The University of Arizona

Claude Rubinson

Office: Soc Sci 426A
Email: rubinson
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Research Interests

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."