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"Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and other set-theoretic methods distinguish themselves from other approaches to the study of social phenomena by using sets and the search for set relations. In virtually all social science fields, statements about social phenomena can be framed in terms of set relations, and using set-theoretic methods to investigate these statements is therefore highly valuable. This book guides readers through the basic principles of set theory and then on to the applied practices of QCA. It provides a thorough understanding of basic and advanced issues in set-theoretic methods together with tricks of the trade, software handling and exercises. Most arguments are introduced using examples from existing research. The use of QCA is increasing rapidly and the application of set-theory is both fruitful and still widely misunderstood in current empirical comparative social research. This book provides an invaluable guide to these methods for researchers across the social sciences"--

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Qualitative methods in social research

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In diesem Lehrbuch sollen Studenten und sonstige Interessierte mit den unterschiedlichen Forschungsmethoden und –ansätzen sowie den wichtigsten Anwendungsfeldern qualitativer Politikforschung vertraut gemacht werden. Hierzu wird ausführlich in die Grundlagen und Traditionen der qualitativen Sozialforschung eingeführt. Es werden die wichtigsten Methoden der Datenerhebung und Datenauswertung präsentiert und anhand von besonders interessanten Fallstudien und Fallbeispielen aus der Politikwissenschaft und Politischen Soziologie illustriert. Neben den qualitativen Methoden werden aber auch spezielle Forschungsdesigns dargestellt und kritisch erläutert. Ein Schwerpunkt macht dabei die Auseinandersetzung mit Fallstudien-Designs aus. Die Darstellung von Fallstudien-Designs gibt den Lesern wichtige Informationen an die Hand über geeignete Strategien der Fallauswahl, über den Forschungsprozess bei fallbezogenen Untersuchungen und über die Einsatzmöglichkeiten von qualitativen, aber gleichwohl standardisierten Vergleichsverfahren im Rahmen der von Charles Ragin entwickelten „Qualitative Comparative Analysis“ (QCA).

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"In the intellectual life of a scholar, it is not infrequent for a research question to rattle around in the back of the mind for years. Then all of a sudden comes the realisation that the time is ripe to tackle the topic, and that an attempt has to be made at presenting, discussing and empirically analysed it. I will not go into the reasons why I think that this is now the right moment to address the question on the implementation of the two traditional democratic values, and their transformations over recent years, partly as a consequence of the economic crisis, and its prospective sustainability. Maybe in his Discorsi Machiavelli was only right when he recommends going back to values in times of crisis. There are, of course, other objective and subjective reasons, and the former will emerge directly and indirectly in the first chapter"--

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