Charles Ragin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3632476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Ragin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Ragin |
| SIGNATURE | RAGIN C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 589 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
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…
The Sage Handbook of Case-Based Methods
INTRODUCTION: Case-Based Methods: Why We Need Them What They Are How to Do Them - David Byrne PART ONE: THE METHODOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF CASE-BASED METHODS Complexity and Case - David L Harvey The Contextualist Approach to Social Science Methodology - Lars Mjoset Reflexivity, Realism and the Process of Casing - Bob Carter and Alison Sealey Single-Case Probabilities - Malcolm Williams and Wendy Dyer Complex Realist and Configurational Approaches to C…
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…
The Effect of Human Capital and State Intervention on the Performance of Medical Systems
Using theoretical perspectives of several literatures (e.g., human capital investment, state theory, mortality, and professional dominance), this study explains variation in the performance of national medical systems. Using an unique data set, it assesses the consequences of human capital investments by analyzing the impact that investments in the number of doctors and in the proportion of doctors who were specialists have on reductions in morta…
Sociology for the Student as Public: A Neglected Genre
Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State
The literature on the determinants of welfare state effort displays many inconsistencies and contradictins. This article takes imoprtant stepts toward resolving these issues with the use of pooled cross-sectional and time-series analyses. The findings are that various independent variables affect different measures of welfare state effort in different and theoretically meaningful ways. Of special importance are the contrasting effects of Christia…
Methodology and Development: Essays in Methodology, Vol. 3
Global and National Sources of Political Protest: Third World Responses to the Debt Crisis
In recent years internationalfinancial institutions have required Third World debtor countries to adopt various austerity policies designed to restore economic viability and ensure debt repayment. The hardships created by these policies have provoked unprecedented protests in debtor countries, ranging from mass demonstrations to organized strikes and riots. We examine variation among Third World debtor countries in the presence and severity of pr…
A Lost Left: Three Studies in Socialism and Nationalism.David Howell
Fostering diversity: Graduate study in sociology at Northwestern University
Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
Software for Sociologists: Statistical Analysis on the IBM PC
The World System of Immanuel Wallerstein: Sociology and Politics as History
Few American sociologists have succeeded in forming academic cults around themselves, and until recently none had ever done so through the writing of social history. Yet this is precisely what Immanuel Wallerstein has done, and it is worth examining the reasons for this before discussing his intellectual biography and analyzing the substance of his work. Although known as an Africanist in the 1960s and as the author of a provocative book about un…
Crises in the World-System
Original essays explore the periodic crises that seem to be a part of the very essence of the capitalist world-system. What is the nature of these crises and how do they threaten the hegemony of the powerful core countries? These questions are considered in five major analyses. Four essays are then devoted to examining the current crisis of the American economy. '...leaves the reader with far more insight into a far more serious set of problems..…
Theory and Method in the Study of Dependency and International Inequality
Identity and Assimilation: The Welsh-English Dichotomy, A Case Study
Theory and Method in Comparative Research: Two Strategies
We examine the comparative strategies of Durkheim and Weber and link them to specific presuppositions. While both are compatible with goals of explanation and generalization in sociological analysis, they use different types of explanation and different degrees of generalization to produce variable-based (Durkheimian) and case-based (Weberian) studies. Several authors (e.g., Kapsis; Smelser, b) suggest that these two strategies converge. We show …
Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework.Joseph Rothschild
Modernizing Institutions, Mobilization, and Third World Development: A Cross-National Study
Following the implications of modernization theory, we test via panel regression analysis several hypotheses relating modernizing institutions to the economic development of poor countries. Controlling for the economic constraints imposed by initial poverty and world-system position, we find that the school furthers economic development while exposure to the cinema hinders it. Further analysis shows that these effects vary by political context: i…
"Class, Status, and "Reactive Ethnic Cleavages: The Social Bases of Political Regionalism
