The Methodology of Necessary Conditions

By Bear F. Braumoeller, Gary Goertz. 2000

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) (2015, background): “In political science, higher values (from absent to present) are upward/to the right (e.g., Most & Starr, 2003; Ragin, 2003) or downward/to the right (e.g., Braumoeller & Goertz, 2000; Harvey, 2003).”
A set-theoretic approach to organizational configurations (2007, methodology): “For the empirical assessment of trivialness, Braumoeller and Goertz (2000) have shown that a ␹ 2 test of homogeneity can be used to assess whether there are significant differences in the distribution of cases across the present/absent cells for causes and outcomes.”
Assessing the Trivialness, Relevance, and Relative Importance of Necessary or Sufficient Conditions in Social Science (2006, background): “There already exists significant literature on assessing whether a given factor is a necessary condition (e.g., Dion, 1998; Braumoeller and Goertz, 2000; Ragin, 2000).”
Designing Research With Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Approaches, Challenges, and Tools (2020, unknown): “Yet, if such samples are representative, then the QCA tool kit does offer statistical measures of uncertainty for necessity and sufficiency claims (Braumoeller and Goertz 2000; Eliason and Stryker 2009; Goertz, Hak, and Dul 2013; Longest and Vaisey 2008; Ragin 2000; Seawright 2002).”
The Comparative Advantages of fsQCA and Regression Analysis for Moderately Large-N Analyses (2012, methodology): “Moreover, Braumoeller and Goertz (2000, 2003) develop a procedure to test for necessary conditions in statistical analyses.”
Toward a Unified Theory of Causality (2008, background): “A sufficient cause is trivial if it is almost never present and thus almost never generates the outcome of interest (see Braumoeller & Goertz, 2000; Goertz, 2006; Ragin, 2006; also see Hart & Honoré, 1959).”
Institutions and inflows of foreign direct investment: a fuzzy-set analysis (2008, background): “As regards necessary causation, the occurrence of one particular range of values on an outcome variable usually or always necessitates the presence of one particular range of values on a causal factor (cf. Braumoeller & Goertz, 2000).”
Causal Complexity and the Study of Politics (2003, background): “• Necessary and sufficient conditions: X1 and X2 produce Y , X1 or X2 produces Y (Dion 1998; Braumoeller and Goertz 2000).5 • INUS conditions:6 (X1 and X2) or (X3 and X4) produce Y (Mackie 1965).”
Guarding Against False Positives in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (2015, background): “…of any counterobservations in the data exceed what the researcher would expect due to measurement error.7 In so doing, the authors 6The exception is Braumoeller and Goertz (2000), which describes a test for continuous necessary conditions—but the test is univariate and not readily applicable to…”