Benoît Rihoux
Biographic Data
| ID | 162175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benoît Rihoux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benoît |
| FAMILY NAME | Rihoux |
| SIGNATURE | RIHOUX B |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9836-5056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Conservative solutions for progress: On solution types when combining QCA with in-depth Process-Tracing
What is the most appropriate QCA solution type when engaging in a multimethod design that includes QCA and in-depth process-tracing (PT)? While either the intermediate or the parsimonious solution are generally favored in QCA-only studies, we identify important challenges that can emerge when selecting those solutions in a QCA-PT multimethod study. We particularly highlight the risk of mechanistic heterogeneity, omitted conditions, and draw the a…
Identifying diverse paths toward successful policy performance in Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) and European Union countries: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) e…
Although the policy performance field acknowledges the importance of adopting a long‐term decision making perspective to attain more sustainable policy outcomes, it overlooks the way in which sustainable governance conditions and policy performance relate to each other. We address this gap by investigating why some countries succeed in terms of policy performance while others do not. Applying a fuzzy‐set QCA to 41 Organization for Economic Co‐ope…
Policy Effectiveness through Configurational and Mechanistic Lenses: Lessons for Concept Development
The aim of this article is to build up a concept-informed research design to answer “why and how” a policy can make a difference. It demonstrates the potential and challenges of an innovative multimethod approach, which combines a configurational and mechanistic view to policy effectiveness. The article hereto draws on experiences in applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Process Tracing in one single evaluation. The study calls for a rigo…
Examining activist trajectories across fluid borders: Three most welcome analytic shifts
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Ideas as close as possible to power: Belgian political parties and their study centres
Comprehensively mapping political science methods: An instructors’ survey
A map provides a unique view over the complex relationships of competition and complementarity between methods. It goes beyond the usual approaches to methods, namely monographic, mixed, encyclopaedic and classificatory. A diverse set of 50 social and political science methods instructors were surveyed about their specialty along 17 dimensions that are regarded as contrasting by the methodology literature. Correspondence analysis and cluster anal…
Années de QCA ( Qualitative Comparative Analysis ): Quel chemin parcouru
Cet article vise à retracer le développement de l’analyse QCA ( Qualitative Comparative Analysis ), initiée par Charles Ragin il y a vingt-cinq ans. Nous examinons d’abord en quoi le contexte dans lequel ceci s’est produit a façonné QCA comme approche de recherche, et présentons les caractéristiques initiales de cette approche. Ensuite, nous présentons les principaux débats suscités par QCA et les réponses apportées, en particulier en termes d’in…
The origins, development, and application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis: The First 25 Years
A quarter century ago, in 1987, Charles C. Ragin published The Comparative Method, introducing a new method to the social sciences called Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). QCA is a comparative case-oriented research approach and collection of techniques based on set theory and Boolean algebra, which aims to combine some of the strengths of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Since its launch in 1987, QCA has been applied extensiv…
QCA, 25 Years after “The Comparative Method: Mapping, Challenges, and Innovations—Mini-Symposium
This article provides a first systematic mapping of QCA applications, building upon a database of 313 peer-reviewed journal articles. We find out that the number of QCA applications has dramatically increased during the past few years.\nThe mapping also reveals that csQCA remains the most frequently used technique, that political science, sociology, and management are the core disciplines of application, that macrolevel analyses, medium-N designs…
Belgium
International audience
Belgium
International audience
The Case for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Adding Leverage for Thick Cross-Case Comparison
Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA)
Conclusions—the Way(s) Ahead
International audience
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an Approach
Locate QCA as an approach and grasp its key epistemological foundations • Understand how and why QCA is “case oriented” and how one should use QCA to engage in a dialogue between cases and theories • Understand the specific conception of causality conveyed in QCA— multiple conjunctural causation—and its practical consequences • Reflect on the usefulness of QCA to reach a certain level of generalization beyond the observed cases • Grasp key common…
Configurational Comparative Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques
Configurational Comparative Methods paves the way for an innovative approach to empirical scientific work through a strategy that integrates key strengths of both qualitative (case-oriented) and quantitative (variable-oriented) approaches. This first-of-its-kind text is ideally suited for small-N or intermediate-N research situations, which both mainstream qualitative and quantitative methods find difficult to address. Benoit Rihoux and Charles C…
