Clearly Crisp, and Not Fuzzy: A Reassessment of the (Putative) Pitfalls of Multi-value QCA

Field Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 197-207

  Thiem, Alrik ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boolean analysis; comparative methods; multi value QCA; qualitative comparative analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876534744     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X13478135     Document Type: Article

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