Combining QCA and Process Tracing in Set-Theoretic Multi-Method Research

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 559-597

  Schneider, Carsten Q ^a   Rohlfing, Ingo ^b  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

case selection; Crisp set QCA; fuzzy set QCA; necessity; nested analysis; process tracing; sufficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879211837     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124113481341     Document Type: Article

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