Two conflicting perspectives on the nature of political regionalism in Britain are examined. The first, based on a developmental perspective, argues that there is a high degree of regional uniformity in party support in Britain. The second, based on the theory of reactive cleavages, supports the view that Celtic political distinctiveness is a persistent feature of British politics. Both perspectives are found to be inadequate because of errors in…
Mechanical Solidarity, Repressive Justice, and Lynchings in Louisiana
The Market, Tradition and Peasant Rebellion: The Case of Romania in 1907
Two models of peasant rebellion are examined using historical census data relevant to the Romanian peasant rebellion of 1907. One model synthesizes the arguments of Wolf Moore, Hobsbawm and Tlly. The other is Stinchcombe's. Each model is operationalized and tested using multiple regression techniques on county level data. The first synthetic model works well and shows that the most important variable explaining the intensity of the rebellion is t…
Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State
The literature on the determinants of welfare state effort displays many inconsistencies and contradictins. This article takes imoprtant stepts toward resolving these issues with the use of pooled cross-sectional and time-series analyses. The findings are that various independent variables affect different measures of welfare state effort in different and theoretically meaningful ways. Of special importance are the contrasting effects of Christia…
Global and National Sources of Political Protest: Third World Responses to the Debt Crisis
In recent years internationalfinancial institutions have required Third World debtor countries to adopt various austerity policies designed to restore economic viability and ensure debt repayment. The hardships created by these policies have provoked unprecedented protests in debtor countries, ranging from mass demonstrations to organized strikes and riots. We examine variation among Third World debtor countries in the presence and severity of pr…
Theory and Method in Comparative Research: Two Strategies
We examine the comparative strategies of Durkheim and Weber and link them to specific presuppositions. While both are compatible with goals of explanation and generalization in sociological analysis, they use different types of explanation and different degrees of generalization to produce variable-based (Durkheimian) and case-based (Weberian) studies. Several authors (e.g., Kapsis; Smelser, b) suggest that these two strategies converge. We show …
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…
"Class, Status, and "Reactive Ethnic Cleavages: The Social Bases of Political Regionalism
Two conflicting perspectives on the nature of political regionalism in Britain are examined. The first, based on a developmental perspective, argues that there is a high degree of regional uniformity in party support in Britain. The second, based on the theory of reactive cleavages, supports the view that Celtic political distinctiveness is a persistent feature of British politics. Both perspectives are found to be inadequate because of errors in…
The Market, Tradition and Peasant Rebellion: The Case of Romania in 1907
Two models of peasant rebellion are examined using historical census data relevant to the Romanian peasant rebellion of 1907. One model synthesizes the arguments of Wolf Moore, Hobsbawm and Tlly. The other is Stinchcombe's. Each model is operationalized and tested using multiple regression techniques on county level data. The first synthetic model works well and shows that the most important variable explaining the intensity of the rebellion is t…
Modernizing Institutions, Mobilization, and Third World Development: A Cross-National Study
Following the implications of modernization theory, we test via panel regression analysis several hypotheses relating modernizing institutions to the economic development of poor countries. Controlling for the economic constraints imposed by initial poverty and world-system position, we find that the school furthers economic development while exposure to the cinema hinders it. Further analysis shows that these effects vary by political context: i…
Mechanical Solidarity, Repressive Justice, and Lynchings in Louisiana
The Effect of Human Capital and State Intervention on the Performance of Medical Systems
Using theoretical perspectives of several literatures (e.g., human capital investment, state theory, mortality, and professional dominance), this study explains variation in the performance of national medical systems. Using an unique data set, it assesses the consequences of human capital investments by analyzing the impact that investments in the number of doctors and in the proportion of doctors who were specialists have on reductions in morta…
Fostering diversity: Graduate study in sociology at Northwestern University
Theory and Method in the Study of Dependency and International Inequality
The Market, Tradition and Peasant Rebellion: The Case of Romania in 1907
Two models of peasant rebellion are examined using historical census data relevant to the Romanian peasant rebellion of 1907. One model synthesizes the arguments of Wolf Moore, Hobsbawm and Tlly. The other is Stinchcombe's. Each model is operationalized and tested using multiple regression techniques on county level data. The first synthetic model works well and shows that the most important variable explaining the intensity of the rebellion is t…
"Class, Status, and "Reactive Ethnic Cleavages: The Social Bases of Political Regionalism
