The University of Arizona

Charles Ragin

Professor of Sociology and Political Science.
Ph.D, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1975).
Charles Ragin

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Phone: (520) 621-3531.
Email: cragin
Vita: PDF.
More: Personal Homepage.
Software: FSQCA software.

Research Interests

Charles Ragin's research interests are in Comparative Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, and both Qualitative and Quantitative Methods. He is the author of The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies (California, 1987), Constructing Social Research: The Unity and Diversity of Method (Pine Forge, 1994), and Fuzzy-Set Social Science (Chicago, 2000).

Representative Publications
  • 2008. Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond. University of Chicago Press.
  • 2008. Configurational Comparative Methods: Qualitative Comparative Analysis(QCA)and Related Techniques. Edited with Benoit Rihoux. Sage Publications.
  • 2008. "Calibration versus measurement." Forthcoming in David Collier, Henry Brady, and Janet Box-Steffensmeier (eds.), Methodology volume of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science.
  • 2007. "Set relations in social research: evaluating their consistency and coverage." Political Analysis 14(3):291-310.
  • 2006. "How to lure analytic social science out of the doldrums: some lessons from comparative research." International Sociology 21(5):633-646.
  • 2005. Fuzzy Sets. Edited collection, with Paul Pennings; special Issue of Sociological Methods and Research 33 (May).