Assessing the Trivialness, Relevance, and Relative Importance of Necessary or Sufficient Conditions in Social Science

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Comparative Hypothesis Testing Via Process Tracing (2014, background): “On the practical side, the focus on sufficiency can be justified to the extent that process tracing and case studies often involve statements about sufficient conditions (Blatter and Haverland 2012; Goertz and Mahoney 2012; Mahoney 2004; Mahoney and Goertz 2006).”
Set Relations in Social Research: Evaluating Their Consistency and Coverage (2006, background): “In fact, upon close inspection it is clear that many long-standing arguments and hypotheses about macropolitical phenomena address necessary conditions (Goertz 2002).”
Designing Research With Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Approaches, Challenges, and Tools (2020, background): “Necessary conditions become empirically more important as they also approximate a sufficient condition, and sufficient conditions become so as they approximate a necessary condition (Goertz 2006; Mahoney and Sweet Vanderpoel 2015:70).”
Toward a Unified Theory of Causality (2008, background): “However, their many differences are not well appreciated, which fosters misunderstandings (Mahoney & Goertz, 2006).”
Combining QCA and Process Tracing in Set-Theoretic Multi-Method Research (2013, background): “10; Mahoney 2000; Mahoney and Goertz 2006), but it has not so far been systematically discussed in the context of QCA.”