Logical Constraints: The Limitations of QCA in Social Science Research
Abstract
Researchers employing qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and its variants use two-element Boolean algebra to compare cases and identify putative causal conditions. I show that the two-element Boolean algebra constrains research in three important ways: it restricts what we can say about sets and the interactions between sets, it embodies a logical language that is too weak to capture modern social science theories, and it restricts our...
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Title
Logical Constraints: The Limitations of QCA in Social Science Research
Published Date
Apr 20, 2020
Journal
Volume
28
Issue
4
Pages
552 - 568
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