2012 November 8, 14:30-16:00, invited lecture Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) delivered to undergraduate students of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia.
Slides:
Basic introduction and some examples
Further examples:
Terance D. Miethe, Hong Lu and Gini R. Deibert (2005). Cross-National Variability in Capital Punishment: Exploring the Sociopolitical Sources of Its Differential Legal Status. International Criminal Justice Review, 15: 115-130 (PDF)
Svend-Erik Skaaning (2007). Explaining Post-Communist Respect for Civil Liberty: A Multi-Methods Test. Journal of Business Research, 60: 493-500 (PDF)
2012 November 8, 16:30-20:00, 2 invited lectures Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) delivered to graduate and postgraduate students, lecturers of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia.
Slides:
(1) Comparison, comparative method and foundations of QCA
(2) Crisp set QCA with fs/QCA & TOSMANA
Data for the lectures:
(1) Example of the analysis of factors of democratic breakdown (survival) in interwar Europe: raw data file (Democracy.raw.4in.csv)
(2) Example of the analysis of factors of democratic breakdown (survival) in interwar Europe: dichotomized data file (Democracy.csQCA.4in.zip)
(3) Example of the analysis of factors of democratic breakdown (survival) in interwar Europe: dichotomized data file after the corrections (Democracy.csQCA.5in.CorrectedGNPPC.csv)
(4) Example of the analysis of factors of democratic breakdown (survival) in interwar Europe: multivalue data file (Democracy.mvQCA.4in.Dichot.csv & Democracy.mvQCA.4in.Dichot.xml)