Charles C. Ragin’s Publications on Methods
Books and Edited Volumes:
2010. Constructing Social Research: The Unity and Diversity of Method. (second
edition, with Lisa Amoroso as co-author) Pine Forge Press.
2009. The Sage Handbook of Case-Based Methods. (edited volume, with David
Byrne). Sage.
2009. Configurational Comparative Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis
(QCA) and Related Techniques. (edited volume, with Benoît Rihoux). Sage.
2008. Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond.
2005. Fuzzy Sets. Edited collection, with Paul Pennings; special Issue of
Sociological Methods and Research
33(May).
2000. Fuzzy-Set Social Science.
1994. Formal Methods of Qualitative Analysis. Edited collection, with
Larry Griffin; special issue of Sociological
Methods and Research 23 (1).
1994. Constructing Social Research: The Unity and Diversity of Method.
Pine Forge Press. Spanish translation, 2008.
1992. What Is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry. Edited
collection, with Howard S. Becker.
1991. Issues and Alternatives in Comparative Social Research. E.J.
Brill. Edited collection; also published
as special issue of International Journal
of Comparative Sociology 32 (1 and 2).
1987. The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative
Strategies.
Published Articles and Chapters:
2011.
First foreword. Pp. v-vii in Badredine Arfi, Linguistic Fuzzy Logic Methods in Social Sciences. Springer.
2010.
Comparative methods. (with Claude Rubinson). Forthcoming in the International
Political Science Association’s Encyclopedia of Political Science. Sage.
2010.
Case-oriented theory building and theory testing. (with Garrett Schneider).
Forthcoming in Malcolm Williams and Paul Vogt (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Methodological Innovations.
2009.
Introduction. Persian translation of The
Comparative Method. Tehran: Agah Publishing. Translator: Mohammad Fazeli.
2009. The distinctiveness of
comparative research. (with Claude Rubinson ) Pp. 13-34 in Todd Landman and
Neil Robinson (eds.), The Sage Handbook
of Comparative Politics.
2009.
Reflections on casing and case-oriented research. Pp. 522-534 in David Byrne
and Charles C. Ragin (eds.), The Sage
Handbook of Case-Based Methods.
2009. Introduction. (with
Benoit Rihoux). Pp. xvii-xxv in Benoit Rihoux and Charles Ragin (eds.), Configurational Comparative Methods:
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques.
2009. Qualitative Comparative
Analysis (QCA) as an approach. (with Benoit Rihoux) Pp. 1-18 in Benoit Rihoux
and Charles Ragin (eds.), Configurational
Comparative Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques.
2009. Qualitative
comparative analysis using fuzzy sets (fsQCA).
Pp. 87-121 in Benoit Rihoux and Charles Ragin (eds.), Configurational Comparative Methods:
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques.
2009. Conclusions—the way(s)
ahead. (with Benoit Rihoux, Sakura Yamasaki, and Damien Bol). Pp. 167-77 in
Benoit Rihoux and Charles Ragin (eds.), Configurational
Comparative Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques.
2008. Comparative employment performance: a fuzzy-set
analysis. (with Jessica Epstein, Daniel Duerr, and Lane Kenworthy). Pp. 67-90 in
Lane Kenworthy and Alexander Hicks (eds.), Method
and Substance in Macro-Comparative Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan.
2008. Measurement versus calibration:
a set-theoretic approach. Pp.174-198 in Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Henry Brady,
and David Collier (eds.), The
2008.
Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to study causal order: comment on Caren
and Panofsky. (with Sarah Strand) Sociological
Methods and Research 36 (4):431-441.
2007. New methods for comparative research? (with Claude Rubinson) Comparative
Social Research 24: 373-390.
2007. Comparative methods. Pp. 67-81 in Stephen Turner and William
Outhwaite (eds.), Handbook of Social Science Methodology. Thousand Oaks,
CA.: Sage.
2006. How to lure analytic social science out of the doldrums: some
lessons from comparative research. International Sociology
21(5):633-646.
2006. Set relations in social research: evaluating their consistency
and coverage. Political Analysis 14(3):291-310.
2006. Exploring complexity when diversity is limited:
institutional complementarity in theories of rule of law and national systems
revisited. (with Bruce Kogut). European Management Review 3(1): 44-59.
2006. The limitations of net effects thinking. Pp.
13-42 in Benoit Rihoux and Heike Grimm (editors), Innovative Comparative
Methods for Policy Analysis. Springer.
2005. Fuzzy sets and social research. (with Paul
Pennings) Introduction to special issue of Sociological Methods and
Research. Volume 35 (May 2005):423-430.
2005. Between complexity and parsimony: limited
diversity, counterfactual cases, and comparative analysis. (with John
Sonnett) Pp. 180-197 in Sabine Kropp and Michael Minkenberg (eds.), Vergleichen
in der Politikwissenschaft. Wiesbaden:
VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften.
2005. Case-oriented research and the study of social
action. Pp. 91-102 in Norbert Kersting and Lass Cronqvist (eds.), Democratization
and Political Culture in Comparative Perspective. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften.
2005. Core versus tangential assumption in comparative research. Studies
in Comparative International Development 40(1):33-38.
2004. Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA): state of
the art and prospects (with Benoît Rihoux). Qualitative Methods
2(2):3-13 (lead article in an issue devoted to QCA).
