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New Working Paper On Measuring Calibration Robustness
We have published a working paper by Tore Hofstad (University of Oslo, Institute of Health and Sociey) that develops a new measure of calibration robustness. COMPASSS Working Papers.
APSA Report on Transparency in Set-Analytic Research
As part of the American Political Science Association’s recent deliberations regarding transparency in empirical research and with input from the many members of the COMPASSS community, Carsten Schneider, Barbara Vis, and Kendra Kovu drafted a report on transparency in STM/CCM research for the Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. A link to the full report is available on SSRN at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3333474. A summary of the report is also available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3333483.
cna software updated
Mathias Ambuehl and Michael Baumgartner have released version 2.2.0 of cna, which adds functions for evaluating and benchmarking CNA’s output. For more details see: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cna/index.html
Southern California QCA Workshop 2019
A photo from Charles Ragin and Peer Fiss’ 2019 QCA workshop:
Chinese translation of Redesigning Social Inquiry
Yunzhou Du (Southeast University, Nanjing, China) has translated Redesigning Social Inquiry into Chinese. Publisher’s site.
Book published: Anti-System Parties by Mattia Zulianello
Mattia Zulianello (University of Florence) has published Anti-System Parties: From Parliamentary Breakthrough to Government (Routledge 2019), which features several QCA analyses.
2nd International QCA Summer Workshops
The calls for proposals and registration for the 2nd International QCA Summer Workshops (22-24 May, Antwerp, Belgium) are now live: https://offer.antwerpmanagementschool.be/en/international-qca-2019
QCA Add-on for Excel
Lasse Cronqvist has released a QCA add-on for MS Excel, which works on both Windows and OSX. Download it from https://www.qca-addin.net/.
Proposed QCA workshop at First International Environmental Peacebuilding Conference
Tobia Ide (Georg Eckert Institute, Germany) <ide@gei.de> is organizing a training workshop on QCA at the First International Environmental Peacebuilding Conference, to be held at the University of California, Irvine from October 23 to 25 2019. This workshop would serve two main goals. First, it will provide a brief introduction into the method of QCA. In this context, the main principles and steps of a QCA will be explained and illustrated with examples from environmental security research. Second, scholars are invited to bring their own project ideas and papers for discussion and feedback by experienced QCA users.
Scholars with experience in using QCA to study the relationship between the environment, conflict, and peace are invited to contribute, for instance by presenting their own research or by giving a brief introduction into a specific aspect of QCA. If interested, please see the call for participants and contact Dr. Ide by February 8.