Publications

Set Theoretic Methods

Apart from the well established and ever evolving quantitative research methods, a relatively new method begins to gain momentum. …

Comparative Analysis using Boolean Algebra

Comparative analysis is an important methodological tool in the social sciences, a via media between qualitative and the quantitative …

Dispute Resolution and Collaborative Decision-Making: What Accounts for Their Effectiveness? The Case of Romania

Collaborative dispute resolution is essential in natural resource management in the process of negotiating solutions to environmental …

Critical Tension: Sufficiency and Parsimony in QCA

The refutation of Baumgartner & Thiem (2017).

QCA with R. A Comprehensive Resource

Starting with version 2.0, the QCA package in R witnessed substantial improvements in both the functionality of the written commands …

Consistency Cubes. A Fast, Efficient Method for exact Boolean Minimization

The most recent, cutting edge Boolean minimization algorithm.

Enhancing Sensitivity Diagnostics for Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Combinatorial Approach

Sensitivity diagnostics has recently been put high on the agenda of methodological research into Qualitative Comparative Analysis …

R cu aplicații în statistică

Echipa R-omânia (www.r-project.ro) acționează ca o comunitate de utilizatori pentru popularizarea mediului de programare statistică R …

Enhancing the Minimization of Boolean and Multivalue Output Functions With eQMC

Configurational comparative methods have gained in popularity among sociologists and political scientists. In particular, Qualitative …

Elemente de Analiză Comparativă

Elemente de analiză comparativă face o prezentare a unui domeniu metodologic bogat, care a cunoscut o explozie de interes în ultimii 25 …

Facing the Future. European Research Infrastructures for the Humanities and Social Sciences

A book concerning the challenges and future advancements of European research infrastructures for the humanities and social sciences, …

QCA: A Package for Qualitative Comparative Analysis

We present QCA, a package for performing Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). QCA is becoming increasingly popular with social …

Boolean Minimization in Social Science Research: A Review of Current Software for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

Besides an increase in the number of empirical applications, the widening landscape of tailored computer programs attests to the …

The Visual Analogue Scale. An Alternative to the Likert Type Response Scales. An Alternative to the Likert Type Response Scales

For about eight decades, research instruments in the social sciences have been orbiting around Likert’s proposal for his famous …

Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA), Contradictions and Consistency Benchmarks for Model Specification

The purpose of this paper is to address and test two assumptions on which csQCA is based, namely that csQCA will generate …

Publicul și știința. Interese și percepții ale publicului privind cercetarea științifică și rezultatele cercetării

Proiectul STISOC - Știință și societate. Interese și percepții ale publicului privind cercetarea științifică și rezultatele cercetării …

A mathematical approach to the Boolean minimization problem

Any minimization problem involves a computer algorithm. Many such algorithms have been developed for the boolean minimizations, in …

User manual for the QCA(GUI) package in R

Although performing all available function directly from R’s command line is possible, many users have expressed their desire for …

QCA – Analiza Calitativă Comparativă. Aplicații, instrumente și potențial

Științele sociale și politice sunt împărțite, în ceea ce privește cercetarea, între două lumi: cercetarea calitativă și cercetarea …

Creating data services in new democracies. Experiences from a case study and related neighbours

In Romania, as in other former communist countries, there has long been a deficit of information about social research and its data. In …