Belgium
International audience
Political Science Methodology: Opening Windows Across Europe … and the Atlantic
In the following essay, Benoît Rihoux, Bernhard Kittel and Jonathon W. Moses outline the recent developments in European political methodology and highlight their own work in developing a number of projects with the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) that include establishing a Standing Group in Political Methodology, the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques and the forthcoming ECPR/Palgrave Macmillan Research Methods Book …
Belgium
International audience
No place at the table: Green parties in the 2007-2008 political crisis in Belgium
status: Published
Belgium
See also, on many specific institutional and political topics: syntheses in the weekly publications of the Courrier Hebdomadaire du CRISP. Catalogue available online at: http://www.crisp.be/FR/catalogue/catalogue_index.htm
Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis
Two Methodological Worlds Apart? Praises and Critiques from a European Comparativist
Social scientists who strive to reflect on their research “while they're doing it” (Becker 1998) live in very fortunate times. On the one hand, it seems as if an increasing number of scholars want to do a little more than simply apply ready-made recipes. On the other hand, a few key volumes have recently been published that move beyond ready-made recipes. In my personal top three, I would most probably place Mahoney and Rueschemeyer (2003), Georg…
Governmental participation and the organizational adaptation of Green parties: On access, slack, overload and distress
This article explores the reciprocal links between the organizational transformation of Western European Green parties and their governmental experience. On the one hand, a series of hypotheses with regards to the possible link between prior organizational adaptation and eventual access to governmental participation are examined. On the other, the opposite question is addressed: that of the potential impact of governmental participation – and, mo…
Analyzing Greens in power: Setting the agenda
What are the key questions that political scientists investigating Green parties in government have to address? What are the possible contributions of a variety of theories and approaches to the explanation of the Green governmental experience, in a cross‐national context? The international experience with Green party governmental participation is reviewed, followed by a discussion of past work and future challenges to explain Green parties' entr…
The origins, development, and application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis: The First 25 Years
A quarter century ago, in 1987, Charles C. Ragin published The Comparative Method, introducing a new method to the social sciences called Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). QCA is a comparative case-oriented research approach and collection of techniques based on set theory and Boolean algebra, which aims to combine some of the strengths of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Since its launch in 1987, QCA has been applied extensiv…
QCA, 25 Years after “The Comparative Method: Mapping, Challenges, and Innovations—Mini-Symposium
This article provides a first systematic mapping of QCA applications, building upon a database of 313 peer-reviewed journal articles. We find out that the number of QCA applications has dramatically increased during the past few years.\nThe mapping also reveals that csQCA remains the most frequently used technique, that political science, sociology, and management are the core disciplines of application, that macrolevel analyses, medium-N designs…
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Systematic Comparative Methods: Recent Advances and Remaining Challenges for Social Science Research
During the past two decades, a set of systematic comparative case analysis techniques has been developing at a steady pace. During the last few years especially, the main initial technique, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), has been complemented by other related methods and techniques. The purpose of this article is to critically assess some main recent developments in this field. QCA and connected methods can be considered at two levels: a…
Analyzing Greens in power: Setting the agenda
What are the key questions that political scientists investigating Green parties in government have to address? What are the possible contributions of a variety of theories and approaches to the explanation of the Green governmental experience, in a cross‐national context? The international experience with Green party governmental participation is reviewed, followed by a discussion of past work and future challenges to explain Green parties' entr…
Governmental participation and the organizational adaptation of Green parties: On access, slack, overload and distress
This article explores the reciprocal links between the organizational transformation of Western European Green parties and their governmental experience. On the one hand, a series of hypotheses with regards to the possible link between prior organizational adaptation and eventual access to governmental participation are examined. On the other, the opposite question is addressed: that of the potential impact of governmental participation – and, mo…
