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A comprehensive and accessible guide to learning and successfully
applying QCA Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single
causes-instead, they typically stem from a myriad of interwoven
factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on set theory
and the language of necessary and sufficient conditions,
qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is ideally suited to
capturing this causal complexity. A case-based research method, QCA
regards cases as combinations of conditions and compares the
conditions of each case in a structured way to identify the
necessary and sufficient conditions for an outcome. Qualitative
Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and
Application is a comprehensive guide to QCA. As QCA becomes
increasingly popular across the social sciences, this textbook
teaches students, scholars, and self-learners the fundamentals of
the method, research design, interpretation of results, and how to
communicate findings. Following an ideal typical research cycle,
the book's ten chapters cover the methodological basis and
analytical routine of QCA, as well as matters of research design,
causation and causal complexity, QCA variants, and the method's
reception in the social sciences. A comprehensive glossary helps to
clarify the meaning of frequently used terms. The book is
complemented by an accessible online R manual to help new users to
practice QCA's analytical steps on sample data and then implement
with their own findings. This hands-on textbook is an essential
resource for students and researchers looking for a complete and
up-to-date introduction to QCA.
The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over
the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become
increasingly narrow and movement-centric. When combined with the
tendency to select successful struggles for study, the conceptual
and methodological conventions of the field conduce to a decidedly
Ptolemaic view of social movements: one that exaggerates the
frequency and causal significance of movements as a form of
politics. This book reports the results of a comparative study, not
of movements, but of 20 communities earmarked for environmentally
risky energy projects. In stark contrast to the central thrust of
the social movement literature, the authors find that the overall
level of emergent opposition to the projects to have been very low,
and they seek to explain that variation and the impact, if any, it
had on the ultimate fate of the proposed projects.
The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over
the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become
increasingly narrow and movement-centric. When combined with the
tendency to select successful struggles for study, the conceptual
and methodological conventions of the field conduce to a decidedly
Ptolemaic view of social movements: one that exaggerates the
frequency and causal significance of movements as a form of
politics. This book reports the results of a comparative study, not
of movements, but of 20 communities earmarked for environmentally
risky energy projects. In stark contrast to the central thrust of
the social movement literature, the authors find that the overall
level of emergent opposition to the projects to have been very low,
and they seek to explain that variation and the impact, if any, it
had on the ultimate fate of the proposed projects.
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