TY - JOUR
T1 - From Niche to Mainstream Method?
T2 - A Comprehensive Mapping of QCA Applications in Journal Articles from 1984 to 2011
AU - Rihoux, Benoît
AU - Alamos-Concha, Priscilla
AU - Bol, Damien
AU - Marx, Axel
AU - Rezsöhazi, Ilona
N1 - Presented at "QCA, 25 Years after “The Comparative Method”: Mapping, Challenges, and Innovations"
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - The article provides a first systematic mapping of QCA applications, building upon a database of 313 peer-reviewed journal articles. We find out that the number of QCA applications has dramatically increased during the past few years. The mapping also reveals that csQCA remains the most frequently used technique, that political science, sociology, and management are the core disciplines of application, that macrolevel analyses, medium-N designs, and a mono-method use of QCA remain predominant. A particular focus is also laid on the ration between the number of cases and number of conditions and the compliance to benchmarks in this respect.
AB - The article provides a first systematic mapping of QCA applications, building upon a database of 313 peer-reviewed journal articles. We find out that the number of QCA applications has dramatically increased during the past few years. The mapping also reveals that csQCA remains the most frequently used technique, that political science, sociology, and management are the core disciplines of application, that macrolevel analyses, medium-N designs, and a mono-method use of QCA remain predominant. A particular focus is also laid on the ration between the number of cases and number of conditions and the compliance to benchmarks in this respect.
U2 - 10.1177/1065912912468269
DO - 10.1177/1065912912468269
M3 - Conference paper
SN - 1065-9129
VL - 66
SP - 175
EP - 184
JO - POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY
JF - POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY
IS - 1
ER -