Abstract Configurational Comparative Methods (CCMs) aim to learn causal structures from
datasets by exploiting Boolean sufficiency and necessity relationships. One important …

When do presidents delegate policy-making authority to their foreign ministries? And is
foreign policy unique in this respect? We posit that six international, national, and personal …

This article discusses the challenges facing meta‐analyses considering multiple sources of
heterogeneity in peer‐reviewed studies. While quantitative meta‐analysis can control or …

In fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), ambivalent subset relationships (ASR),
occur when solution term X is in subset relation with the outcome Y and its absence~ Y …

In the course of its development over the past 30 years, QCA has undergone substantial
methodological sophistication. As a Boolean approach the method initially only worked with …

Although retirement funding adequacy literature has explored perceptions of retirement
preparations and savings targets, there remains a lack of understanding of which conditions …

This article analyses the current methodological debate within the field of deliberative
democracy and provides some analytical suggestions about the research and …

Abstract Background Coincidence Analysis (CNA) is a configurational comparative method
of causal learning that has seen a significant uptick in applications in public health in recent …