posted on 6-September-2004]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
From Fuzzy Sets to Crisp Truth Tables
NB: an updated version available as WP2004-28
WP2004-24 [Posted on 3-August-2004]
Peer C. FISS (Queen's University)
Towards a Set-theoretic Approach for Studying Organizational Configurations
NB: published in Academy of Management Review. An updated version is 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
NB : published in a monograph edited by Sabine KROPP and Michael MINKENBERG: Vergleichen in der Politikwissenschap
WP2004-22 [Posted on 02-June-2004]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona) and Jack S. LEVY (Rutgers University)
Causal Explanations, Necessary conditions, and Case Studies
NB: an updated version is available as WP2005-31.
WP2004-19 [Posted on 30-Jan-2004]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona) and James MAHONEY (Brown University)
Two-Level Theories and Fuzzy Sets
NB: This is an updated version of WP2003-6
WP2004-18 [Posted on 30-Jan-2004]
James MAHONEY (Brown University) and Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research
N.B.: This is an updated version of WP2003-8
WP2003-15 [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
WP2003-12 [Posted on 23-Sept-2003]
Catherine MOURY (University of Siena and UCLouvain)
Use of Fuzzy Set in an Explanatory Research: a Study on the Characteristics of Coalition Agreement
WP2003-10 [Posted on 10-Sept-2003]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Making Comparative Analysis Counts
WP2003-9 [Posted on 21-Aug-2003]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Recent Advances in Fuzzy-Set Methods and Their Application to Policy Questions
WP2003-8 [Posted on 4-Aug-2003]
James MAHONEY (Brown University) and Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research
NB: An updated version is available as WP2004-18
WP2003-7 [Posted on 11-June-2003]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
Assessing the Importance of Necessary or Sufficient Conditions in Fuzzy-Set Social Science
WP2003-6 [Posted on 13-May-2003]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona) and James MAHONEY (Brown University)
Two-Level Theories and Fuzzy Sets
NB: an updated version is available as 2004-19
WP2002-4 [Posted on 19-Nov-2002]
Corentin CURCHOD (Ecole Polytechnique)
Diversity-Oriented Research. Between Complexity and Generality
WP2002-1 [Posted on 31-Oct-2002]
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER and Claudius WAGEMANN (European University Institute)
How to Draw Causal Inference (Despite) Using QCA: the ‘Two-Step, Multi-Equation FS/QCA Approach’
NB: an updated version is available as WP2005-35
mvQCA
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: forthcoming in Field Methods
WP2007-51 [Posted on 4-Nov-2007]
Claudius WAGEMANN (Instituto italiano di scienze umane) and Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER (Central European University)
Standards of Good Practice in Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy-Sets
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)
NB: published in Sociological Methods and Research
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 Representation of QCA and FS/QCA Results
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 [
WP2005-35 [Posted on 7-Nov-2005]
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER (Central European University) and Claudius WAGEMANN (European University Institute)
Reducing Complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Remote and Proximate Factors and the Consolidation of Democracy
NB: published in European Journal of Political Research. This is an updated version of the WP2002-1
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: published in a monograph edited by the authors: Causal Explanations, Necessary conditions, and Case Studies: World War I and the end of the Cold War.
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
NB : published in a monograph edited by Sabine KROPP and Michael MINKENBERG: Vergleichen in der Politikwissenschap
WP2004-22 [Posted on 02-June-2004]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona) and Jack S. LEVY (Rutgers University)
Causal Explanations, Necessary conditions, and Case Studies
NB: an updated version is available as WP2005-31.
