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Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Learning from Cases - Hardcover

Rutten, Roel

 
9781839104510: Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Learning from Cases
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1839104511 ISBN 13: 9781839104510
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

Emphasising the Q in qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), Roel Rutten presents QCA as a thoroughly qualitative method to help researchers learn from cases. He highlights that while Boolean expressions describing cross-case patterns are QCA’s most conspicuous element, they do not amount to causal explanations.



Throughout the book, Rutten demonstrates how QCA’s interpretive logic pervades every step of a QCA study. He uses critical realism as a philosophical foundation to explain how QCA researchers develop their partial and perspectival knowledge of cases into Boolean expressions. Proposing multi-level sets as a way to acknowledge the diversity of social reality, Rutten criticises the use of fuzzy sets in QCA as a poor match to QCA’s threshold logic.



Comprehensive and innovative, this book is a vital read for social science methods experts and users. It is also an important book for QCA experts and students looking for a deeper understanding of QCA.

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About the Author

Roel Rutten, Associate Professor, Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg University and Senior Research Consultant, European Regional Affairs Consultants (ERAC), the Netherlands

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1839104511
ISBN 13 
9781839104510
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
240