Qualitative Work and the Testing and Development of Theory: Lessons from a Study Combining Cross-Case and Within-Case Analysis via Ragin's QCA
Charles RAGIN's work, especially his development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), offers social scientists a way of bringing together the strengths of the qualitative and quantitative traditions. QCA takes a case-based rather than a variable-based analytic approach to cross-case analy...
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FQS
2012-03-01
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Series: | Forum: Qualitative Social Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1776 |