Qualitative Comparative Analysis with R A User’s Guide /

• Main Authors: Thiem, Alrik (Author), Duşa, Adrian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science, 5
• Subjects: Political science.; Statistics.; Social sciences.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Social Sciences, general.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

Social science theory often builds on sets and their relations. Correlation-based methods of scientific enquiry, however, use linear algebra and are unsuited to analyzing set relations. The development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) by Charles Ragin has given social scientists a formal to...