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Parsimony and Coherence Validity- and Reliability in Two Functionally Coherent Configurational Comparative Analysis (CCA)-Subtypes

Methods
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Causality
Samuel Huber
University of Lucerne
Joachim Blatter
University of Lucerne
Samuel Huber
University of Lucerne

Abstract

By discussing the typological approaches to QCA or CCA by Thomann / Maggetti and Blatter as well as the literature on standards of good practice in QCA, we will argue that two functionally coherent QCA- / CCA-subtypes or -research designs can be distinguished. While one design aims at developing parsimonious empirical mod-els, the other aims at clarifying the empirical scope of theoretically coherent models. The result of this Paper will be a presentation of validity- and reliability-standards for QCA / CCA in general as well as the presentation of two QCA / CCA-subtypes, their prototypical research questions, aspired explanations and understandings of case-knowledge as well as the steps researchers have to pursue to approximate them in research praxis.