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

QCA enthusiasts will soon meet at the European QCA Conference 2024 (formerly the International QCA Workshop) in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Want to find out more? https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/events/european-qca-conference

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.

See the following link for complete details: AQCA2024 homepage

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.”

Tutorial, Guides and Reports

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.

COMPASSS Newsletter #50 is now available on the newsletter page at https://compasss.org/newsletter/ [direct link].

Many thanks to our intern, Nolan Witty, for putting the newsletter together and all of the contributors from across the COMPASSS community.