Two conflicting perspectives on the nature of political regionalism in Britain are examined. The first, based on a developmental perspective, argues that there is a high degree of regional uniformity in party support in Britain. The second, based on the theory of reactive cleavages, supports the view that Celtic political distinctiveness is a persistent feature of British politics. Both perspectives are found to be inadequate because of errors in…
Mechanical Solidarity, Repressive Justice, and Lynchings in Louisiana
Modernizing Institutions, Mobilization, and Third World Development: A Cross-National Study
Following the implications of modernization theory, we test via panel regression analysis several hypotheses relating modernizing institutions to the economic development of poor countries. Controlling for the economic constraints imposed by initial poverty and world-system position, we find that the school furthers economic development while exposure to the cinema hinders it. Further analysis shows that these effects vary by political context: i…
Theory and Method in the Study of Dependency and International Inequality
Identity and Assimilation: The Welsh-English Dichotomy, A Case Study
Theory and Method in Comparative Research: Two Strategies
We examine the comparative strategies of Durkheim and Weber and link them to specific presuppositions. While both are compatible with goals of explanation and generalization in sociological analysis, they use different types of explanation and different degrees of generalization to produce variable-based (Durkheimian) and case-based (Weberian) studies. Several authors (e.g., Kapsis; Smelser, b) suggest that these two strategies converge. We show …
Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework.Joseph Rothschild
The World System of Immanuel Wallerstein: Sociology and Politics as History
Few American sociologists have succeeded in forming academic cults around themselves, and until recently none had ever done so through the writing of social history. Yet this is precisely what Immanuel Wallerstein has done, and it is worth examining the reasons for this before discussing his intellectual biography and analyzing the substance of his work. Although known as an Africanist in the 1960s and as the author of a provocative book about un…
Crises in the World-System
Original essays explore the periodic crises that seem to be a part of the very essence of the capitalist world-system. What is the nature of these crises and how do they threaten the hegemony of the powerful core countries? These questions are considered in five major analyses. Four essays are then devoted to examining the current crisis of the American economy. '...leaves the reader with far more insight into a far more serious set of problems..…
Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
Software for Sociologists: Statistical Analysis on the IBM PC
Fostering diversity: Graduate study in sociology at Northwestern University
A Lost Left: Three Studies in Socialism and Nationalism.David Howell
Methodology and Development: Essays in Methodology, Vol. 3
Global and National Sources of Political Protest: Third World Responses to the Debt Crisis
In recent years internationalfinancial institutions have required Third World debtor countries to adopt various austerity policies designed to restore economic viability and ensure debt repayment. The hardships created by these policies have provoked unprecedented protests in debtor countries, ranging from mass demonstrations to organized strikes and riots. We examine variation among Third World debtor countries in the presence and severity of pr…
Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State
The literature on the determinants of welfare state effort displays many inconsistencies and contradictins. This article takes imoprtant stepts toward resolving these issues with the use of pooled cross-sectional and time-series analyses. The findings are that various independent variables affect different measures of welfare state effort in different and theoretically meaningful ways. Of special importance are the contrasting effects of Christia…
Sociology for the Student as Public: A Neglected Genre
The Effect of Human Capital and State Intervention on the Performance of Medical Systems
Using theoretical perspectives of several literatures (e.g., human capital investment, state theory, mortality, and professional dominance), this study explains variation in the performance of national medical systems. Using an unique data set, it assesses the consequences of human capital investments by analyzing the impact that investments in the number of doctors and in the proportion of doctors who were specialists have on reductions in morta…
The Sage Handbook of Case-Based Methods
INTRODUCTION: Case-Based Methods: Why We Need Them What They Are How to Do Them - David Byrne PART ONE: THE METHODOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF CASE-BASED METHODS Complexity and Case - David L Harvey The Contextualist Approach to Social Science Methodology - Lars Mjoset Reflexivity, Realism and the Process of Casing - Bob Carter and Alison Sealey Single-Case Probabilities - Malcolm Williams and Wendy Dyer Complex Realist and Configurational Approaches to C…
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…
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…
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