… -oriented research design, the lower the number of cases, the fewer should be the
explanatory variables, since degree-of-freedom problems would make the research design …

… And comparative analysis differs from many other types of analysis (eg, statistical analysis …
On the other hand, one of the primary goals of comparative social science is to make general …

… Comparative studies of welfare state change may thus not be a special case. Yet, as …
variable problem’ deserves to be taken more seriously within comparative welfare state analysis …

… some of the problems of comparative analysis. … problem concerns research design. Earlier
it was suggested that by choosing cases appropriately comparative analysis allows variables …

… The problem of selecting independent variables for qualitiative comparative analysis (QCA)
is … In this article we address the problem of selecting causal conditions in QCA. Why is this a …

This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the ‘dependent variable problem’ in comparative
welfare state analysis, by focusing on ‘benefit recipiency’ as a hitherto largely neglected …

… problem. Some of the relationships among the methods are shown graphically using the
multivariate space in which variables … several problems that limit its usefulness in comparative …

… in this analysis are expressed in the way the variables are … , I recoded the dependent variable
in this analysis, changing the … there is no easy way out of the problem of missing variables. …

… analysis of hypothetical data on health maintenance organizations (HMOs). In this analysis,
the problem … vector space formed by the independent variables are devoid, or virtually devoid…

… independent variables in our data analysis; … problems of factor analysis here, which include
the determination of the number of factors and the rotation problem, because these problems …