2004. Replies to commentators: reassurances and
rebuttals (with Benoît Rihoux). Qualitative Methods 2(2):22-24.
2004. Prototypes and strategy: assigning causal credit
using fuzzy sets (with Bruce Kogut and John Paul MacDuffie). European
Management Review 1(2):114-131.
2004. Turning the tables: how case-oriented methods
challenge variable-oriented methods. (expanded version) pp. 125-141 in Rethinking
Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, edited by Henry E. Brady
and David Collier. Rowman and Littlefield, and Berkeley Institute of
Governmental Studies Press.
2004. La place de la comparaison: jalons pour la
recherche comparative configurationnelle. Revue International de Politique
Comparée 11(1):118-129.
2004. La spécificité de la recherche
configurationnelle. Revue International de Politique Comparée
11(1):138-145.
2004. Scientific foundations of qualitative research
(with Joane Nagel and Patricia White). National Science Foundation.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04219/start.htm
2003. Comparative method. Published in Encyclopedia
of Research Methods for the Social Sciences, edited by Michael Lewis-Beck,
Alan Bryman, and Tim Futing Liao. Sage Publications.
2003. Beyond analytic induction: complexity,
generality and qualitative comparative analysis (with David Shulman, Adam
Weinberg and Brian Gran). Field Methods 15(4): 323-340.
2003-2008. User's Guide to Fuzzy-Set/Qualitative
Comparative Analysis. Revised and updated annually. 123 pages.
Download from http://www.fsqca.com.
2002. Fuzzy-set analysis of necessary
conditions. Pp. 179-196 in Necessary Conditions: Theory, Methodology,
and Applications, edited by Gary Goertz and Harvey Starr. Rowman and
Littlefield.
2002. Préface to L'Analyse Quali-Quantitative
Compareé. (Pp. 11-14) Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium: Bruylant-Academia.
2001. Causality in case study and comparative
research. Pp. 48-64 in Research Frameworks and Methodologies. TSER
Programme of the European Commission, Area III.
2001. Case-oriented research. Pp. 1519-1525 in International
Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 3. Edited by
Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes. Oxford: Elsevier Science.
2001. International Encyclopedia of the Social and
Behavioral Sciences. (26 volumes) Section Editor for "Logic of
Inquiry and Research Design" (with Thomas Cook), under the general
editorship of Neil Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. Oxford: Elsevier Science.
2000. The place of case-study research. Comparative
and Historical Sociology 13:1.
1999. Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to study
causal complexity. Health Services Research 34(5):1225-1239.
1999. The distinctiveness of case-oriented research. Health
Services Research 34(5):1137-1151.
1998. The logic of qualitative comparative analysis. International
Review of Social History. 43:105-124.
1998. Comparative methodology, fuzzy sets, and the
study of sufficient causes. Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Section
of the APSA 9(1): 18-22.
1998. Case-oriented research and the study of social
action. Pp. 158-168 in Rational Choice Theory and Large-Scale Data Analysis,
edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Gerald Prein, Boulder: Westview.
1997. Turning the tables: how case-oriented methods
challenge variable-oriented methods. Comparative Social Research 16:
27-42.
1996. Political methodology: qualitative methods.
(with Dirk Berg-Schlosser and Gisèle De Meur) Pp. 749-768 in Robert Goodin and
Hans-Dieter Klingemann (eds.). New Handbook of Political Science. New
York: Oxford University Press.
1996. Comparaison, analyse qualitative, et
formalisation. Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée 3.
1995. Using qualitative comparative analysis to study
configurations. Pp. 177-189 in Udo Kelle (ed.), Computer-Aided Qualitative
Data Analysis. London: Sage.
1994. Some observations on formal methods of
qualitative analysis. (with Larry Griffin) Sociological Methods and Research
23(1):1-12.
1994. Introduction to qualitative comparative
analysis. Pp. 299-319 in The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare
State. edited by Thomas Janoski and Alexander Hicks, Cambridge University
Press.
1993. The comparative study of ethnicity:
methodological and conceptual issues (with Jeremy Hein) pp. 254-272 in Race
and Ethnicity in Research Methods, edited by John Stanfield II and Rutledge
Dennis. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.
1992. "Casing" and the process of social
inquiry" (Conclusion to What is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of
Social Inquiry, edited volume by Charles C. Ragin and Howard S. Becker.)
Cambridge University Press.
1992. Cases of "What is a case?"
(Introduction to What is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry,
edited volume by Charles C. Ragin and Howard S. Becker.) Cambridge University
Press.
1991. Statistical analysis of employment discrimination:
a review and critique. (with York Bradshaw) Research in Social
Stratification and Mobility 10:199-228.
1991. The problem of balancing discourse on cases and
variables in comparative social research. International Journal of
Comparative Sociology 32(1-2): 1-8.
1989. The logic of the comparative method and the
algebra of logic. Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 1:373-398.
1989. How the microcomputer is changing our analytic
habits. (with Howard S. Becker) Pp. 47-55 in Grant Blank, James L. McCartney
and Edward Brint (eds.), New Technology in Sociology: Practical Solutions in
Research and Work. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
1989. New directions in comparative research. Pp.
57-76 in Melvin Kohn (ed.), Cross‑National Research in Sociology.
Newbury Park, Ca.: Sage.
For methods publication between 1975 and 1988,
please see curriculum vitae.