Building Empirical Typologies with QCA

Building Empirical Typologies with QCA
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使用 QCA 构建经验类型

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2016
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M. Brüggemann
M. Brüggemann
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Florin Büchel;Edda Humprecht;Laia Castro;Sven Engesser;M. Brüggemann

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无论是在日常生活中还是在科学中，类型学都无处不在。在认识论上，有几种系统的方法来构建类型学，比如一端是定性的、基于理论的描述，另一端是定量的探索性统计方法。两者都有各自独特的优势和劣势，可以通过应用集合论方法，如定性比较分析(QCA)来弥补。本文的贡献是实质性的和方法论的：首先，我们展示了QCA如何通过建立一个借鉴Hallin和Mancini框架的类型学来增强我们对媒体系统的理解。QCA的主要改进是能够识别理想类型和边界情况。在我们的分析中，我们超越了广泛讨论的英国案例，更仔细地研究了奥地利、比利时、法国、荷兰和葡萄牙等国的边境案例。其次，QCA很少被应用于建立类型学，如果是这样的话，也只是在邻近的学科中应用。因此，我们的目的是让比较政治传播学者熟悉这种方法。
Typologies are omnipresent both in everyday life as well as in the sciences. Epistemologically, there are several systematic ways to build typologies, such as qualitative, theory-based descriptions on one end and quantitative, exploratory statistical means on the other end of the spectrum. Both have their specific advantages and disadvantages, which can be bridged by applying set-theoretic methods, such as Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). The contribution of this paper is substantial and methodological: First, we show how QCA can enhance our understanding of media systems by building a typology that draws on Hallin and Mancini’s framework. The main improvement of QCA is the ability to identify ideal types as well as border cases. In our analysis, we move beyond the widely discussed case of Great Britain and take a closer look at further border cases such as Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal. Second, QCA has been scarcely applied to build typologies and if so, only in neighboring disciplines. Thus, we aim at familiarizing comparative political communication scholars with this method.