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