Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA), Contradictions and Consistency Benchmarks for Model Specification

The purpose of this paper is to address and test two assumptions on which csQCA is based, namely that csQCA will generate contradictions and low consistency scores if models are ill-specified. The first part of the paper introduces csQCA in general and as a stepwise approach. In a second part a real...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Axel Marx, Adrian Dusa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-08-01
Series:Methodological Innovations
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4256/mio.2010.0037