During the past two decades, a set of systematic comparative case analysis techniques has
been developing at a steady pace. During the last few years especially, the main initial …

This article reviews approaches to presenting qualitative comparative analysis and set-
theoretic research, with an emphasis on graphic presentation. Although visualization is an …

A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative
Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. This guide facilitates the efficient teaching …

Recent years have witnessed a host of innovations for conducting research with qualitative
comparative analysis (QCA). Concurrently, important issues surrounding its uses have been …

Case Study Research: Principles and Practices aims to provide a general understanding of
the case study method as well as specific tools for its successful implementation. These tools …

Set-theoretic methods and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in particular are case-
based methods. There are, however, only few guidelines on how to combine them with …

A quarter century ago, in 1987, Charles C. Ragin published The Comparative Method,
introducing a new method to the social sciences called Qualitative Comparative Analysis …

This article presents the functionalities of the R package SetMethods, aimed at performing
advanced set-theoretic analyses. This includes functions for performing set-theoretic multi …

Analyzing relationships of necessity is important for both scholarly and applied research
questions in the social sciences. An often-used technique for identifying such relationships …

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a method for cross-case analyses that works best
when complemented with follow-up case studies focusing on the causal quality of the …