WP2004-20 [Posted on 15-Apr-2004]
Lasse CRONQVIST (Marburg University)
Presentation of TOSMANA. Adding Multi-Value Variables and Visual Aids to QCA
NB: This is an updated version of WP2003-14
WP2004-18 [Posted on 30-Jan-2004]
James MAHONEY (Brown University) and Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research
N.B.: This is an updated version of WP2003-8
WP2003-14 [Posted on 23-Sept-2003]
Lasse CRONQVIST (Marburg University)
Presentation of TOSMANA. Adding Multi-Value Variables and Visual Aids to QCA
NB: An updated version is available as WP2004-20
WP2003-10 [Posted on 10-Sept-2003]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Making Comparative Analysis Counts
WP2003-8 [Posted on 4-Aug-2003]
James MAHONEY (Brown University) and Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research
NB: An updated version is available as WP2004-18
WP2002-1 [Posted on 31-Oct-2002]
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER and Claudius WAGEMANN (European University Institute)
How to Draw Causal Inference (Despite) Using QCA: the ‘Two-Step, Multi-Equation FS/QCA Approach’
NB: an updated version is available as WP2005-35
Empirical papers
WP2011-67 [Published on 18-November-2011]
Luka Bareis (London School of Economics and Political Science)
UN arms embargo violations - it takes two to tango: A QCA perspective
WP2011-66 [Published on 28-October-2011]
Dylan Baun (University of Arizona)
From social tension to protracted civil conflict: Using fsQCA to analyze conflict in Lebanon
WP2011-65 [Published on 27-June-2011]
Trineke Palm (VU University Amsterdam)
Embedded in social cleavages: An explanation of the variation in timing of women's suffrage
WP2011-63 [Published on 10-February-2011]
John Hudson & Stefan Kuehner (University of York)
Analysing the productive and protective dimensions of welfare: Looking beyond the OECD
WP2010-60 [Published on 29-September-2010]
Patrick Emmenegger (University of Southern Denmark)
Non-events in macro-comparative social research:
Why we should care and how we can analyze them
WP2010-57 [Published on 08-March-2010]
Victor Cebotari (Maastricht University)
Protesting Ethnic Minorities in Europe: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis
WP2009-56 [Published on 05-November-2009] - Second Compasss Working Paper published since introduction of new PEER REVIEW process in January 2009!
Seungyoon Sophia LEE (University of Oxford)
Rethinking the New Risk Discussion. Risk Shifts in 18 Post-industrial Economies
WP2009-55 [Published on 05-October-2009] - First Compasss Working Paper published since introduction of new PEER REVIEW process in January 2009!
Mattias LARSEN (Gothenburg University)
Vulnerable Daughters in Times of Change: A Set-Theoretic Analysis of the ‘Missing Girls’ Problem in India
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
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. This is an 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?
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: published in Policy & Politics
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: published in the book edited by Jochen CLASEN and Nico SIEGEL (eds.), Welfare Reform in Advanced Societies
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
WP2006-36[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
WP2005-34 [Posted on 12-Oct-2005]
Svend-Erik SKAANING (University of Aarhus)
Respect for Civil Liberties in Post-Communist Countries: A Multi-Methodological Test of Structural Explanations
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: published in the Journal of Business Research
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: published in a monograph edited by the authors: Causal Explanations, Necessary conditions, and Case Studies: World War I and the end of the Cold War.
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
WP2004-27 [Posted on 11-October-2004]
Astrid SPREITZER (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna) and Sakura YAMASAKI (UCLouvain)
Beyond Methodological Tenets - The Worlds of QCA and SNA and their Benefit to Policy Analysis
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
NB: Published in Journal of Business Research
WP2004-21 [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
WP2003-17 [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
WP2003-16 [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
WP2003-15 [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
WP2003-??
