A Coincidence Analysis of a Causal Chain: The Swiss Minaret Vote

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 280-312

  Baumgartner, Michael ^a   Epple, Ruedi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

causal chains; causal modeling; coincidence analysis (CNA); qualitative comparative analysis (QCA); Swiss minaret vote

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899755641     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124113502948     Document Type: Article

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