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It is not an overstatement to say Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) counts among the most influential innovations social science methodology has witnessed in the past two decades. The accomplishment of this status can be attributed almost exclusively to the untiring work of Charles Ragin. A political sociologist by trade, he has done more than anyone else for the recognition and diffusion of QCA.
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The number of applications differs slightly from the number of articles as four articles have each presented two applications of QCA using two different variants. In order to be included in the data, articles had to focus primarily on a substantive research question, not QCA as a method or any of its constitutive procedures. In consequence, the number of published applications using or addressing QCA as a technique is probably between 20–30% higher. All entries are recorded in the bibliography section on http://www.compasss.org.
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We doubt that this is a consequence of the rare use of multi-nominal variables in social-science research.
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Thiem, A., Duşa, A. (2013). Introduction. In: Qualitative Comparative Analysis with R. SpringerBriefs in Political Science, vol 5. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4584-5_1
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