Please note the various QCA courses this summer. The courses offer the opportunity to start with QCA or to deepen your knowledge.
For instance, Peer Fiss will be teaching a five-day QCA course as part of the Global School in Empirical Research Methods (GSERM). It will take place at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, from June 10-14, 2025. Information on the course can be found here. The goal of this workshop is to provide a ground-up introduction to crisp and fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Participants will get intensive instruction and hands-on experience with the fsQCA software package and on completion should be prepared to design and execute research projects using the set-analytic approach.
A quick reminder that early bird registration ends this week for the 4th Annual QCA Conference of the Americas (AQCA2025). The link to register is: https://carmattu.com/aqca2025/
The Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshop (komex) are organized by the University of Konstanz, in collaboration with the Methods Excellence Network (MethodsNET) and hosted by the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. FInd out more: https://afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/konstanz-methods-excellence-workshops
Wenyan Song, Yi Han and Robert Sroufe have been recognized by Emerald Publishing for their paper “Substitution and complementarity dynamics in configurations of sustainable management practices,” (International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 2022). In the paper, the authors use QCA to understand the relationship between sustainable management practices and financial performance.
The third annual QCA Conference of the Americas will be held in March 2024 at Northwestern University in Chicago. Registrations fees have been posted (we’ve kept the fees the same as last year) and registration will open soon.
We’ve also posted information on traveling to Northwestern, along with the link for booking at Hyatt House Chicago/Evanston, the official conference hotel.
Charles Ragin has published a research note on dual calibration, a heretofore undocumented function in the fs/QCA software. Dual calibration applies the direct method but uses four threshold values, allowing one to construct two fuzzy sets from a single variable, simultaneously calibrating “high-X versus not-high-X” and “low-X versus not-low-X.”
Charles Ragin has published a research note on “Stepwise Consistency Analysis,” which offers a method of comparing consistency scores across truth table rows, in order to better understand the dynamics at work within the truth table as a whole. Read it on our “Tutorials, Guides, and Reports” page.
Charles Ragin’s new book Analytic Induction is now available. It is open access, so you may read it for free via UC Press and JStor. You may also purchase a print copy or download it for your Kindle at Amazon.
The 11th Annual International QCA Workshops will be held 12-14 December 2023 in Belgium. The International QCA Paper Development Workshop will be held on 12-13 December, followed by the International QCA Experts Workshop.
