Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using R (Paperback)

Carsten Q. Schneider

ISBN 10: 1009009931 / ISBN 13: 9781009009935

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021

A propos de cet article

Paperback. A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. This guide facilitates the efficient teaching, independent learning, and use of QCA with the best available software, reducing the time and effort required when encountering not just the logic of a new method, but also new software. With its applied and practical focus, the book offers a genuinely simple and intuitive resource for implementing the most complete protocol of QCA. To make the lives of students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners as easy as possible, the book includes learning goals, core points, empirical examples, and tips for good practices. The freely available online material provides a rich body of additional resources to aid users in their learning process. Beyond performing core analyses with the R package QCA, the book also facilitates a close integration with the R package SetMethods allowing for a host of additional protocols for building a more solid and well-rounded QCA. A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. With its practical focus, this book facilitates the teaching, independent learning, and use of QCA with the best available software for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners in the Social Sciences. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using R (Paperback)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1009009931
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781009009935
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: new

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Synopsis

A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. This guide facilitates the efficient teaching, independent learning, and use of QCA with the best available software, reducing the time and effort required when encountering not just the logic of a new method, but also new software. With its applied and practical focus, the book offers a genuinely simple and intuitive resource for implementing the most complete protocol of QCA. To make the lives of students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners as easy as possible, the book includes learning goals, core points, empirical examples, and tips for good practices. The freely available online material provides a rich body of additional resources to aid users in their learning process. Beyond performing core analyses with the R package QCA, the book also facilitates a close integration with the R package SetMethods allowing for a host of additional protocols for building a more solid and well-rounded QCA.

À propos des auteurs

Ioana-Elena Oana is a Research Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. She is the developer of the R package SetMethods and has extensive experience in teaching QCA at various international methods schools and universities across the world. Beyond QCA, her substantive work focuses on collective mobilization, public opinion, and party competition dynamics in the multiple crises that have hit the EU since 2008.

Carsten Schneider is Professor at the Political Science Department, Central European University (CEU). His research in Comparative Politics and social science methodology has appeared been published by leading international journals and publishing houses. He is the 2019 awardee of the David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award of APSA's Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section.

Eva Thomann is Professor at the Department of Policy and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. She teaches QCA and comparative research design at various international method schools. Her monograph Customized Implementation of European Union Food Safety Policy: United in Diversity? (2019) received the 2019 best book award by the International Public Policy Association. She co-edits the journal Regulation & Governance.