Bridging the Gap between the Qualitative and Quantitative Worlds? A Retrospective and Prospective View on Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is both an approach and a technique launched in the late 1980s by Charles C. Ragin as a "middle road" between quantitative and qualitative strategies. This review article is an invitation to take a serious look at QCA while also attempting to correctly assess its potential and limits. First, the article presents QCA as an approach and as a specific technique (and software). Second, it offers a selective over…
Mapping Political Methodology: Reflections on a european perspective
This article surveys two concomitant developments in European political methodology. First, we point to a recent methodological convergence across Europe and the Atlantic. Second, we note a broadening methodological divide between explanatory and interpretive approaches to political phenomena. This survey provides a backdrop for introducing a new ECPR Standing Group in Political Methodology as an outlet for new methodological techniques and a ven…
Identifying diverse paths toward successful policy performance in Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) and European Union countries: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) e…
Although the policy performance field acknowledges the importance of adopting a long‐term decision making perspective to attain more sustainable policy outcomes, it overlooks the way in which sustainable governance conditions and policy performance relate to each other. We address this gap by investigating why some countries succeed in terms of policy performance while others do not. Applying a fuzzy‐set QCA to 41 Organization for Economic Co‐ope…
Belgium
Belgium
International audience
Belgium
See also, on many specific institutional and political topics: syntheses in the weekly publications of the Courrier Hebdomadaire du CRISP. Catalogue available online at: http://www.crisp.be/FR/catalogue/catalogue_index.htm
Two Methodological Worlds Apart? Praises and Critiques from a European Comparativist
Social scientists who strive to reflect on their research “while they're doing it” (Becker 1998) live in very fortunate times. On the one hand, it seems as if an increasing number of scholars want to do a little more than simply apply ready-made recipes. On the other hand, a few key volumes have recently been published that move beyond ready-made recipes. In my personal top three, I would most probably place Mahoney and Rueschemeyer (2003), Georg…
Belgium
Special Issue: Political data yearbook (2003
The green breakthrough in the Belgian general election of June 1999
Policy Effectiveness through Configurational and Mechanistic Lenses: Lessons for Concept Development
The aim of this article is to build up a concept-informed research design to answer “why and how” a policy can make a difference. It demonstrates the potential and challenges of an innovative multimethod approach, which combines a configurational and mechanistic view to policy effectiveness. The article hereto draws on experiences in applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Process Tracing in one single evaluation. The study calls for a rigo…
Belgium
International audience
Belgium
International audience
Political Science Methodology: Opening Windows Across Europe … and the Atlantic
In the following essay, Benoît Rihoux, Bernhard Kittel and Jonathon W. Moses outline the recent developments in European political methodology and highlight their own work in developing a number of projects with the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) that include establishing a Standing Group in Political Methodology, the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques and the forthcoming ECPR/Palgrave Macmillan Research Methods Book …
No place at the table: Green parties in the 2007-2008 political crisis in Belgium
status: Published
Une “ troisième voie ” entre approches qualitative et quantitative: Benoît Rihoux, Gisèle de Meur, Axel Marx, Geert van Hootegem, Peter Bursens : “l’analyse comparée systématique de cas” : ouvrir le(s…
Au terme de ce Forum, bien des questions restent ouvertes, à la fois au niveau\nplus fondamental de l’approche qu’au niveau plus concret de la technique\net du travail empirique. Ces deux niveaux sont bien évidemment liés :\nles questions apparemment techniques, que ce soit dans l’AQQC ou les Ensembles\nFlous (EF), appellent souvent une réflexion plus fondamentale... et\nvice-versa.\nNotre propos sera tout d’abord de faire le point sur les atouts…
Belgium
International audience
Belgium
Special Issue: Political data yearbook (2001
Belgium
Special Issue: Political data yearbook (2000
Belgium
Ecotaxes' on the Belgian agenda, 1992-1994: A green bargain
Ecotaxes' on the Belgian agenda, 1992-1994: A green bargain
Belgium
The green breakthrough in the Belgian general election of June 1999
Belgium
Special Issue: Political data yearbook (2000
Belgium
Belgium
Special Issue: Political data yearbook (2001
Belgium
Bridging the Gap between the Qualitative and Quantitative Worlds? A Retrospective and Prospective View on Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is both an approach and a technique launched in the late 1980s by Charles C. Ragin as a "middle road" between quantitative and qualitative strategies. This review article is an invitation to take a serious look at QCA while also attempting to correctly assess its potential and limits. First, the article presents QCA as an approach and as a specific technique (and software). Second, it offers a selective over…
Six applications d'analyse quali-quantitative comparée (aqqc) et des ensembles flous (ef): Mode d'emploi et originalités
