Inferring Causal Complexity  

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Baumgartner, Michael

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sociological Methods & Research (SMR) vol. 38 no. 01 (Aug. 2009), page 71-101.
Topik: Causal Discovery; Data Analysis; Causal Complexity; Boolean Causal Reasoning; Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Fulltext: SMR vol.38 no.1 p.71 aug 2009_win.pdf (292.91KB)

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In The Comparative Method, Ragin (1987) outlined a procedure of Boolen causal reasoning operating on pure coincidence data that has since become widely known as qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) among social scientists. QCA-including its recent forms as presented in Ragin (2000, 2008)-is designed to analyze causal structures featuring no more than one effect and a possibly complex configuration of mutually independent direct causes of that effect. This article presents a procedure of causal reasoning that operates on the same type of empirical data as QCA and that implements Boolen techniques related to the ones resorted to by QCA. Yet in contrast to QCA, the procedure introduced here successfully identifies structure involving both multiple effects and mutually dependent causes. In this sense, this article generalizes QCA.

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