Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using R by Carsten Q. Schneider, Eva Thomann, Ioana-Elena Oana A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. With its practical focus, this book facilitates the teaching, independent learning, and use of QCA with the best available software for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners in the Social Sciences. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. This guide facilitates the efficient teaching, independent learning, and use of QCA with the best available software, reducing the time and effort required when encountering not just the logic of a new method, but also new software. With its applied and practical focus, the book offers a genuinely simple and intuitive resource for implementing the most complete protocol of QCA. To make the lives of students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners as easy as possible, the book includes learning goals, core points, empirical examples, and tips for good practices. The freely available online material provides a rich body of additional resources to aid users in their learning process. Beyond performing core analyses with the R package QCA, the book also facilitates a close integration with the R package SetMethods allowing for a host of additional protocols for building a more solid and well-rounded QCA. Author Biography Ioana-Elena Oana is a Research Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. She is the developer of the R package SetMethods and has extensive experience in teaching QCA at various international methods schools and universities across the world. Beyond QCA, her substantive work focuses on collective mobilization, public opinion, and party competition dynamics in the multiple crises that have hit the EU since 2008. Carsten Schneider is Professor at the Political Science Department, Central European University (CEU). His research in Comparative Politics and social science methodology has appeared been published by leading international journals and publishing houses. He is the 2019 awardee of the David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award of APSAs Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section. Eva Thomann is Professor at the Department of Policy and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. She teaches QCA and comparative research design at various international method schools. Her monograph Customized Implementation of European Union Food Safety Policy: United in Diversity? (2019) received the 2019 best book award by the International Public Policy Association. She co-edits the journal Regulation & Governance. Table of Contents Part I. Getting started: Introduction: QCA in a nutshell; Part II. Before the analytic moment: 2. Calibrating and combining sets; Part III. During the analytic moment: 3. Necessary conditions; 4. Sufficient conditions; Part IV. After the analytic moment: 5. Rounding up solid a QCA; 6. Post-QCA tools; 7. Summary and outlook. Review In a relatively short, clear, and well-written textbook, the authors cover all the essentials of QCA. It includes all the current practices and developments that one needs to do a complete QCA analysis. I am using it in my QCA class and I think the students will like it. Gary Goertz, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre DameThis book is simply a must for anyone aiming at exploiting hands on the distinctive analytic leverage of QCA, via the vast possibilities of the R environment. Benoît Rihoux, University of Louvain and COMPASSS global network (compasss.org)Every now and then, a book comes along of which you think why wasnt this around when I was learning this stuff?. Because sometimes, you just want to learn from the best. The authors have written an excellent guide for both first-time users and experienced QCA scholars: robust, powerful, and a must-read. Bart Cambré, Antwerp Management SchoolEasily accessible and loaded with a wealth of examples, this important book by Oana, Schneider, and Thomann provides an expert guide to the set-analytic perspective. The integration of concepts and research strategies with the R software package makes their approach particularly successful. I expect it will quickly become the standard introduction to QCA. Peer C. Fiss, University of Southern CaliforniaSocial scientists interested in QCA should not miss this book. Oana, Schneider, and Thomann offer an introduction to QCA that is friendly, up to date, and technically advanced. The volume covers set relations, calibration of "crisp" and "fuzzy" sets, necessary conditions, sufficient configurations, temporality, advanced diagnostics, and post-QCA tools. Each chapter contains intuitive examples, advanced tips, and detailed implementation instructions in R. Aníbal Pérez-Liñán , University of Notre Dame Promotional A comprehensive introduction and teaching resource for state-of-the-art Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R software. Review Quote In a relatively short, clear, and well-written textbook, the authors cover all the essentials of QCA. It includes all the current practices and developments that one needs to do a complete QCA analysis. I am using it in my QCA class and I think the students will like it. 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Details ISBN1009009931 Short Title Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using R Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1009009931 ISBN-13 9781009009935 Format Paperback Subtitle A Beginners Guide Publisher Cambridge University Press Pages 180 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Ioana-Elena Oana AU Release Date 2021-10-28 NZ Release Date 2021-10-28 Publication Date 2021-10-28 UK Release Date 2021-10-28 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 26 Tables, black and white; 63 Line drawings, black and white Series Methods for Social Inquiry Alternative 9781009006781 DEWEY 001.4202855133 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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Book Title: Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using R
Subject Area: Political Sociology, Data Analysis, Social Research
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Width: 154 mm
Series: Methods for Social Inquiry
Author: Carsten Q. Schneider, Eva Thomann, Ioana-Elena Oana
Publication Name: Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using R: a Beginner's Guide
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Classical Studies
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 370 g
Number of Pages: 180 Pages
