Qualititive
Comparative
Analysis
MEBVybrané metody výzkumu mezinárodních vztahů
Mgr. Zinaida Bechná, Ph.D.
21.10.2016
bechna@fss.muni.cz
Outline
• Introduction
• Types of QCA
• Rationale for applying
• Set theory: basic logic
• Set Relations and Causal Complexity
• Calibration
• Truth Table
Guide to Using QCA
with R
QCA Applications I
QCA Applications II
QCA Applications III
Empirical Comparative Approaches in the
Social Sciences
Types of QCA I
Types of QCA II
Types of QCA III
Rational for Applying
QCA I
Rationale for Applying
QCA II
What Are Set-Theoretic
Methods?
Three Shared Characteristics:
1) Data consists of set-membership scores
Example: Czech Republic is a European country
2) Relations between social phenomena are modeled in terms of
set relations
Example: All NATO member states are democracies
-- set of democracies is a super-set of the set of NATO members
3) Set relation are interpreted in terms of necessary and sufficient
conditions
Example: Being democratic is necessary for being a NATO
member.
-- Non-democracy is sufficient for NATO non-membership
-- This entails a focus on causal complexity: equifinality,
conjunctional causation, asymmetry, INUS and SUIN conditions.
What are Sets?
Set Theory vs.
Probabalistic Theory
Types of Sets I
Dilemma of Crisps Sets
Types of Sets II
Fuzzy Sets
Fuzzy Sets vs.
Probabilism
Probability
Fuzzy Sets
Set Operations
Set Operations II
Set Operations III
Set Operations IV
Set Operations V
Set Operations VI
Set Operations VII
Set Operations VIII
De Morgan´s Law
Set Operations
Causal Complexity I
Causal Complexity II
Set Relations I
Set Relations II
Set Relations III
Set Relations IV
Necessary Condition
Necessary Condition
Necessary Condition
Succificient Condition
Sufficient Condition
Sufficient Condition
Sufficiemt Condition
Set Relations
Measurement and Calibration
Measurement and
Calibration
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