Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an Approach

Governing large-scale social-ecological systems: Lessons from five cases

“…Other variables, such as sanctioning mechanisms, have less clear results. This second set of findings can be interpreted as a hint of multiple conjunctural causation (Ragin 1989;Berg-Schlosser et al 2009), according to which both the presence and absence of a condition (i.e. the conditions that vary across our cases) can lead to success or failure, depending on the values of other conditions.…”

Determining Factors for Economic Efficiency in the Organic Olive Oil Sector

“…In particular, the QCA technique is based on Boolean algebra, using verbal, conceptual and mathematical language which makes it a qualitative and quantitative approach, bringing together their main advantages [55,56]. Thus, this methodology enables a set of cases to be analysed systematically to determine causal patterns in the form of necessity and sufficiency relations between a set of conditions and a result [57].…”

Politics of Risk-taking : Welfare State Reform in Advanced Democracies

“…Instead of conducting time series cross-sectional analyses, this study employs innovative configurational comparative techniques based on fuzzy-set theory (Ragin 2000;Rihoux & Ragin 2009). This choice is rooted in the observation that social phenomena -like welfare state r eform -are complex.…”