Globalization and comparative political-economy; art, technology, and culture; social stratification; and research methodology.
Current Work
Dissertation
The Production of Style: Aesthetic and Ideological Diversity in the Arts
and Crafts Movement, 1875--1914.
Publications
Ragin, Charles C. and Claude Rubinson. Forthcoming. "Comparative Methods." Encyclopedia of Political Science,
edited by Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo Morlino. London: Sage.
Franzosi, Roberto and Claude Rubinson. 2009. "Question and Answer
(How do you go from QNA to QCA?)" Pp. 137-140 in
Quantitative Narrative Analysis by Roberto Franzosi. London: Sage.
Ragin, Charles C. and Claude Rubinson. 2009. "The
Distinctiveness of Comparative Research." The SAGE Handbook of
Comparative Politics, edited by Todd Landman and Neil Robinson.
London: Sage.
Rubinson, Claude. 2007. "Nulls, Three-Valued Logic, and Ambiguity in
SQL: Critiquing Date's Critique." SIGMOD Record 36(4):13--17.
Rubinson, Claude and Charles C. Ragin. 2007. "New Methods for
Comparative Research?" Capitalisms Compared (Comparative Social
Research, volume 24), edited by Lars Mjøset and Tommy H. Clausen.
Oxford: Elsevier.
Software
Rubinson, Claude. 2008. fsQCA. Module for the R statistical environment
for conducting crisp-set and fuzzy-set QCA. Implements routines
from Ragin's (2008) Redesigning Social Inquiry. Available at
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/hacks/fsQCA/.
Current research:
Rubinson, Claude. "Commensuration of Visual Art."
Rubinson, Claude, Gianluca De Fazio, and Roberto Franzosi. "Large-N,
Case-oriented Analysis: QCA and QNA at Work."