Set-theoretic methods for the social sciences: A guide to qualitative comparative analysis

Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences: A Guide to Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-350

  Schneider, Carsten Q ^a   Wagemann, Claudius ^b  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139004244     Document Type: Book

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