Fuzzy-Set Social Science

By Charles C. Ragin. 2001

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Research on Drugs-Crime Linkages: The Next Generation (2003, background): “Mutually exclusive categories are not necessary for scientific classification (Meehl, 1995), and they are usually impossible to achieve using sparse and noisy archival data (Ragin, 2000).”
The Dependent Variable Problem within the Study of Welfare State Retrenchment: Defining the Problem and Looking for Solutions (2004, methodology): “Another interesting way is to use the ‘‘fuzzy sets’’ idea developed by Ragin (2000).”
Defying the Resource Curse: Explaining Successful State-Owned Enterprises in Rentier States (2010, background): “…Ragin’s qualitative comparative methods. i have settled on crisp coding, as my real-world cases fit rather neatly into dichotomous categories (Ragin 2000). to be sure, the possible candidates for “intermediate” cases such as Bahrain (not fully autonomous) and indonesia (not fully…”
Inferring Causal Complexity (2009, methodology): “In Ragin (1987, 2000, 2008), the minimalization of necessary conditions is assumed to be unproblematic.”
Standards of Good Practice in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy-Sets (2010, methodology): “Before – and, as we will show, after – the “analytic moment” (Ragin 2000) of data analysis, QCA is based on specifi c requirements on core issues of research design, such as case selection, variable specifi cation, and set membership calibration.”
Qualitative comparative analysis vis-à-vis regression (2005, background): “Likewise, the approach is said to make “no assumptions about the empirical scope or power of the causes examined in social research” (Ragin, 2000: 103).”
Stakeholders Under Pressure: Corporate Governance and Labour Management in Germany and Japan (2005, neutral): “Recent methodological innovations have begun to address small-N comparisons outlining techniques of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) based on membership in fuzzy sets (Ragin, 2000).”
CAN WE IDENTIFY INTERGENERATIONAL POLICY REGIMES IN EUROPE? (2010, methodology): “In order to verify whether countries might be grouped in distinct clusters on the basis of their overall policy approach, we implemented both cluster analysis and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), based on the fuzzy-set approach (Ragin 2000 ).”
Bridging the Gap between the Qualitative and Quantitative Worlds? A Retrospective and Prospective View on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (2003, background): “Recently, Ragin (2000) has extended his approach to large-ndata sets and to valued as well as dichotomous variables.”
How actors change institutions: Towards a theory of institutional entrepreneurship (2009, methodology): “A method such as qualitative comparative analysis (Fiss, 2007 ; Ragin, 2000 ) seems well‐suited to examining which combinations of variables lead to specific outcomes—in terms of the emergence of institutional entrepreneurs, the process of divergent change implementation in which they engage, and ”