The problem of Causal Interference in The Comparative Politics And Comparative Qualitative Analysis
The problem of Causal Interference in The Comparative Politics And Comparative Qualitative Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses recent innovations in the methodology of the comparative social research that are known under the name of "comparative qualitative analysis" (QCA) and were developed by U.S. sociologist Charles Ragin. This discussion includes the description of the main strategies for the causal inference (section 1), exposition of the shortcomings of the Mill's canons of the eliminative induction as rules of causal inference in the non-experimental setting (section 2), the outline of the comparative qualitative analysis (QCA) as the solution for the difficulties of the Mill's methods (section 3), and the analysis of the difficulties in the practical application of QCA (in the concluding section 4).

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