Article1994

Where to Begin

147 citations0/0 files storedSociological Methods & Research

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research Political Science Research and Education Qualitative Research Methods and Applications

Abstract

The problem of selecting independent variables for qualitiative comparative analysis (QCA) is addressed. This is a different problem for QCA than for inferential statistical methods, for both technical and epistemological reasons. Technically, QCA can manipulate only a few variables at one time. Epistemologically, QCA expects causation to work in a combinatorial fashion. The authors isolate and reject four ways of choosing independent variables for QCA and advocate a fifth method, the conjunctural theories approach, which is more compatible with the characteristics of QCA. Their decision is supported by way of discussion and an empirical analysis based on theories of the welfare state and U.S. social spending in the Great Depression.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 147 citations exist upstream.

References

1990The three worlds of welfare capitalism 1992Protecting Soldiers and Mothers 1976The Strategy of Social Protest.1993Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State 1917Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association 1976The Welfare State and Equality: Structural and Ideological Roots of Public Expenditures.1988Politics against Markets 1989Power, Politics, and State Autonomy in the Development of Social Citizenship: Social Rights During Sickness in Eighteen OECD Countries Since 1930

Cited by

2003Bridging the Gap between the Qualitative and Quantitative Worlds? A Retrospective and Prospective View on Qualitative Comparative Analysis 2011Use and misuse of qualitative comparative analysis 2003Complexity, Generality, and Qualitative Comparative Analysis 2005From Resistance to Activis m: The Emergence and Persistence of Activism among American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada 2019Performance measurement in the networked context of convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs)

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.