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Title

Introduction to the comparative method with Boolean algebra / Daniele Caramani.

Author

Caramani, Danièle.

Publication

Los Angeles : SAGE, c2009.

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Sage Publications

Description

xiv, 112 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Utilizing a systematic, broad approach, Introduction to the Comparative Method With Boolean Algebra gives readers the logical foundations of comparison with guided applications and is the ultimate comparative method text covering each of the current and most important issues in the field. Author Daniele Caramani discusses the elements of scientific research, including Mill's methods, Boolean algebra, classification and typologization, and necessary and sufficient conditions, and how these apply to concrete research in the social sciences." "This text is indispensable for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers interested in methodology, behavioral and social sciences, history, and logic."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; 158

Uniform Title

Quantitative applications in the social sciences no. 07-158.

Subject

• Social sciences > Comparative method
• Algebra, Boolean
• Social Sciences > methods
• Empirical Research
• Mathematics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-104) and index.

Contents

Definition -- History -- Specificity -- Cases and variables -- Control -- Causation -- Comparative analysis with boolean algebra -- Assessment.

ISBN

• 9781412909754 (pbk.)
• 1412909759 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008011025

OCLC

• 213495211
• SCSB-11721393

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