TY - JOUR
AU - Marx, Axel
AB - This paper introduces the mini-symposium on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and set-theoretic methods, both crisp sets and fuzzy sets, and situates the different contributions in a wider methodological debate concerning cross-case analysis. The paper argues that QCA is not just a set of techniques, but a distinctive research approach, with its own goals and set of assumptions. Concerning the wide methodological debate, special attention is paid to the added value of QCA and specific innovations introduced in the mini-symposium. Introduction few years. Hence, it is timely to reflect back on twenty- five years of QCA and introduce some of the main inno- The Comparative Method authored by Charles C. Ragin vations in QCA. This mini-symposium aims to achieve (1987) is an agenda-setting volume in many ways. In this dual goal of taking stock of QCA applications and particular, it laid the foundations for the development of introducing new innovations. QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis), which has The initiative of this mini-symposium was taken by a now expanded in different directions: development of few scholars active in the coordination of COMPASSS, new techniques (crisp-set QCA, then multivalue QCA a global network of researchers interested in the develop- and fuzzy-set QCA), diversification 
TI - QCA, 25 Years after “The Comparative Method”
JF - Political Research Quarterly
DO - 10.1177/1065912912468269
DA - 2013-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/qca-25-years-after-the-comparative-method-CRJSvxACKz
SP - 167
EP - 235
VL - 66
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -