QCA (version 1.0-4)

RagStr: Graduate Student Union Recognition at Research Universities

Description

The data frame RagStr has 17 rows and 6 columns. This data is originally from the hypothetical study by Caren and Panofsky (2005), which analyzes the determinants of unionization attempts by graduate student workers at research universities using tQCA. The data has been reanalyzed in the study by Ragin and Strand (2008).

Usage

data(RagStr)

format

The data contains the following sets: rl{ P Condition: public university ("1" yes, "0" no) E Condition: support of elite allies ("1" yes, "0" no) A Condition: national union affiliation ("1" yes, "0" no) S Condition: a strike or strike threat ("1" yes, "0" no) EBA Condition: E present before A ("1" yes, "0" no, "dc" don't care) REC Outcome : union recognition ("1" yes, "0" no) }

source

http://www.compasss.org

References

N. Caren and A. Panofsky. TQCA: A Technique for Adding Temporality to Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Sociological Methods & Research, 34(2):147-172, 2005. C. C. Ragin and S. I. Strand. Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Study Causal Order: Comment on Caren and Panofsky (2005). Sociological Methods & Research, 36(4):431-441, 2008.