Not quite crisp, not yet fuzzy? assessing the potentials and pitfalls of multi-value QCA

Field Methods

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 265-289

  Vink, Maarten P ^a   van Vliet, Olaf ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boolean analysis; Comparative methods; Fuzzy set methods; Multi value QCA

Indexed keywords

EID: 73049094436     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X09332633     Document Type: Article

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