Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Learning from Cases
Seiten
2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-83910-451-0 (ISBN)
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-83910-451-0 (ISBN)
Emphasising the Q in qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), Roel Rutten presents QCA as a thoroughly qualitative method to help researchers learn from cases. He highlights that while Boolean expressions describing cross-case patterns are QCA’s most conspicuous element, they do not amount to causal explanations.
Throughout the book, Rutten demonstrates how QCA’s interpretive logic pervades every step of a QCA study. He uses critical realism as a philosophical foundation to explain how QCA researchers develop their partial and perspectival knowledge of cases into Boolean expressions. Proposing multi-level sets as a way to acknowledge the diversity of social reality, Rutten criticises the use of fuzzy sets in QCA as a poor match to QCA’s threshold logic.
Comprehensive and innovative, this book is a vital read for social science methods experts and users. It is also an important book for QCA experts and students looking for a deeper understanding of QCA.
Throughout the book, Rutten demonstrates how QCA’s interpretive logic pervades every step of a QCA study. He uses critical realism as a philosophical foundation to explain how QCA researchers develop their partial and perspectival knowledge of cases into Boolean expressions. Proposing multi-level sets as a way to acknowledge the diversity of social reality, Rutten criticises the use of fuzzy sets in QCA as a poor match to QCA’s threshold logic.
Comprehensive and innovative, this book is a vital read for social science methods experts and users. It is also an important book for QCA experts and students looking for a deeper understanding of QCA.
Roel Rutten, Associate Professor, Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University and Senior Research Consultant, European Regional Affairs Consultants (ERAC), the Netherlands
Contents
Preface
1 QCA: learning from cases
2 The Ragin revolution
3 A theory of causality for QCA
4 Cases, case populations and generalization
5 Boolean algebra
6 The case-based causal logic
7 Set analysis
8 Calibration and aggregation
9 Reservations against fuzzy sets in QCA
10 The truth table analysis
11 Calibration and confounding conditions in a large-N example
12 Getting QCA right: a small-N example
13 Capturing the logic and practice of QCA
References
Appendix: Resources
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83910-451-1 / 1839104511 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83910-451-0 / 9781839104510 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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