<i>The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies.</i>Charles C. Ragin

Biernacki, Richard

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“…In particular, what the involved actors think and do to promote certain UN principles was extracted from the analysis of their discourses (Fairclough 2003). These different stages of policy coordination were compared and connected through qualitative comparative analysis (Ragin 2014), where variables explaining variances in policy coherence were revealed through comparison across stages.…”

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Introduction to UN-ASEAN Coordination: Policy Transfer and Regional Cooperation Against Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia

Qiao-Franco¹

2023

UN-ASEAN Coordination

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Introduction to UN-ASEAN Coordination: Policy Transfer and Regional Cooperation Against Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia

Qiao-Franco¹

2023

UN-ASEAN Coordination

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“…Furthermore, X c may be given as the absence of Y. This allows that the absence of states can be the causal prompt (Ragin 1987). It should be emphasized that the use of symbols here (X c and Y) should not be taken to imply that the analysis can be carried out in terms of "variables," the symbols are characteristically shorthand for complex natural language descriptions.…”

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“…Nevertheless, Abend, Petrie, and Sauder (2013) find that many ethnographic studies do entertain some concept of causality though the precise method of establishing a causal inference from ethnographic data remains rather difficult to fathom. In addition, the extensive literature on qualitative, small-N case-based research has engaged with concepts of causality but almost invariably in a comparative perspective where N > 1 and where the language of variables (if only nominal dichotomies) is resorted to (Mahoney, 2000(Mahoney, , 2012Mahoney et al 2013;Ragin 1987). In this article, we concentrate upon situations which ethnographers might wish to describe as unique and where the logic of comparison across cases is initially absent.…”

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Subjective Causality and Counterfactuals in the Social Sciences: Toward an Ethnographic Causality?

Abell

Engel

2019

Sociological Methods & Research

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The article explores the role that subjective evidence of causality and associated counterfactuals and counterpotentials might play in the social sciences where comparative cases are scarce. This scarcity rules out statistical inference based upon frequencies and usually invites in-depth ethnographic studies. Thus, if causality is to be preserved in such situations, a conception of ethnographic causal inference is required. Ethnographic causality inverts the standard statistical concept of causal explanation in observational studies, whereby comparison and generalization, across a sample of cases, are both necessary prerequisites for any causal inference. Ethnographic causality allows, in contrast, for causal explanation prior to any subsequent comparison or generalization.

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“…The set-theoretic Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a technique developed by Charles Ragin (1987) which is different to multiple-criteria decision making methods and conventional correlational techniques. According to Ragin (2008), the unique ability of the QCA technique is to analyze the complicated causations where the outcome condition emanates from several compositions of causal conditions, which is referred to "recipes".…”

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Guideline for Application of fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) in Tourism and Hospitality Studies

Rasoolimanesh¹,

Naser²,

Rezaei³

2023

Cutting Edge Research Methods in Hospitality and Tourism

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The aim of this chapter is to review and illustrate a step-by-step guideline in conducting fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) in tourism and hospitality studies. As an emerging method, fsQCA is simultaneously quantitative and qualitative in nature which makes it an appropriate method for social science disciplines including tourism and hospitality area because of complex nature of relationships between multiple variables where theories and models are underdeveloped. Unlike conventional statistical techniques, fsQCA is an asymmetrical analysis technique that provides a holistic view and interrelationships among several conditions using Boolean algebra. The fsQCA analyses produce comprehensive assessment by revealing causal combinations of antecedents to predict an outcome; and identify sufficient configurations (i.e. causal combinations, recipes) and necessary condition/s. By utilizing this method, researchers would be able to produce complex, comprehensive, and robust results.

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The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies.Charles C. Ragin

Cited by 133 publications

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Introduction to UN-ASEAN Coordination: Policy Transfer and Regional Cooperation Against Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia

Introduction to UN-ASEAN Coordination: Policy Transfer and Regional Cooperation Against Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia

Subjective Causality and Counterfactuals in the Social Sciences: Toward an Ethnographic Causality?

Guideline for Application of fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) in Tourism and Hospitality Studies

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