Ragin, Charles. 1987. THE COMPARATIVE METHOD. Univ of California Press.
Ragin, Charles. 2000. FUZZY SET SOCIAL SCIENCE. Univ of Chicago Press.

"...fuzzy set analysis is a good bit more sophisticated and powerful than the boolean approach described in THE COMPARATIVE METHOD, but it also demands a lot more of the researcher in terms of theoretic rigor and empirical knowledge of his/her cases. Fortunately, we don't have to make this decision anytime soon."

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