Qualitative comparative analysis : an introduction to research design and application /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mello, Patrick A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2021].
Subjects:	Social sciences > Research > Methodology. Social sciences > Statistical methods.

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.