COMMENT: LUCAS AND SZATROWSKI IN CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE

The stated goal of Lucas and Szatrowski (this volume, pp. 1–79; hereafter L&S) is to provide a critical evaluation of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), with the objective of discouraging researchers from using the method. However, they fail to provide a meaningful critique. Close inspection reveals not only that they address a shallow caricature of QCA but also that their analysis …