The Added Value of Multi-Value Qualitative Comparative Analysis

The Added Value of Multi-Value Qualitative Comparative Analysis

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This article aims to qualify the skeptical view of many leading methodologists on multi-value Qualitative Comparative Analysis (mvQCA).More specifically, it draws attention to a distinctive strength of this QCA-variant.In contrast to the other QCA-variants, mvQCA is capable of straightforwardly capturing the specific causal kelley coures evansville role of every category of a multi-value condition.This provides it with an important advantage over both crisp set (csQCA) and fuzzy set QCA (fsQCA).fsQCA is not capable of capturing the causal effect of rab bck-s4 an intermediate category if, depending on the context, it can have a different impact than the full presence of the corresponding condition.

csQCA, in turn, tends to attribute a causal role to the absence of condition values, which in the case of multi-value conditions often encompass very different cases.The article first discusses the comparative advantage of mvQCA with a constructed data set, after which it reanalyzes two published studies to demonstrate these advantages with empirical data.URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1601129.