Necessary Conditions Theory, Methodology, and Applications

by Goertz, Gary; Starr, Harvey; Braumoeller, Bear F.; Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio; Dion, Douglas; Harvey, Frank P.; Levy, Jack S.; Mintz, Alex; Most, Benjamin A.; Ragin, Charles C.; Starr, Harvey; Tsebelis, George

• ISBN13: 9780742519251
• ISBN10: 0742519252
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-04
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This volume represents a first. Never before has a book focused completely on the implications of necessary conditions for social science research, logic, methodology, research design, and theory. Rarely is the contrast so wide between the prevalence of a concept in scholarship and its absence in methodology texts. Necessary Conditions presents literally hundreds of necessary condition hypotheses from all areas of political science and other social science methodologies, and is authored by many of the most influential social scientists of the last fifty years. Thus, this volume brings together essential work that deals not only with the analysis of common methodological, logical, and research design errors, but also the proper means-qualitative and quantitative-to analyze the many ramifications of necessary condition hypotheses and theories.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
List of Figures	ix
Introduction: Necessary Condition Logics, Research Design, and Theory	1	(24)
Gary Goertz
Harvey Starr
Basic Logic and Research Design: Conceptualization, Case Selection, and the Form of Relationships	25	(22)
Benjamin A. Most
Harvey Starr
Cause, Correlation, and Necessary Conditions	47	(18)
Gary Goertz
The Substantive Importance of Necessary Condition Hypotheses	65	(30)
Gary Goertz
Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study	95	(18)
Douglas Dion
Necessary Conditions in Case Studies: Preferences, Constraints, and Choices in July 1914	113	(34)
Jack S. Levy
Practicing Coercion: Revisiting Successes and Failures Using Boolean Logic and Comparative Methods	147	(32)
Frank P. Harvey
Fuzzy-Set Analysis of Necessary Conditions	179	(18)
Charles C. Ragin
The Statistical Methodology of Necessary Conditions	197	(28)
Bear F. Braumoeller
Gary Goertz
Opportunity, Willingness, and Political Uncertainty: Theoretical Foundations of Politics	225	(24)
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
Harvey Starr
Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis	249	(28)
George Tsebelis
The Decision to Attack Iraq: A Noncompensatory Theory of Decision-Making	277	(18)
Alex Mintz
Necessity and Sufficiency in Social Phenomena: Theoretical and Methodological Progress	295	(10)
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
References	305	(32)
Index of Necessary Condition Hypotheses	337	(4)
Index	341	(6)
About the Contributors	347	(2)
Acknowledgments	349