Carsten Q. Schneider
Associate Professor
Director, Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies
Track Representative for Comparative Politics, Doctoral School of Political Science
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327-3086 Qualifications:
PhD in Political and Social Science, European University Institute
Diploma in Political Science, Free University, Berlin
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Schneider is associate professor in political science at Central European University, Hungary, and founding director of the Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies (DISC). Part of his research focuses on political regime transitions and qualities of democracies. His book 'The Consolidation of Democracy in Europe and Latin America' (Routledge, 2008) has been published with Routledge. His co- authored textbook 'Set-Theoretic Methods: A User's Guide for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy-Sets in the Social Sciences' is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Schneider has published in Comparative Sociology, Democratization, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and other journals. His current project assesses the impact of socioeconomic inequalities in different market economies on qualities of democracies. Schneider is member of the Young Academy of Science in Germany and he was a Kennedy fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University for the academic year 2009–2010.
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democratization
qualities of democracies
set-theoretic methods
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
comparative political methodology
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Publications
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The consolidation of democracy. Comparing Europe and Latin America. London: Routledge, 2008.
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Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) und Fuzzy Sets. Ein Lehrbuch fur Anwender und alle, die es werden wollen. Opladen and Farmington Hills: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2007.
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Patterns of consolidated democracies. Europe and Latin America compared. Florence: Thesis defended at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, 2004.
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"Standards guter Praxis in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) und Fuzzy-Sets." In Neue Entwicklungen und Anwendungen auf dem Gebiet der Methoden der vergleichenden Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft, edited by Gert Pickel, hans-Joachim Lauth and Detlef Jahn, 387-412. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 2009.
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"Qualitative Comparative Analysis und Fuzzy Sets." In Methoden der Politikwissenschaft: Neuere qualitative und quantitative Analyseverfahren, edited by Thomas Gschwend, Delia Schindler and Kai-Uwe Schnapp, 273-285. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2006.
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"Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fs/QCA): ein Zwei-Stufen-Modul." In Vergleichende politikwissenschaftliche Methoden – Neue Entwicklungen und Diskussionen, edited by Gert Pickel, hans-Joachim Lauth and Detlef Jahn, 105-134. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2003.
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"Korruption und Vertrauen in Implementationsinstitutionen: ein Vergleich Lateinamerikas mit konsolidierten Demokratien." In Rechtsstaat und Demokratie. Theoretische und empirische Studien zum Recht in der Demokratie, edited by hans-Joachim Lauth and Gert Pickel, 275-298. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2001.
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The Quality of Democracy in Eastern Europe: Public Preferences and Policy Reforms. Vol. 8. Perspectives on Politics 8, no. 3., 2010.
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Book review: Gary Goertz and Harvey Starr (eds.): Necessary Conditions: Theory, Methodology and Applications (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003) In Journal of Politics. Vol. 70., 2008.
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"Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy-Sets: Agenda for a Research Approach and a Data Analysis Technique." Comparative Sociology 9 (2010): 376-396.
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"Standards of Good Practice in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy-Sets." Comparative Sociology 9 (2010): 397-418.
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"An Introduction to Crisp-Set QCA, with a Comparison to Binary Logistic Regression." Political Research Quarterly 62, no. 4 (2009): 662-672.
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"Reducing Complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Remote and Proximate Factors and the Consolidation of Democracy." European Journal of Political Research 45 (2006): 751-786.
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"Liberalization, Transition and Consolidation. Measuring the Components of Democratization." Democratization 11 (2004): 59-90.
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"Prospects for the consolidation of Latin American democracies. rethinking the role of corrpution and institutional trust." Sociologia, Problemas e Praticas 42 (2003): 65-90.
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The fuzzy-set/QCA two-step approach to middle-range theories. Prepared for delivery at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2 - September 5, 2004, Chicago, 2004.
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