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
WP2003-12 [Posted on 23-Sept-2003]
Catherine MOURY (University of Siena and UCLouvain)
Use of Fuzzy Set in an Explanatory Research: a Study on the Characteristics of Coalition Agreement
WP2003-11 [Posted on 23-Sept-2003]
Patrick DUMONT (UCLouvain) and Hanna BÄCK (Uppsala University)
Why So Few, and So Late? Green Parties and the Question of Governmental Participation
WP2003-9 [Posted on 21-Aug-2003]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Recent Advances in Fuzzy-Set Methods and Their Application to Policy Questions
WP2003-5 [Posted on 12-Jan-2003]
Olav Schram STOKKE (The Fridtjof Nansen Institute)
Boolean Analysis, Mechanisms, and the Study of Regime Effectiveness
NB: published in a book edited by Arild UNDERDAL and Oran R. YOUNG, Regime Consequences: Methodological Challenges and Research Strategies. An updated version is available as WP2007-48
WP2002-2 [Posted on 5-Nov-2002]
Dirk BERG-SCHLOSSER (Philipps Marburg University)
Macro-Quantitative vs Macro-Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences - Testing Empirical Theories of Democracy
Approach – Discussion (about espistemology, ontology, etc)
WP2011-64 [Published on 20-April-2011]
Tom Mannewitz (Technical University of Chemnitz)
Two-level theories in QCA: A discussion of Schneider and Wagemann's Two-step approach
WP2010-62 [Published on 16-November-2010]
Mario Quaranta (Italian Institute of Human Sciences, Florence)
Concept structures and fuzzy set theory: a proposal for concept
formation and operationalization
WP2010-60 [Published on 29-September-2010]
Patrick Emmenegger (University of Southern Denmark)
Non-events in macro-comparative social research:
Why we should care and how we can analyze them
WP2010-59 [Published on 29-September-2010]
Patrick Emmenegger (University of Southern Denmark)
How good are your counterfactuals? Assessing quantitative macro-comparative welfare state research
with qualitative criteria
WP2008-54 [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
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: forthcoming in Field Methods
WP2007-51 [Posted on 4-Nov-2007]
Claudius WAGEMANN (Instituto italiano di scienze umane) and Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER (Central European University)
Standards of Good Practice in Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy-Sets
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
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)
NB: published in Sociological Methods and Research
WP2007-44 [Posted on 25-January-2007]
Charles C. RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Fuzzy Sets: Calibration Versus Measurement
WP2006-43 [Posted on 30-June-2006]
Axel MARX (Hogheschool Antwerp)
Towards more Robust Model Specification in QCA Results from a Methodological Experiment
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 Representation of QCA and FS/QCA Results
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
WP2005-35 [Posted on 7-Nov-2005]
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER (Central European University) and Claudius WAGEMANN (European University Institute)
Reducing Complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Remote and Proximate Factors and the Consolidation of Democracy
NB: published in European Journal of Political Research. This is an updated version of the WP2002-1
WP2005-34 [Posted on 12-Oct-2005]
Svend-Erik SKAANING (University of Aarhus)
Respect for Civil Liberties in Post-Communist Countries: A Multi-Methodological Test of Structural Explanations
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: published in the Journal of Business Research
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: published in a monograph edited by the authors: Causal Explanations, Necessary conditions, and Case Studies: World War I and the end of the Cold War.
WP2004-28 [Posted on 7-December-2004]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
From Fuzzy Sets to Crisp Truth Tables
NB: This is an updated version of WP2004-26
WP2004-26 [Posted on 6-September-2004]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
From Fuzzy Sets to Crisp Truth Tables
NB: an updated version available as WP2004-28
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
NB : published in a monograph edited by Sabine KROPP and Michael MINKENBERG: Vergleichen in der Politikwissenschap
WP2004-22 [Posted on 02-June-2004]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona) and Jack S. LEVY (Rutgers University)
Causal Explanations, Necessary conditions, and Case Studies
NB: an updated version is available as WP2005-31.
WP2004-20 [Posted on 15-Apr-2004]
Lasse CRONQVIST (Marburg University)
Presentation of TOSMANA. Adding Multi-Value Variables and Visual Aids to QCA
NB: This is an updated version of WP2003-14
WP2004-19 [Posted on 30-Jan-2004]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona) and James MAHONEY (Brown University)
Two-Level Theories and Fuzzy Sets
NB: This is an updated version of WP2003-6
WP2004-18 [Posted on 30-Jan-2004]
James MAHONEY (Brown University) and Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research
