AMENTA, EDWIN; POULSEN, JANE D. - In: Sociological Methods & Research 23 (1994) 1, pp. 22-53
The problem of selecting independent variables for qualitiative comparative analysis (QCA) is addressed. This is a different problem for QCA than for inferential statistical methods, for both technical and epistemological reasons. Technically, QCA can manipulate only a few variables at one time....