Necessary Conditions
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Theory, Methodology, and Applications
Gary Goertz / Harvey Starr
overview
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.
contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Necessary Condition Logics, Research Design, and Theory
Chapter 2 Basic Logic and Research Design: Conceptualization, Case Selection, and the Form of Relationships
Chapter 3 Cause, Correlation, and Necessary Conditions
Chapter 4 The Substantive Importance of Necessary Condition Hypotheses
Chapter 5 Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study
Chapter 6 Necessary Conditions in Case Studies: Preferences, Constraints, and Choices in July 1914
Chapter 7 Practicing Coercion: Revisiting Successes and Failures Using Boolean Logic and Comparative Methods
Chapter 8 Fuzzy-set Analysis of Necessary Conditions
Chapter 9 The Statistical Methodology of Necessary Conditions
Chapter 10 Opportunity, Willingness, and Political Uncertainty: Theoretical Foundations of Politics
Chapter 11 Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis
Chapter 12 The Decision to Attack Iraq: A Noncompensatory Theory of Decision-Making
Chapter 13 Necessity and Sufficiency in Social Phenomena: Theoretical and Methodological Progress