Contents Acknowledgments Introduction  PART ONE. THE LOGIC OF ANALYTIC INDUCTION  1. Classic Analytic Induction 2. Reconciling Disconfirming Cases  3. Explaining Variation versus Explaining Outcomes  4. The Uses of “Negative” Cases in Social Research  PART TWO. GENERALIZED ANALYTIC INDUCTION  5. Classic versus Generalized Analytic Induction  6. The Interpretive Logic of Generalized Analytic Induction  7. Generalized Analytic Induction: A Step-by-Step Guide  8. Using Generalized AI to Reanalyze Viterna’s Study of Women’s Mobilization into the Salvadoran Guerrilla Army  9. Applying Generalized AI to Conventional Quantitative Data  10. Core Features of Generalized Analytic Induction  Appendix A. Brief Overview of Qualitative Comparative Analysis  Appendix B. Fuzzy Sets  Appendix C. Using fsQCA Software to Implement Generalized AI  Appendix D. Converting “Sum-of-Products” Expressions to “Product-of-Sums” Expressions  Appendix E. Measures Used in Logistic Regression Analysis  Notes  References  Index

"Breaks new ground in introducing analytic induction as an approach distinct from qualitative comparative analysis. Charles Ragin's writing is among the clearest, most accessible, and engaging that I know."—Peer C. Fiss, Jill and Frank Fertitta Chair in Business Administration and Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California "At a time when methodological debates are becoming increasingly mathematical, this intervention is both refreshingly nontechnical and unusually helpful for qualitative researchers in sociology and political science. Because of its clarity, brevity, and usability, qualitative researchers in the social sciences are going to want a copy of this book."—James Mahoney, Gordon Fulcher Professor in Decision-Making and Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Northwestern University