On October 8, an International Workshop on QCA, sponsored
by the ‘Top Global University Project’ and hosted by the
Center for Positive/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy
was held at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan). Participants
from several Japanese universities and public agencies took
part in the workshop which was introduced by a keynote lecture
by Benoît Rihoux. More information is available at Waseda
University’s website in English and Japanese.
Our transition to using Zotero for the COMPASSS Article Bibliography is now complete. As of this morning, the bibliographies include 909 articles and 66 books.
Adrian Dușa’s QCA with R: A Comprehensive Resource has been published by Springer.
International QCA Workshops now has a dedicated website at https://compasss.org/h/intlqca/
The International QCA Paper Development Workshop 2018 has been announced and has released a call for abstracts. The workshop provides a unique opportunity to meet with internationally renowned QCA scholars, get feedback on your research project, and learn about the latest methodological developments in QCA. See https://compasss.org/h/intlqca/upcoming-workshops/pdw/ for details.
New book: The Evaluation of Complex Infrastructure Projects: A Guide to Qualitative Comparative Analysis by Lasse Gerrits (University of Bamberg) and Stefan Verweij (University of Groningen).
A picture from Charles Ragin and Peer Fiss’ 2018 Southern
California QCA Workshop:
Benoît Rihoux and Charles Ragin’s Configurational Comparative Methods has been translated into Chinese. Publisher’s site.
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For a project titled “ACCORds: Advancing Configurational Comparative Research Methods”, Alrik Thiem has been awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship, funded with 1.4 million Swiss Francs. This project aims to enhance the functionality of configurational methods such as QCA and CNA, to address broader theoretical and epistemological questions, and to develop corresponding software in order to make all advances publicly available to the scientific community. As part of ACCORds, Alrik Thiem is also welcoming suggestions from applied researchers to collaborate on empirical work in any area. More information can be found on Alrik Thiem’s website. We congratulate Alrik on this achievement!