N.B.: This is an updated version of WP2003-8
WP2003-16 [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
WP2003-14 [Posted on 23-Sept-2003]
Lasse CRONQVIST (Marburg University)
Presentation of TOSMANA. Adding Multi-Value Variables and Visual Aids to QCA
NB: An updated version is available as WP2004-20
WP2003-10 [Posted on 10-Sept-2003]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Making Comparative Analysis Counts
WP2003-9 [Posted on 21-Aug-2003]
Charles RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Recent Advances in Fuzzy-Set Methods and Their Application to Policy Questions
WP2003-8 [Posted on 4-Aug-2003]
James MAHONEY (Brown University) and Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
The Possibility Principle: Choosing Negative Cases in Comparative Research
NB: An updated version is available as WP2004-18
WP2003-7 [Posted on 11-June-2003]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona)
Assessing the Importance of Necessary or Sufficient Conditions in Fuzzy-Set Social Science
WP2003-6 [Posted on 13-May-2003]
Gary GOERTZ (University of Arizona) and James MAHONEY (Brown University)
Two-Level Theories and Fuzzy Sets
NB: an updated version is available as 2004-19
WP2002-4 [Posted on 19-Nov-2002]
Corentin CURCHOD (Ecole Polytechnique)
Diversity-Oriented Research. Between Complexity and Generality
WP2002-3 [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
WP2002-1 [Posted on 31-Oct-2002]
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER and Claudius WAGEMANN (European University Institute) How to Draw Causal Inference (Despite) Using QCA: the ‘Two-Step, Multi-Equation FS/QCA Approach’ NB: an updated version is available as WP2005-35
Technical matters
WP2010-62 [Published on 16-November-2010]
Mario Quaranta (Italian Institute of Human Sciences, Florence)
Concept structures and fuzzy set theory: a proposal for concept
formation and operationalization
WP2010-61 [Published on 04-October-2010]
Alrik Thiem (ETH Zurich)
Set-Relational Fit and the Formulation of Transformational Rules
in fsQCA
WP2010-60 [Published on 29-September-2010]
Patrick Emmenegger (University of Southern Denmark)
Non-events in macro-comparative social research:
Why we should care and how we can analyze them
WP2010-59 [Published on 29-September-2010]
Patrick Emmenegger (University of Southern Denmark)
How good are your counterfactuals?
Assessing quantitative macro-comparative welfare state research
with qualitative criteria
WP2010-58 [Published on 04-May-2010]
Tom Delreux & Delphine Hesters (KULeuven)
Solving contradictory simplifying assumptions in QCA: presentation of a
new best practice
WP2007-51 [Posted on 4-Nov-2007]
Claudius WAGEMANN (Instituto italiano di scienze umane) and Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER (Central European University)
Standards of Good Practice in Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy-Sets
WP2007-50 [Posted on 7-Oct-2007]
Adrian DUSA (University of Bucharest)
QCA Graphical User Interface Manual
NB: published in Journal of Business Research. This is an updated version of WP2006-41
WP2007-49 [Posted on 5-Oct-2007]
Adrian DUSA (University of Bucharest)
Enhancing Quine-McCluskey
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
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)
NB: published in Sociological Methods and Research
WP2007-44 [Posted on 25-January-2007]
Charles C. RAGIN (University of Arizona)
Fuzzy Sets: Calibration Versus Measurement
WP2006-43 [Posted on 30-June-2006]
Axel MARX (Hogheschool Antwerp)
Towards more Robust Model Specification in QCA Results from a Methodological Experiment
WP2006-41 [Posted on 20-June-2006]
Adrian DUSA (University of Bucharest)
QCA Graphical User Interface manual
NB: an updated version is available as WP2007-50
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 Representation of QCA and FS/QCA Results
WP2005-35 [Posted on 7-Nov-2005]
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER (Central European University) and Claudius WAGEMANN (European University Institute)
Reducing Complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Remote and Proximate Factors and the Consolidation of Democracy
NB: published in European Journal of Political Research. This is an updated version of the WP2002-1
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
NB : published in a monograph edited by Sabine KROPP and Michael MINKENBERG: Vergleichen in der Politikwissenschap
WP2004-20 [Posted on 15-Apr-2004]
Lasse CRONQVIST (Marburg University)
Presentation of TOSMANA. Adding Multi-Value Variables and Visual Aids to QCA
NB: This is an updated version of WP2003-14
WP2003-16 [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
WP2003-14 [Posted on 23-Sept-2003]
Lasse CRONQVIST (Marburg University)
Presentation of TOSMANA. Adding Multi-Value Variables and Visual Aids to QCA
NB: An updated version is available as WP2004-20
WP2002-1 [Posted on 31-Oct-2002]
Carsten Q. SCHNEIDER and Claudius WAGEMANN (European University Institute)
How to Draw Causal Inference (Despite) Using QCA: the ‘Two-Step, Multi-Equation FS/QCA Approach’
NB: an updated version is available as WP2005-35