Qualitative Comparative Analysis and robust sufficiency.

ABSTRACT: Some methodologists take the search target of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to be causal INUS-conditions, others contend that QCA should instead be used to search for some form of sufficiency that is more substantive than mere Boolean sufficiency. While the notion of an INUS-condition has a long and uncontroversial definitional history, Adrian Dusa, in a recent paper, is the first to explicitly define a notion of substantive sufficiency, which he labels robust sufficiency. Dusa's definition, however, is vacuous in real-life research contexts. As an alternative, the first part of this paper non-vacuously defines robust sufficiency and supplies a corresponding notion of minimality, which-I argue-captures Dusa's conceptual intentions. In the second part, I then report and disc

SUBMITTER: Baumgartner M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8219789 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature