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Qualitative Comparative Analysis and robust sufficiency
Some methodologists take the search target of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to be causal INUS-conditions, others contend that QCA should instead be used to search for some form of sufficiency that is more substantive than mere Boolean sufficiency. While the notion of an INUS-condition has a...
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description | Some methodologists take the search target of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to be causal INUS-conditions, others contend that QCA should instead be used to search for some form of sufficiency that is more substantive than mere Boolean sufficiency. While the notion of an INUS-condition has a long and uncontroversial definitional history, Adrian Dusa, in a recent paper, is the first to explicitly define a notion of substantive sufficiency, which he labels robust sufficiency. Dusa’s definition, however, is vacuous in real-life research contexts. As an alternative, the first part of this paper non-vacuously defines robust sufficiency and supplies a corresponding notion of minimality, which—I argue—captures Dusa’s conceptual intentions. In the second part, I then report and discuss the results of a series of simulation experiments benchmarking the performance of the different QCA solution types in recovering robust sufficiency and minimality. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11135-021-01157-z. |
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spelling | pubmed-82197892021-06-23 Qualitative Comparative Analysis and robust sufficiency Baumgartner, Michael Qual Quant Article Some methodologists take the search target of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to be causal INUS-conditions, others contend that QCA should instead be used to search for some form of sufficiency that is more substantive than mere Boolean sufficiency. While the notion of an INUS-condition has a long and uncontroversial definitional history, Adrian Dusa, in a recent paper, is the first to explicitly define a notion of substantive sufficiency, which he labels robust sufficiency. Dusa’s definition, however, is vacuous in real-life research contexts. As an alternative, the first part of this paper non-vacuously defines robust sufficiency and supplies a corresponding notion of minimality, which—I argue—captures Dusa’s conceptual intentions. In the second part, I then report and discuss the results of a series of simulation experiments benchmarking the performance of the different QCA solution types in recovering robust sufficiency and minimality. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11135-021-01157-z. Springer Netherlands 2021-06-23 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8219789/ /pubmed/34176971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01157-z Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
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title | Qualitative Comparative Analysis and robust sufficiency |
title_full | Qualitative Comparative Analysis and robust sufficiency |
title_fullStr | Qualitative Comparative Analysis and robust sufficiency |
title_full_unstemmed | Qualitative Comparative Analysis and robust sufficiency |
title_short | Qualitative Comparative Analysis and robust sufficiency |
title_sort | qualitative comparative analysis and robust sufficiency |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8219789/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34176971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01157-z |
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