1. CHƯƠNG 1: SETS, SET MEMBERSHIP, AND CALIBRATION
1.1. The notion of sets
1.2. The calibration of set membership
2. CHƯƠNG 2: NOTIONS AND OPERATIONS IN SET THEORY
2.1. Conjunctions, Boolean and fuzzy multiplication, intersection, logical AND
2.2. Disjunctions, Boolean and fuzzy addition, union, logical OR
2.3. Negations, complements, logical NOT
2.4. Operations on complex expressions
2.5. Relations between sets
2.6. Notational systems in set-theoretic methods
3. CHƯƠNG 3: SET RELATIONS
3.1. Defining causal complexity
3.2. INUS and SUIN conditions
3.3. Causal complexity in set-theoretic methods
3.4. Set-theoretic methods and standard quantitative approaches
4. CHƯƠNG 4: TRUTH TABLES
4.1. What is a truth table?
4.2. How to get from a data matrix to a truth table
4.3. Analyzing truth tables
5. CHƯƠNG 5: PARAMETERS OF FIT
5.1. Defining and dealing with contradictory truth table rows
5.2. Consistency of sufficient conditions
5.3. Coverage of sufficient conditions
5.4. Consistency of necessary conditions
5.5. Coverage of necessary conditions
5.6. Issues related to consistency and coverage
6. CHƯƠNG 6: LIMITED DIVERSITY AND LOGICAL REMAINDERS
6.1. Limited diversity in set-theoretic methods: how to see it when it is there
6.2. Sources of limited diversity
6.3. What limited diversity is not
6.4. The Standard Analysis procedure: identifying logical remainders for crafting plausible solution terms
7. CHƯƠNG 7: THE TRUTH TABLE ALGORITHM
7.1. From the data matrix to truth table
7.2. Attributing an outcome value to each truth table row
7.3. Logically minimizing the truth table
7.4. Implications of the Truth Table Algorithm
8. CHƯƠNG 8: POTENTIAL PITFALLS IN THE STANDARD ANALYSIS PROCEDURE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT
8.1. Beyond the Standard Analysis: expanding the types of counterfactuals
8.2. The Enhanced Standard Analysis: forms of untenable assumptions and how to avoid them
8.3. Theory-Guided Enhanced Standard Analysis: complementary strategies for dealing with logical remainders
9. CHƯƠNG 9: POTENTIAL PITFALLS IN THE ANALYSIS OF NECESSITY AND SUFFICIENCY AND SUGGESTIONS FOR AVOIDING THEM
9.1. Pitfalls in inferring necessity from sufficiency solution terms
9.2. The analytic consequences of skewed set-membership scores
9.3. A general treatment of skewed set membership in fuzzy-set analyses
10. CHƯƠNG 10: VARIANTS OF QCA
10.1. The two-step approach
10.2. Multi-value QCA
10.3. Set-theoretic methods and time
10.4. Temporal QCA
11. CHƯƠNG 11: DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE MEETS SET-THEORETIC APPROACH
11.1. Recipe for a good QCA
11.2. Robustness and uncertainty in QCA
11.3. The evaluation of theories in set-theoretic methods
11.4. Set-theoretic methods and case selection
12. CHƯƠNG 12: LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD
12.1. Looking back: the main topics of this book
12.2. Myths and misunderstandings
12.3. Looking ahead: tasks and developments in the coming years
MỞ ĐẦU
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX