Back to Square One: A Reply to Munck, Paine, and Schneider

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 801-806

  Thiem, Alrik ^a   Baumgartner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boolean algebra; Configurational Comparative Methods (CCMs); Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA); Set Theoretic Methods (STMs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84968546880     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414015626455     Document Type: Article

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