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  title info:
    title: Qualitative comparative analysis
    sub title: an introduction to research design and application
  name:
    name part: Mello, Patrick A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 241 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes. Drawing on set theory and the language of necessary and sufficient conditions, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a case-based research method that is ideally suited to capture causal complexity. QCA regards cases as combinations of conditions. It compares the conditions of each case in a structured way to identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for an outcome. While QCA has become increasingly popular and seen a substantial increase of applications across the social sciences and management, introductory textbooks have not kept pace with this development. In this textbook, Patrick A. Mello teaches students, scholars and self-learners the fundamentals of QCA, research design, interpretation of results and how to communicate findings. This concise and accessible textbook provides a hands-on introduction to QCA that will be ideal for use within a broader qualitative methods course and in intensive short courses.
  table of contents: Research design -- Set theory -- Causation and causal complexity -- Calibrating sets -- Measures of fit -- Set-theoretic analysis -- QCA variants -- QCA and its critics.
  note: Patrick A. Mello.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Research
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Statistical methods
  classification: H62 .M38 2021
  classification: 300.72/1
  identifier: 9781647121440
  identifier: 1647121442
  identifier: 9781647121457
  identifier: 1647121450
  identifier: 9781647121464
  identifier: 2021004429
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210201
    record change date: 20220526133403.9
    record identifier: in00004576545