Analyzing multilevel data with QCA: yet another straightforward procedure

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 121-128

  Thiem, Alrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Comparative Multilevel Analysis; Configurational comparative methods; Contextual analysis; csQCA; fsQCA; mvQCA; QCA; Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953839781     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-014-0140-6     Document Type: Article

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