L’objectif de cette contribution introductive est double. D’une part, à l’attention des non-spécialistes des méthodes AQQC et EF, nous présentons quelques informations techniques et terminologiques indispensables pour la compréhension des parties plus techniques des six articles qui composent ce dossier. D’autre part, nous tentons de mettre brièvement en évidence la spécificité et l’originalité de chacune de ces six contributions
Une “ troisième voie ” entre approches qualitative et quantitative: Benoît Rihoux, Gisèle de Meur, Axel Marx, Geert van Hootegem, Peter Bursens : “l’analyse comparée systématique de cas” : ouvrir le(s…
Au terme de ce Forum, bien des questions restent ouvertes, à la fois au niveau\nplus fondamental de l’approche qu’au niveau plus concret de la technique\net du travail empirique. Ces deux niveaux sont bien évidemment liés :\nles questions apparemment techniques, que ce soit dans l’AQQC ou les Ensembles\nFlous (EF), appellent souvent une réflexion plus fondamentale... et\nvice-versa.\nNotre propos sera tout d’abord de faire le point sur les atouts…
Retourner à la méthode comparative pour aller de l'avant
INTRODUCTION : [...] Durant ces quelques dernières années, différentes méthodes et techniques\nse développent à un rythme accéléré dans le domaine de l’analyse\ncomparative systématique d’un nombre limité de cas (“systematic comparative\ncase analysis”). Ces méthodes et techniques trouvent un nombre\ncroissant d’applications non seulement en politique comparée, mais\naussi dans d’autres disciplines des sciences sociales et au-delà.\nCe numéro a p…
Belgium
Special Issue: Political data yearbook (2003
Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis: Beyond the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide
Mapping Political Methodology: Reflections on a european perspective
This article surveys two concomitant developments in European political methodology. First, we point to a recent methodological convergence across Europe and the Atlantic. Second, we note a broadening methodological divide between explanatory and interpretive approaches to political phenomena. This survey provides a backdrop for introducing a new ECPR Standing Group in Political Methodology as an outlet for new methodological techniques and a ven…
Belgium
Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis
Two Methodological Worlds Apart? Praises and Critiques from a European Comparativist
Social scientists who strive to reflect on their research “while they're doing it” (Becker 1998) live in very fortunate times. On the one hand, it seems as if an increasing number of scholars want to do a little more than simply apply ready-made recipes. On the other hand, a few key volumes have recently been published that move beyond ready-made recipes. In my personal top three, I would most probably place Mahoney and Rueschemeyer (2003), Georg…
Governmental participation and the organizational adaptation of Green parties: On access, slack, overload and distress
This article explores the reciprocal links between the organizational transformation of Western European Green parties and their governmental experience. On the one hand, a series of hypotheses with regards to the possible link between prior organizational adaptation and eventual access to governmental participation are examined. On the other, the opposite question is addressed: that of the potential impact of governmental participation – and, mo…
Analyzing Greens in power: Setting the agenda
What are the key questions that political scientists investigating Green parties in government have to address? What are the possible contributions of a variety of theories and approaches to the explanation of the Green governmental experience, in a cross‐national context? The international experience with Green party governmental participation is reviewed, followed by a discussion of past work and future challenges to explain Green parties' entr…
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Systematic Comparative Methods: Recent Advances and Remaining Challenges for Social Science Research
During the past two decades, a set of systematic comparative case analysis techniques has been developing at a steady pace. During the last few years especially, the main initial technique, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), has been complemented by other related methods and techniques. The purpose of this article is to critically assess some main recent developments in this field. QCA and connected methods can be considered at two levels: a…
Belgium
See also, on many specific institutional and political topics: syntheses in the weekly publications of the Courrier Hebdomadaire du CRISP. Catalogue available online at: http://www.crisp.be/FR/catalogue/catalogue_index.htm
Political Science Methodology: Opening Windows Across Europe … and the Atlantic
In the following essay, Benoît Rihoux, Bernhard Kittel and Jonathon W. Moses outline the recent developments in European political methodology and highlight their own work in developing a number of projects with the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) that include establishing a Standing Group in Political Methodology, the ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques and the forthcoming ECPR/Palgrave Macmillan Research Methods Book …
Belgium
International audience
No place at the table: Green parties in the 2007-2008 political crisis in Belgium
status: Published
The Case for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Adding Leverage for Thick Cross-Case Comparison
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